US President Donald Trump said Thursday that additional charges could be brought against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
"He emptied his prisons in Venezuela, emptied his prisons into our country. And I hope that charge will be brought at some point, because that was a big charge that hasn't been brought yet, should be brought," Trump said at a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
His remarks came before Maduro appeared in a Manhattan federal courtroom, where he is seeking to dismiss drug trafficking charges, more than two months after he and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured by a US military operation in Caracas.
Trump said Maduro was "a major purveyor" of drugs coming into the US.
Maduro would be given "a fair trial," Trump said.
"But I would imagine there are other trials coming," he added, without giving details.
