President Trump says army rescued ‘horribly treated’ woman trapped overseas amid coronavirus crisis

President Donald Trump has revealed that a young woman who was ‘horribly accosted’ amid the coronavirus pandemic has been returned to the parents in the US in a secretive military operation. 

Trump refused to reveal the identity of the young American, saying only that ‘bad things were happening to her in a certain country’ after borders were shut down in a bid to stem the spread of the killer virus.

The president announced the news at a White House press conference on Sunday after complaints emerged of US citizens being stranded in foreign countries. 

Critics include Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider, who criticized Trump on Friday after launching an appeal to get his 23-year-old daughter Cheyenne back home from Peru.

In the press conference Trump announced: ‘We were able to get a young woman released from a certain area who was being horribly accosted, horribly treated.’ 

He said that General Mark Milley, the highest-ranking officer in the US military, ‘took care of it’ and that he ‘does not play games.’

‘We went in and we got her out, but that was rough stuff,’ he said.   

Trump refused to go into more detail, saying that it was being kept ‘somewhat private.’

He said: ‘We got her out and she’s OK, and she’s back with her parents.’  

Trump said that General Mark Milley, the highest-ranking officer in the US military, ‘took care of it’ and that he ‘does not play games’

 He thanked Milley ‘and all the people involved and people who went in to get her.’ 

The president also announced that efforts were being made to bring US citizens home who are stranded in Peru and Honduras, with the co-operation of the countries’ governments.

Some American citizens have been unable to return to the US as countries around the globe enforce measures such as travel restrictions in order to tackle the rapid spread of COVID-19.

On Friday Rock star Snider shared a plea in a video posted on Facebook for assistance in bringing his daughter home and took the country of Peru, as well as the US government, to task for ‘hanging people out to dry’ as many countries shut their borders.    

Stranded: Twisted Sister rocker Dee Snider begged for help to get his 23-year-old daughter back from Peru where she is stranded after the country closed its borders because of coronavirus, in a Facebook video on Friday

Trapped: Cheyenne was traveling alone on a spiritual retreat in Peru and got stranded Five days before she was scheduled to return home Peru shut its borders due to the coronavirus

 A former contestant on Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice, Snider called the president’s response to the pandemic a ‘mockery’ and said he would rather vote for a ‘baked potato’ than cast his ballot for Trump in November.  

In the video he said: ‘There are literally thousands of American citizens stuck in foreign countries under quarantine and not being allowed to return home.

‘I know this because my daughter Shy, or Cheyenne, is one of over 800 stuck in Peru right now. The borders have been closed and there are no flights going out. They are not being let out.’

 Five days before Cheyenne was set to return home from her solo spiritual retreat, the President of Peru abruptly shut down the borders to halt the spread of novel coronavirus.

Snider explains in the video that despite foreign citizens now being allowed to return home, the country doesn’t have adequate infrastructure to get them quickly and safely to the airport in Lima. 

He said of the US: ‘You can’t just leave people hanging out to dry in foreign countries because they didn’t get back fast enough.’