Donald Trump says the United States will govern Venezuela indefinitely after sending in special forces to snatch the country’s president as he slept.

Addressing journalists hours after the shocking capture of Nicolas Maduro and wife Cilia in Caracas on Saturday, the president said: ‘We’re going to run the country until as such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.

‘We don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation as we had for the last long number of years.

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