What Does It Mean to ‘Run’ Venezuela? Some Republicans Have No Idea.

As political questions emerge after the U.S. strike on Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro, Republican senators were hung up on a semantic one: What is the definition of “run”?

As in: What did President Donald Trump mean when he said the U.S. would “run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition” — and did he mean it at all?

“I think that’s a matter of interpretation,” Sen. Jim Risch, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told NOTUS.