Only private military contractors and local paid “rebel” groups then?

Congress? No! Troops in Venezuela!

except for the ones that already kidnapped the president

…So troops are going to Venezuela.

He has a pathological need to lie, even when he doesn’t need to. Congress would go along with what he says regardless of what it is, and he knows he loses nothing by lying about it. He probably thinks he’s gaining the element of surprise by lying about it.