American mercenary detained in Venezuela was misled into thinking the Trump administration backed th

[Judi Lynn]

American mercenary detained in Venezuela was misled into thinking the Trump administration backed the failed coup and was told Maduro would be extracted by a DEA helicopter, his friends claim

By FRANCES MULRANEY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 14:21 EDT, 15 May 2020 | UPDATED: 15:10 EDT, 15 May 2020

The family and friends of a former Green Beret detained in Venezuela for his role in a failed coup have said he was misled into believing it had the direct backing of President Donald Trump.

A childhood friend claims that Luke Denman, 34, believed the Drugs Enforcement Agency was in on the plot and that they would send in a helicopter to fly Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro back to the United States, according to the Wall Street Journal.

'He messaged at one point or another, they had gotten the green light from Trump,' said Daniel Dochen, who told the WSJ that he last spoke to Denman a week or two before the start of the mission in early May.

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Smith, an attorney, alleges that Denman told him the raid was fully sanctioned by the U.S. government.

'I had asked him one time to shoot me the contract so I could look it over to make sure he wasn't getting into something crazy,' he said, but added that he never saw the contract.

More:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8324025/Keystone-coup-Detained-former-soldier-believed-failed-Venezuela-coup-backing-U-S-government.html

[Dan]

1. Well my thoughts are

The Venezuelan government should do to him exactly what the American government would do to any other mercenary that tried to actively overthrow our government.

[Laelth]

2. Misled? Why do I doubt that? n/t

-Laelth

[Turbineguy]

3. Another trump supporter finds out

he's been bamboozled

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Trump's Bay of Pigs . . . . . .

[SeattleVet]

8. tRump's Bay of Chauvinist Pigs.

[The Magistrate]

5. This Thing Just Gets More And More Absurd, Ma'am

And the funniest thing is that what he told his people cannot be ruled out of hand.

This also establishes that the content of the confession he made to Venezuelan authorities was not something he knew was untrue and was coerced into saying. There may well have been coercion involved in his confession, probably there was, but its content, which as you know I initially considered suspect, clearly from this was what the man believed he was involved in.

[rampartc]

6. opsec!

what kind of "mercenary" tells his buddies he is going on a secret mission?

[brush]

7. The notion that the US wasn't involved...Plaese!