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Donald Trump: “Venezuela opened their prisons and we took, we captured Maduro.”

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I look forward to you becoming a great banker for our country someday. No, these come from the roughest, some of the roughest places in the world. South America, all over Venezuela opened their prisons and we took, we captured Maduro. It took us a very short period of time. He was in a steel box so that this couldn't happen. And our guys went through that steal like it was paper mache. (01:12–01:17)

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Asserts that Venezuela opened their prisons and the U.S. captured Maduro.

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