'Astounding' White House social media post inundated with backlash

The White House ignited backlash on Monday when it took to social media to brag that President Donald Trump stands with Venezuelans and democracy after greenlighting a midnight mission to capture strongman Nicolás Maduro and bring him to the United States to face trial.

Maduro was seized in Caracas in a U.S.-led military-law enforcement operation and flown to New York, where he was in federal custody on narco-terrorism and drug-trafficking charges. He and his wife, Cilia Flores, were brought under tight security to court...