Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday blasted the Miami Herald for publishing what he called a “fake story” about an alleged U.S. military strike on Venezuela.
The paper had cited unnamed officials claiming the U.S. was preparing to hit targets tied to Nicolás Maduro’s regime, but Rubio dismissed the report as false and driven by misinformation from anonymous sources.
“Your ‘sources’ claiming to have ‘knowledge of the situation’ tricked you into writing a fake story,” Rubio wrote Friday night on X.
Your “sources” claiming to have “knowledge of the situation” tricked you into writing a fake story https://t.co/YCIVkZaTiz
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) October 31, 2025
President Trump also confirmed on Friday that he is not considering strikes.
Despite Trump’s comments, Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is urging America’s top adversaries—Russia, China, and Iran—to defend his regime. Documents reviewed by The Washington Post show Maduro requested urgent military aid, including a letter to China’s Xi Jinping seeking “expanded military cooperation” to counter rising tensions with the U.S.
