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Claims (41)
Donald Trump appointed
John Bolton documented
“to shake hands with him saying this is a historic moment. So this was basically a Pence, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo staged coup. Trump was not in favor of any of it. And notice that John Bolton, who is the national security advisor for the Tr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 4:04
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua documented
“Argentina or Venezuela. The White House interventionist policies toward Latin America was further articulated in a landmark address Bolton delivered that November. He was speaking at Miami Dade University. Bolton vowed Trump's administratio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 19:37
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba documented
“Argentina or Venezuela. The White House interventionist policies toward Latin America was further articulated in a landmark address Bolton delivered that November. He was speaking at Miami Dade University. Bolton vowed Trump's administratio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 19:37
Donald Trump appointed
John Bolton documented
“a key electoral prize for an U.S. candidate. Trump eventually enabled Washington's most notorious group to commandeer his approach to Latin America and the Caribbean. In April 2018, he shocked many of his supporters by appointing notorious …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 16:18
Donald Trump removed_from_power
John Bolton documented
“in February 2019. While Bolton's treacherous behavior eventually led to his dismissal, it won him a veneer of respectability within the imperial cesspool of the elite in Washington and a hero status among the liberal anti-Trump resistance e…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 39:57
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela documented
“Argentina or Venezuela. The White House interventionist policies toward Latin America was further articulated in a landmark address Bolton delivered that November. He was speaking at Miami Dade University. Bolton vowed Trump's administratio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 19:37
John Bolton carried_out_attack
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted
“some might say criminals, that kind of assembled around him. And it's very telling of, and this is obviously an effort that John Bolton led almost exclusively inside the Trump administration. And that's why I don't really take this as a Tru…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 1:06:33
John Bolton hired
Elliot Abrams host_asserted
“And that's why I thought it was so important. And I still, I'm dumbfounded on how Abram, Elliott Abrams even managed to get, I mean, I know that Bolton hired him. And Bolton, of course, was involved in Iran-Contra as well. So, but I honestl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 48:46
John Bolton member_of
Iran-Contra affair host_asserted
“And that's why I thought it was so important. And I still, I'm dumbfounded on how Abram, Elliott Abrams even managed to get, I mean, I know that Bolton hired him. And Bolton, of course, was involved in Iran-Contra as well. So, but I honestl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 48:46
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“against the military's rank and file aimed at intimidating them to defect. John Bolton didn't even hide that. Quote, this is a John Bolton quote, to the Venezuelan military high command, now is the time to stand up on the side of the Venezu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 20:28
John Bolton attempted_coup_against
Venezuela host_asserted
“in my memoir, and it turned out not to be successful. So this is John Bolton admitting on national television that he ran a coup against Venezuela. For Venezuelans, Bolton's confession underscored his already transparent role in directing t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 1:37
Nicolás Maduro accused
John Bolton host_asserted
“Maduro would go on to say that he couldn't accuse President Trump directly because he didn't think he was involved in it. He said, but I do have all the evidence to accuse John Bolton. He's a criminal and he failed. Bolton would later cite …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 10:02
John Bolton cited
Max Blumenthal host_asserted
“Maduro would go on to say that he couldn't accuse President Trump directly because he didn't think he was involved in it. He said, but I do have all the evidence to accuse John Bolton. He's a criminal and he failed. Bolton would later cite …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 10:02
John Bolton bolstered
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“By then, Trump had adopted the view that Guaido was a kid who nobody had ever heard of and recognized that Maduro still maintained complete control of Venezuela. Bolton, on the other hand, bolstered Guaido's estimate that 80% of Venezuelans…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 10:56
John Bolton contacted
Mike Pompeo host_asserted
“On April 30th, Bolton would put his confidence to the test. By Bolton's own account, the date represented a turning point for which Guaido and his U.S. backers had long prepared. He recalled starting the day at 8.25 a.m. phone call with the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 11:27
John Bolton convinced
Vladimir Padrino Lopez host_asserted
“Bolton remained convinced that Padrino Lopez was their man on the inside that was going to help them overthrow Maduro. Throughout the day, Guaido's miscarried mutiny, credulous corporate media correspondents repeatedly asserted to U.S. offi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 14:44
Tucker Carlson criticized
John Bolton host_asserted
