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President Trump denies ties to Venezuelan attack with 2 US men jailed (Pres Added)
AP ^ | 5/5/2020 | BY SCOTT SMITH AND JOSHUA GOODMAN / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 05/05/2020 2:39:47 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with an alleged incursion into Venezuela that landed two U.S. citizens behind bars in the crisis-stricken South American nation.

Trump said he had just learned of the detention of the pair, accused by Venezuela of being mercenaries. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said they were part of an operation to kill him that was backed by neighboring Colombia and the United States.

“Whatever it is, we’ll let you know,” Trump told reporters in Washington before departing from the White House to Arizona. “But it has nothing to do with our government.”

Authorities in Venezuela identified the two men as Luke Denman and Airan Berry, both former U.S. special forces soldiers associated with the Florida-based private security firm Silvercorp USA.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airanberry; lukedenman; silvercorp; silvercorpusa; venezuela
video of people arrested via msn

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1 posted on 05/05/2020 2:39:47 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

A couple of Americans in something like 200 other mercenaries actually thought they were going to overthrow the government?!


2 posted on 05/05/2020 2:42:01 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: RomanSoldier19

What a shame they failed.


3 posted on 05/05/2020 2:42:30 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: RomanSoldier19

That attempted coup happened months and months ago. I was wondering why is the capture of two Americans being announced just now? If they were connected, seems they would have left as soon as failure of the project became clear, not eight months later.


4 posted on 05/05/2020 2:46:17 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: RomanSoldier19

Iran-Contra II


5 posted on 05/05/2020 2:48:56 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

This is NOT what is going on but the MSM is going to paint Trump with it.
This was the real Nov Surprise they were planning until this shutdown happened.


6 posted on 05/05/2020 2:50:30 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: RomanSoldier19
Makes your wonder who paid for this #FakeInvasion.
7 posted on 05/05/2020 2:52:42 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden's still Hidin)
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To: Reno89519

Led from afar by a Canadian-born Green Beret who boasts of several medals and who was at one point in trouble with the military for a $62,000 discrepancy- a guy with a French name and a company in Florida that has a name SilvercorpUSA, similar to that of a Chinese mining company named Silvercorp... and who reportedly was in on it with a guy currently who turned himself in and is sitting in a US Prison on narcotics smuggling charges.


8 posted on 05/05/2020 2:52:49 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: lee martell

Second coup I think... they got nailed trying to conduct a half baked amphibious assault on Caracas this week.


9 posted on 05/05/2020 2:53:45 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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10 posted on 05/05/2020 2:56:39 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: piasa

Interesting times we live in... Canada’s Trudeau looks like Fidel Castro’s love Child and a Canadian born US Green Beret tries to arrange an invasion of Venezuela only to be foiled by his own stupidity and Maduro’s Cuban staffed Intel agencies.


11 posted on 05/05/2020 2:57:31 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

If the US was in on it, Maduro would be behind bars by now or just a grease spot somewhere.


12 posted on 05/05/2020 3:12:37 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: virgil

Maduro would be a pair of smoking shoes if this were serious


13 posted on 05/05/2020 3:14:30 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: virgil

Ask Noriega or Saddam Hussein what happens when the US wants you.


14 posted on 05/05/2020 3:20:44 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: RomanSoldier19

Media will jump all over it saying Trump tried to oust him.


15 posted on 05/05/2020 3:25:14 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Saw the video this morning.

Venezuela was displaying a US passport that allegedly was of one of the two men.

Now, can anybody chime-in and tell me what special operations soldier goes on a clandestine mission, mercenary or not, carrying a passport?


16 posted on 05/05/2020 4:13:38 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Screw journalists.)
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To: Reno89519

Nah - they thought they would make a lot of money for scratching the itch that says they gotta go try to kill something because when they were active duty, they found they liked it....and the itch kept returning...


17 posted on 05/06/2020 2:40:08 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: SkyDancer
Media will jump all over it saying Trump tried to oust him.

Hi SD. Yes they will. I wonder when Schiff for brains, will hold impeachment hearings on it?

18 posted on 05/06/2020 3:03:27 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force Officer, who graduated from Air Force pilot training, on 1 May 2020)
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