The President's News Conference in Palm Beach, Florida, January 3, 2026

… <p>And if you think about it, we've done some other good ones, like the attack on Soleimani, the attack on al-Baghdadi, and the obliteration and decimation of the Iran nuclear sites just recently in an operation known as Midnight Hammer, all perfectly executed and done.</p> <p>No nation in the world could achieve what America achieved yesterday or, frankly, in just a short period of time. All Venezuelan military capacities were rendered powerless as the men and women of our military, working with U.S. law enforcement, successfully captured Maduro in the dead of night. It was dark. The lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have. It was dark, and it was deadly. But captured along with his wife Cilia Flores, both of whom now face American justice.</p> <p>Maduro and Flores have been indicted in the Southern District of New York—it's Jay Clayton—for their campaign of deadly narcoterrorism against the United States and its citizens.</p> …