During his appearance, he shared the first photograph of the Chavista leader, who appears handcuffed, with his eyes and ears covered, aboard the USS Iwo Jima, the military vessel responsible for his transfer prior to his arrival in New York, where he would be sentenced for drug trafficking.

“Nicolas Maduro aboard the USS Iwo Jima,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, accompanied by an image showing Maduro standing, dressed in a gray Nike sports jacket, with a blindfold and earplugs, while holding a water bottle with his cuffed hands.

Besides him, one of the DEA agents who participated in the capture operation can also be seen in the released photograph.

“They're on their way to New York. They've been indicted in New York. They were taken first to a ship, the Iwo Jima, and they'll continue on to New York. York. The helicopters took them. A good flight, I'm sure they loved it,” Trump said in the interview.

Although the president did not want to go into details about the operation carried out by the special forces, he did emphasize that it was a “detailed” capture operation, in which they “practiced everything” and even “built a house just like the one they went to,” with the same armor plating and reinforced security measures as the place, the hallways, or the stairwells they had to. use.