At 4.21 am (US time) on Saturday, a notification lit up screens across the world: President Donald Trump had posted on Truth Social that the United States had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Exactly ten minutes later, at 4.31 am, a New York Times reporter dialled the President’s cellphone.
“After three rings, we were talking,” Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent for the Times, revealed. “He said, ‘Hello,’ and I jumped right in.”
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The conversation lasted about 50 seconds.
Pager said he identified himself and told Trump he was calling from The New York Times with questions about the overnight operation in Venezuela.
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