BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 3. The U.S. is going
to stay in Venezuela until such time as a proper transition can
take place, said US President Donald Trump during today's press
conference, Trend
reports.
"Not one piece of military equipment was lost, not one service
member was more importantly killed. The United States military is
the strongest and most fearsome military on the planet by far with
capabilities and skills our enemies can scarcely begin to imagine.
We have the best equipment anywhere in the world. There's no
equipment like what we have and you see that even if you just look
at the boats, you know, we've knocked out 97% of the drugs coming
in by sea, 90%. Each boat kills 25, on average, 25,000 people. We
knocked out 97% and those drugs mostly come from a place called
Venezuela," he said.
Trump emphasized that the U.S. is going to run Venezuela until
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 that we had for the last long period
of years. So we are going to run the country until such time as we
can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition. And it has to be
judicious because that's what we're all about. We want peace,
liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela, and that
includes many from Venezuela that are now living in the United
States and want to go back to their country. It's their homeland.
We can't take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela that
doesn't have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind. We've had
decades of that. We're not going to let that happen. We're there
now. And what people don't understand, but they understand as I say
this, we're there now, but we're going to stay until such time as
the proper transition can take place. So we're going to stay, we're
going to run it essentially until such time as a proper transition
can take place," President of the U.S. added.
