Trump says US is ‘going to run’ Venezuela in interim.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said the U.S. planned to run Venezuela un­til a tran­si­tion of pow­er can take place.

He claimed the Amer­i­can pres­ence was al­ready in place, though there were no im­me­di­ate signs the U.S. was run­ning the coun­try. Venezue­lan state TV con­tin­ued to air pro-Maduro pro­pa­gan­da, broad­cast­ing live im­ages of sup­port­ers tak­ing to the streets in Cara­cas in protest.

The Unit­ed States cap­tured Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the coun­try in a stun­ning mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion ear­ly Sat­ur­day that plucked a sit­ting leader from of­fice — the cul­mi­na­tion of months of es­ca­lat­ing Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion pres­sure on the oil-rich South Amer­i­can na­tion.

Maduro and his wife, tak­en overnight from their home on a mil­i­tary base, were aboard a U.S. war­ship on their way to New York, where they were to face crim­i­nal charges.