President Donald Trump declined to answer a question from a reporter—only to instantly forget and then confirm exactly what she’d just asked him.

During the flight back to D.C. from his Mar-a-Lago holiday stay on Sunday, a reporter asked Trump aboard Air Force One: “The New York Times reported you spoke with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Did you?”

“I don’t want to comment on it,” he said before adding, without pause: “The answer is yes.”

Over the past several weeks, the Trump administration has launched a sweeping military campaign against narcotrafficking operations in the Caribbean Sea, which legal experts say very likely represents an ongoing violation of both domestic and international law.

The president has repeatedly targeted the Maduro regime, even labeling the Venezuel

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