President Donald Trump said the U.S. would run Venezuela until a leadership transition could be organized, hours after a U.S. operation captured leader Nicolás Maduro, ousting the strongman from power and delivering him to U.S. soil late Saturday.

"We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. "So we don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years.”

Trump offered almost no details on how the U.S. would "run” a sovereign nation when its vice president, legislature and military were still in place and publicly opposing the U.S. move. He said it would include deploying U.S. oil companies to the country, though he indicated that his embargo "on all Venezuelan oil remains in full effect” and that U.S. forces would stay on alert.

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