U.S. Captures Maduro in Daring Raid, Runs Venezuela Until Transition | Good News (Even Better Than Reported) | 1/5/26

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Aaron kicks off 2026 with the stunning U.S. military raid that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Caracas—Trump announces America will run the country until a proper transition, massive 20% drop in U.S. homicides brings rates near record lows, HHS freezes Minnesota child-care payments amid explosive Somali fraud allegations, Ninth Circuit strikes down California open-carry ban, Iranian protests rage, NYC swears in socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani, and more.

Maduro captured, Venezuela raid, Trump runs Venezuela, homicide rate drop, Somali fraud Minnesota, child care scam, California open carry, Iran protests, Zohran Mamdani mayor, Marco Rubio

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0:00.0	It's Monday, January 5th, 2025.
0:02.0	You cannot run, you cannot hide from the United States Armed Forces,
0:05.0	breaking containment in the North Star State,
0:08.0	and good news even better than you might have thought.
0:11.0	Next on the AM Update.
0:16.0	Happy New Year.
0:35.6	MIRDA, Mariko, it's a Prendo, and this nirda, you? Those were those were some of the sounds heard overnight, Friday into Saturday, early on Saturday morning over Caracas, Venezuela. As the United States carried out a strike, which ended up with the
0:39.1	capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro. American forces conducted a large-scale strike in
0:45.3	Venezuela, where Maduro and his wife were captured and transported on the USS Iwo Jima,
0:50.4	following the operation. Trump announced the United States is going to run Venezuela until a proper
0:55.6	transition can take place. He made these comments about 10 hours after the successful raid.
1:02.6	We don't want to be involved with having somebody else get in and we have the same situation
1:08.7	that we had for the last long period of years.
1:11.6	So we are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.
1:19.6	And it has to be judicious because that's what we're all about.
1:25.6	We want peace, liberty and justice for the great people of Venezuela,
1:31.3	and that includes many from Venezuela that are now living in the United States
1:36.5	and want to go back to their country.
1:40.2	It's their homeland.
1:42.2	We can't take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela
1:46.0	that doesn't have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind.
1:50.0	We've had decades of that.
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