President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military carried out a "large-scale strike" in Venezuela early Saturday morning and took Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife into custody.

After removing President Nicolas Maduro from power, the Trump administration ‌is gambling ​that it can intimidate the Venezuelan leader's inner circle into toeing the ‌U.S. line with threats of further military action that could put them at risk of a similar fate,