Fox News Host Claims Trump's 'Gunboat Diplomacy Is Going To End Up With No Maduro And a Venezuela Aligned With Us'

Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed that the Trump administration is getting close to ousting the Venezuelan regime, anticipating that the initiative is "going to end up with no Maduro and a Venezuela aligned with us."

In a passage of his show, Watters detailed the U.S.'s deployment of troops and vessels in the Caribbean, including flyovers and training exercises off the country's coast, as well as strikes on alleged drug boats.

He went on to recall a report by The New York Times claiming that the Maduro regime offered the Trump administration for the U.S. companies to get preferential access to the country's oil, gold and other industries, but they rejected all offers.

According to Watters, Trump's "gunboat diplomacy is going to end up with no Maduro and a Venezuela aligned with us, not Putin or Xi."

"No one wants a messy conflict in South America. Maduro controls drug traffickers who are pretty strapped. And Biden let hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans into the country. They could be activated. But if Trump can pull this off and kick China and Russia from Venezuela, after what he did in Iran, it will give him a lot of power to deter Russia in Ukraine and China in Taiwan," Watters concluded.

The claims by Watters, whose network is closely aligned with the Trump administration, follow another report detailing that top Venezuelan officials twice offered the Trump administration ousting Maduro and undergoing a transition.

The offer, presented by siblings Jorge and Delcy Rodriguez, involved ousting Maduro but remaining in power as a "more acceptable" alternative.

The Miami Herald article claimed that mediators presented two offers to the Trump administration through Qatar in April and September. In them, Delcy Rodriguez would be the continuity figure and retired general Miguel Rodriguez Torres, who is currently in exile, would lead a transitional government.

However, the outlet claimed that the Trump administration dismissed the offers, concluding they sought to preserve the regime's criminal structure by laundering its image. "The 'Cartel Lite' was not a viable option," one source told the Herald. The Trump administration then rejected any negotiation involving regime officials sanctioned by the U.S. or tied to the regime in any other way.

Delcy Rodriguez rejected the report, saying in a Telegram channel that it was "FAKE." "Another outlet joining the pile of trash that is this psychological warfare against the Venezuelan people. They have no ethics nor morale and exclusively favor lies and garbage," she added.

The message goes on to claim that the "Bolivarian revolution has a tight military brass, which is united around the people's will." "Together and united around President maduro," she concluded.