Ben Reacts: The U.S. Takes Down Maduro
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
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🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All righty, folks. So, as you can tell, this is not a normal broadcast, but then again, it wasn't a normal day in American history. |
| 0:10.5 | The United States, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, has just deposed Nicholas Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela. |
| 0:17.6 | So first, the fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, in the early hours of Saturday morning explosions rang out in the Venezuela. So first, the fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, in the early hours of |
| 0:22.2 | Saturday morning explosions rang out in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. By the time the sun |
| 0:27.4 | rose in Caracas, Maduro's nearly 13-year grip on power had ended, and handcuffs blindfolded |
| 0:32.6 | wearing a gray sweatsuit who was on a U.S. warship on his way to New York City to face |
| 0:36.6 | narco-terrorism charges following a five-hour operation. It was a a U.S. warship on his way to New York City to face narco-terrorism charges following a |
| 0:38.5 | five-hour operation. It was a very complex operation. It had been planned apparently for months. |
| 0:45.3 | According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump concluded that Maduro indicted in the United States in 2020 |
| 0:49.9 | needed to face justice and that his supporters would still back his decision, according to administration |
| 0:54.7 | officials. President Trump demanded that all of this be held closely in order to achieve the |
| 0:59.8 | element of surprise again. This would make the second massive foreign policy decision that is |
| 1:05.1 | essentially an in-and-out operation from the Trump administration changing the nature of geopolitics |
| 1:10.4 | on an extraordinary scale, |
| 1:12.0 | which we'll get to in a minute. |
| 1:13.7 | Apparently, the United States had everything ready by late December, but President Trump |
| 1:17.9 | was hoping that Maduro would just relinquish power on his own. |
| 1:21.0 | And then when that didn't happen, then the U.S. got ready. |
| 1:23.5 | So apparently the U.S. tried several times to launch an extraction mission, including on Christmas and on New Year's Day. But weather prevented all of that. At 10.46 p.m. on Friday, |
| 1:33.6 | Operation Absolute Resolve became a go. In a makeshhip secure facility at Maralago, according to the |
| 1:39.1 | Wall Street Journal, President Trump watched one of the greatest gambols of his two presidencies unfold, |
| 1:43.4 | flanked by top aides, |
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