Venezuela's Maduro: Americans captured in failed coup plot

[Frankfooter]

Wacko story here, Venezuela arrested dozens of people including 2 Americans after a 'beach invasion' allegedly to take over the country in a coup.

Venezuela's Maduro: Americans captured in failed coup plot

Venezuelan security forces arrested dozens of people, including two Americans, after a beach invasion allegedly aimed at overthrowing President Nicolas Maduro - a plot said to involve US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the Venezuela situation "has nothing to do with our government".

"We'll find out. We just heard about it," Trump said when asked about the incident and the Americans' arrest.

Maduro held up a pair of blue US passports, reading off the names and birth dates on them in a nationwide broadcast on state television on Monday.

He showed images of the fishing boats the alleged attackers rode in on and equipment such as walkie-talkies and night-vision glasses. He blamed the attacks on the Trump administration and neighbouring Colombia, both of which have denied involvement.

"The United States government is fully and completely involved in this defeated raid," Maduro said, praising members of a fishing village for cornering one group and netting the "professional American mercenaries".

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...-nabbed-failed-coup-plot-200505025057889.html

 

[mandrill]

Stay tuned for "these fine people" making statements on Venezuelan TV implicating Mike Pompeo and the US Dept of State and CIA and a subsequent investigative journalist piece in the WaPo or NYT showing that Koch, Devos and Mercer funds were used to finance the invasion.

 

[Frankfooter]

Stay tuned for "these fine people" making statements on Venezuelan TV implicating Mike Pompeo and the US Dept of State and CIA and a subsequent investigative journalist piece in the WaPo or NYT showing that Koch, Devos and Mercer funds were used to finance the invasion.

Phase 1, Trump denies it has anything to do with him.
Donald Trump denies link to Venezuela armed raid by US citizens

And here's the guy behind it in a photo with Trump where he claims he was hired to do security.
The moron behind it apparently even posted a video about his operation.
Apparently he signed a contract for $200 million with the Venezuelan opposition but they never paid him.
But he attacked anyways.
OMG.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/202...f-venezuela-brought-to-you-by-silvercorp-usa/

 

[Boober69]

Phase 1, Trump denies it has anything to do with him.
Donald Trump denies link to Venezuela armed raid by US citizens

And here's the guy behind it in a photo with Trump where he claims he was hired to do security.
The moron behind it apparently even posted a video about his operation.
Apparently he signed a contract for $200 million with the Venezuelan opposition but they never paid him.
But he attacked anyways.
OMG.

Sure...because if the US was going to conduct a covert raid to overthrow a leader of a country they would ensure that their operatives had ID with them and some nifty fishing boats. Oh yes, they would also need to be retired from the military for almost a decade.

It's funny how you rush to socialist regimes' defence...first China now Venezuela...you're 2 for 2!

ps TDS: Venezuela Edition

 

[Knuckle Ball]

Sure...because if the US was going to conduct a covert raid to overthrow a leader of a country they would ensure that their operatives had ID with them and some nifty fishing boats. Oh yes, they would also need to be retired from the military for almost a decade.

It's funny how you rush to socialist regimes' defence...first China now Venezuela...you're 2 for 2!

ps TDS: Venezuela Edition

If you wanted to competently overthrow a foreign government then you might have a point...but we’re talking about the administration who put Rudy Giuliani in charge of the Ukraine shakedown.

Everything Trump touches turns into a cluster fuck. Why would invading Venezuela be different?

 

[Frankfooter]

Sure...because if the US was going to conduct a covert raid to overthrow a leader of a country they would ensure that their operatives had ID with them and some nifty fishing boats. Oh yes, they would also need to be retired from the military for almost a decade.

It's funny how you rush to socialist regimes' defence...first China now Venezuela...you're 2 for 2!

ps TDS: Venezuela Edition

I know that the dementia is destroying your memory, boob, so let me remind you.
2018
Trump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers
2019
Trump team jumps to support Venezuela uprising

Now, despite this being a total fucking clown show failure and thus looking exactly like something Trump would back, there isn't any evidence he's linked to it yet.
Just because buddy who organized it was bestest pals with Trump's main security guy doesn't prove it.

But it really looks like the kind of total failure your orange makeup wearing clown face would plan.

 

[Boober69]

I know that the dementia is destroying your memory, boob, so let me remind you.
2018
Trump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers
2019
Trump team jumps to support Venezuela uprising

Now, despite this being a total fucking clown show failure and thus looking exactly like something Trump would back, there isn't any evidence he's linked to it yet.
Just because buddy who organized it was bestest pals with Trump's main security guy doesn't prove it.

But it really looks like the kind of total failure your orange makeup wearing clown face would plan.

Not really...it looks like another failed conspiracy theory you so desperately look for.

 

[Boober69]

Why would invading Venezuela be different?

...probably because it's a figment of your imagination...again.

 

[Knuckle Ball]

...probably because it's a figment of your imagination...again.

I’m not saying that Trump or the US had anything to do with this. We don’t know that to be true, false, or otherwise.

