White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just reminded everyone that the US military attack on Venezuela and the capture of Dictator Nicolás Maduro is actually President Trump keeping a campaign promise he made.
She explains below:
President Trump is a decisive and strong leader who does EXACTLY what he says he’s going to do.
During his historic campaign in 2024, President Trump explicitly promised that he would work to “demolish foreign drug cartels” to keep our citizens safe and that’s exactly what he did today through an unprecedented display of speed, precision, and power.
As the Administration has been saying for months, Nicolás Maduro was not the legitimate President of Venezuela – he was the fugitive head of a narco-terrorist cartel who flooded the United States of America with deadly drugs and sent thousands of vicious illegal alien thugs to destabilize our country and harm its people.
That’s why Maduro was indicted in the United States and finally captured early this morning where he will face the full weight of the American justice system.
Joe Biden pathetically sat by and allowed our country to become a dumping ground for corrupt regimes in countries like Venezuela.
President Trump will NEVER allow that to happen again.
That’s what America First is all about.
President Trump has no greater responsibility than to defend the safety and security of the American people and fearlessly advance our interests, and he will never waver in doing so.
In his inaugural address, President Trump pledged that America would “reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on earth.”
Promises Made, Promises Kept.
President Trump is a decisive and strong leader who does EXACTLY what he says he’s going to do.
During his historic campaign in 2024, President Trump explicitly promised that he would work to “demolish foreign drug cartels” to keep our citizens safe and that’s exactly what he… pic.twitter.com/2oz4rEwLfn
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) January 3, 2026
