Posted on 08/18/2018 3:10:38 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich
Thanks. I’m hoping there aren’t any bad storms. I ran into one in Ohio on the way home a few years ago. Taking a rental car. Would be afraid to take my old clunker out of state.
Interesting... Clinton buddy Branson’s apparently been involved in a weird little op or wanna-be op including FARC and a FORMER Trump security guard...
Smells like another attack on Trump disguised as a supposed effort to be rid of Maduro but may be an October surprise type op. One of the ringleaders has been arrested in the states..
What do you make of this?
One of those involved was also involved in the hurricane aftermath in Puerto Rico.
Green Beret veteran of Iraq with a startup security company...just weird.
Interesting... Clinton buddy Branson’s apparently been involved in a weird little op or wanna-be op including FARC and a FORMER Trump security guard...
Smells like another attack on Trump disguised as a supposed effort to be rid of Maduro but may be an October surprise type op. One of the ringleaders has been arrested in the states..
What do you make of this?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8279435/Secret-military-operation-led-ex-Green-Beret-ouster-Venezuelas-Maduro-fails.html
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Vvery well could be...I have confidence PDJT knows about it...read Carlos Osweda Twitter. PDJT knows Sun Tzu.
“He was always chasing the golden BB,” said Drew White, a former business partner at Silvercorp, using military slang for a one-in-a-million shot. White said he broke with his former special forces comrade last fall when Goudreau asked for help raising money to fund his regime change initiative. “As supportive as you want to be as a friend, his head wasn’t in the world of reality," said White. "Nothing he said lined up.” According to White, Goudreau came back from the concert looking to capitalize on the Trump administration’s growing interest in toppling Maduro. He had been introduced to Keith Schiller, President Donald Trump’s longtime bodyguard, through someone who worked in private security. Schiller attended a March 2019 event at the University Club in Washington for potential donors with activist Lester Toledo, then Guaidó’s coordinator for the delivery of humanitarian aid. Last May, Goudreau accompanied Schiller to a meeting in Miami with representatives of Guaidó. There was a lively discussion with Schiller about the need to beef up security for Guaidó and his growing team of advisers inside Venezuela and across the world, according to a person familiar with the meeting. Schiller thought Goudreau was naive and in over his head. He cut off all contact following the meeting, said a person close to the former White House official. In Bogota, it was Toledo who introduced Goudreau to a rebellious former Venezuelan military officer the American would come to trust above all others — Cliver Alcalá, ringleader of the Venezuelan military deserters. . .Goudreau told participants at the meeting that he had high-level contacts in the Trump administration who could assist the effort, although he offered few details, the three people said. Over time, many of the people involved in the plan to overthrow Maduro would come to doubt his word. . .Guaidó’s envoys, including Toledo, ended contact with Goudreau after the Bogota meeting because they believed it was a suicide mission, according to three people close to the opposition leader. Undeterred, Goudreau returned to Colombia with four associates, all of them U.S. combat veterans, and begin working directly with Alcalá. . .Many saw the plan as foolhardy and there appears to have been no serious attempt to seek U.S. military support . .“Unfortunately, there’s a lot of cowboys in this business who try to peddle their military credentials into a big pay day,” said Mattos.. When the Colombians checked with their CIA counterparts in Bogota, they were told that the former Green Beret was never an agent. Alcalá was then told by his hosts to stop talking about an invasion or face expulsion, the former Colombian official said. It’s unclear where Alcalá and Goudreau got their backing, and whatever money was collected for the initiative appears to have been meager. One person who allegedly promised support was Roen Kraft, an eccentric descendant of the cheese-making family who — along with former Trump bodyguard Schiller — was among those meeting with opposition envoys in Miami and Washington. . .: Ex-Green Beret led failed attempt to oust Venezuela's Maduro
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