But your claim that Trump could never be involved in such a poorly thought out plan is kinda funny. This is exactly the kind of shit show that Trump always creates.

If Trump was involved in this coup attempt this is precisely what it would look like.

 

[Boober69]

I’m not saying that Trump or the US had anything to do with this. We don’t know that to be true, false, or otherwise.

But your claim that Trump could never be involved in such a poorly thought out plan is kinda funny. This is exactly the kind of shit show that Trump always creates.

If Trump was involved in this coup attempt this is precisely what it would look like.

Well if ifs and buts were candies and nuts...

 

[nottyboi]

They should waterboard them live on tv for Americans to watch

 

[Frankfooter]

They should waterboard them live on tv for Americans to watch

That's the murican way.

Trump last month.

Trump Sets the Stage for Coup in Venezuela
The real goal of military buildup is to oust Maduro, not fight drugs.

“We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircraft, and helicopters; Coast Guard cutters; and Air Force surveillance aircraft, doubling our capabilities in the region,” President Trump announced in a press briefing at the White House on April 1.

Administration officials say they are increasing the U.S. military presence to deter the flow of drugs into the United States. But they acknowledge being particularly focused on Maduro, whom the Justice Department indicted at the end of March on drug trafficking charges.

Maduro denies the charges, saying they are part of a politically motivated plan to undermine his leadership and overthrow the Venezuelan government.

It is no secret that the Trump Administration has been trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government. In February, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boasted in a major address that the administration is “leading a fifty-nine-nation coalition to oust Maduro.”

https://progressive.org/dispatches/trump-sets-stage-coup-venezuela-hunt-200413/

Totally a coincidence that a buddy of Trump's bodyguard did a cartoony disaster of an attack on Venezuela, right?

 

[danmand]

Anybody who is not criminally stupid knows that it was a failed coup by USA.

Maybe Trump did what Kennedy did after the Bay of Pigs fiasco: Hung them out to dry.

 

[nottyboi]

That's the murican way.

Trump last month.


https://progressive.org/dispatches/trump-sets-stage-coup-venezuela-hunt-200413/

Totally a coincidence that a buddy of Trump's bodyguard did a cartoony disaster of an attack on Venezuela, right?

Firstly I am strongly against torture, but a statement has to be made . What Venezuela should do, is use the US manual on enhanced interogation techniques and and webcast it live globally to show the world what the US is actually doing and has approved. It would be a massive propaganda coup. They have the legal right to shoot these guys as spies. So this would be a preferable route.

 

[anon1]

I heard it wasn't a coup attempt but an assassination squad.

 

[Frankfooter]

Firstly I am strongly against torture, but a statement has to be made . What Venezuela should do, is use the US manual on enhanced interogation techniques and and webcast it live globally to show the world what the US is actually doing and has approved. It would be a massive propaganda coup. They have the legal right to shoot these guys as spies. So this would be a preferable route.

I don't think they'll need to torture them, they sound like total morons. The idiots were live tweeting about their attack on Venezuela as it happened. They probably were carrying diaries and full receipts for taxes later.
Which really makes them sound exactly like the kind of morons Trump and Guiliani would hire.

State Department says Giuliani was freelancing in Venezuela

Giuliani lobbied DOJ for Venezuelan businessman who claimed to help Guaidó: report

I'm sure Giuliani was looking for new goons since his last team of crack investigators failed so bad they got Trump impeached and themselves arrested.

Maduro says that they were watching these morons, had inside men, and knew everything. Maduro says it was supported by the US as an anti-drug operation.
If so, this will blow up.

This article is good.

Sure, Let's Try To Overthrow Venezuela. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

 

[Knuckle Ball]

I don't think they'll need to torture them, they sound like total morons. The idiots were live tweeting about their attack on Venezuela as it happened. They probably were carrying diaries and full receipts for taxes later.
Which really makes them sound exactly like the kind of morons Trump and Guiliani would hire.

State Department says Giuliani was freelancing in Venezuela

Giuliani lobbied DOJ for Venezuelan businessman who claimed to help Guaidó: report

I'm sure Giuliani was looking for new goons since his last team of crack investigators failed so bad they got Trump impeached and themselves arrested.

Maduro says that they were watching these morons, had inside men, and knew everything. Maduro says it was supported by the US as an anti-drug operation.
If so, this will blow up.

This article is good.

Sure, Let's Try To Overthrow Venezuela. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

LOL...I knew Rudy’s name would turn up somewhere in this giant steaming shitpile. No Trump clusterfuck is complete without the involvement of Rudy Giuliani.

 

[onthebottom]

Why would the US bother to overthrow Venezuela, it’s a shining example of Socialism in action. Why take a lesson away from the world.

 

[Knuckle Ball]

Why would the US bother to overthrow Venezuela, it’s a shining example of Socialism in action. Why take a lesson away from the world.

Good question! You should ask Trump about that.

 

[danmand]

Why would the US bother to overthrow Venezuela, it’s a shining example of Socialism in action. Why take a lesson away from the world.

Is that the only thing about USA that does not make sense to you?