Project Gideon, the Failed Toppling of a Venezuelan Dictator
A Series On Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Brazil was only one of many operations that targeted a Democracy after a free and fair election when authoritarians connected to Trump ran his playbook.
Let’s go back a bit to before the GOP-led Insurrection on our nation’s Capitol to a smaller scale test run on foreign soil, Project Gideon, May 3, 2020, by American militants for hire, Silvercorp owned by Jordan Gourdreau an ex-US Special Forces trained soldier looking to oust Maduro of Venezuela.
Maduro, an strong-arm authoritarian leader had secured an election win that the US and at least fifty nations didn’t recognize. Juan Guaido declared himself Interim President. A plot was hatched in the US, a contract signed October 16, 2019 to remove Maduro. Training began in Columbia. Guaido denies everything.
The whole affair was doomed before the boats ever made landing with the attack details broadcast March 28 on the Venezuelan news while the men were still training. They still attempted the attack May 22. The first ship’s crew of eight saw six slaughtered while the other ship broken down that included the two Americans seen above captured.
For whatever reason, the two captured Americans thought the mission had the backing of the US government. No idea on why they would think that.
It isn’t like there were some hints, right?
Or this.
This failed toppling of another government was one of the many things that Democrats didn’t get to investigating surrounding Trump’s messy four years marked by never ending rolls of one crisis to another. While the Trump administration denied any involvement in the made for TV failed Coup, the men suckered into the operation certainly believed they were doing so on the express consent and approval of the US government.
This latest aggression in Brazil, an embarrassment given that their government handled the thugs arresting most of them because Tump had taken away the weapons from the US Capitol defenders, to must be scrutinized with US co-conspirators like Bannon who had pushed extensively for this, locked up permanently.
Seriously, start Bannon’s suspended six-month sentence tomorrow.
Here is a reminder of how Trump crippled US response to January 6th.
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