Trump denies plot in Venezuela, says would use 'invasion'

• If I wanted to go into Venezuela I wouldn't make a secret about it
• I'd go in and they would do nothing about it. They would roll over. I wouldn't send a small little group. No, no, no.

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States was not behind a failed covert plot in Venezuela allegedly involving two Americans, but that if he did order an attack it would be an open "invasion."

"If I wanted to go into Venezuela I wouldn't make a secret about it," he told Fox News.

"I'd go in and they would do nothing about it. They would roll over. I wouldn't send a small little group. No, no, no. It would be called an army," he said. "It would be called an invasion."