“Yet perhaps no figure attracted Tucker's ire more than Trump's officials who actively undermine the president's America First agenda. He held particular contempt for Bolton, who he called a bureaucratic tapeworm, appropriately so. Quote, tr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 27:29
John Bolton pressured
Donald Trump host_asserted
“agencies periodically emerging to cause pain and suffering, just like a tapeworm. Tucker's attack on Bolton came days after Iran shot down a U.S. drone that had violated its airspace. In the aftermath of the Tehran response to Washington's …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 27:58
John Bolton headed
Lima Group book_quoted
“of the group called the Lima Group that was planning the overthrow, led by none other than Mike Pompeo, eventually, because he was at the CIA and then State Department, and John Bolton. Can we add this to John Bolton's rap sheet? It should …”
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John Bolton member_of
African American Institute host_asserted
“The same pattern. And then I looked into John Bolton, and his background is a little different, but he was involved in the American Enterprise Institute. And this institute is like an American neocon think tank that has connections to the B…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 1:08:55
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“And they are partly funded by all these big petroleum companies, ExxonMobil, blah, blah, blah, Chevron. So he is definitely part of this whole system of destabilizing Venezuela and trying to get the greedy fingers in there and hoping to ove…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 1:09:19
John Bolton attempted_coup_against
Venezuela host_asserted
“What is actually going on there versus what we're being told in the news. And we started the series back with Elliot Abrams and John Bolton with their failed attempted coup to install Juan Guaido as the fake president. And we're going throu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:28:09
John Bolton installed
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“What is actually going on there versus what we're being told in the news. And we started the series back with Elliot Abrams and John Bolton with their failed attempted coup to install Juan Guaido as the fake president. And we're going throu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:28:09
John Bolton exposed
Monroe Doctrine book_quoted
“Venezuelans and their government have been thrust into a war, not just one portrayed in the Western global media apparatus. Quote, today we proudly proclaim for all to hear the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well, unquote. That was said by no…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 10:50
Donald Trump appointed
John Bolton host_asserted
“explaining that he merely kept the hawk on his shoulder to send a message to world leaders that all options were on the table. Indeed, Trump banished Bolton as his big stick in international negotiations, fashioning the neocon as a prompt i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 38:32
John Bolton sabotaged
Donald Trump host_asserted
“and control over the flow of information in the White House to sabotage nearly everything that Trump tried to do. In his memoirs, Bolton boasted of undermining Trump's push to draw down the U.S. military occupation in Syria, as well as the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 38:59
John Bolton member_of
National Security Council book_quoted
“remain unanswered. There's increasing evidence that at least high-level U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the plan. In his memoirs, A Sacred Oath, Mark Esper shared his impression that members of Trump's National Security Council, i.e. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:27:53
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Syria documented
“The reverberations of the axis of evil beyond Bush's original hit list was no accident. Months after the president's address, a senior State Department official delivered a talk entitled Beyond the Axis of Evil. Because the axis of evil is …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 21:37
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Libya documented
“The reverberations of the axis of evil beyond Bush's original hit list was no accident. Months after the president's address, a senior State Department official delivered a talk entitled Beyond the Axis of Evil. Because the axis of evil is …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 21:37
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Cuba documented
“The reverberations of the axis of evil beyond Bush's original hit list was no accident. Months after the president's address, a senior State Department official delivered a talk entitled Beyond the Axis of Evil. Because the axis of evil is …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 21:37
John Bolton ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab guest_asserted
“We already know Pompeo's a bad guy. We know Abrams a bad guy. And John Bolton was involved in all of this. OK, that was that was kind of going to be my question. Yeah. So it is completely possible because they did it to JFK, too, to feed fa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:06:58
John Bolton member_of
United States book_quoted
“that he orchestrates coups. These are the people that were advising President Trump at the time. John Bolton was leading the National Security Council. And Gina Haskell was producing the quote unquote intelligence. And Mike Pompeo was the S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 13:00
John Bolton spied_on
Donald Trump documented
“He knew exactly what was going on and where the bodies are buried. Yes. And none of the shenanigans that Bolton tried would have flown with General Flynn. Bridget, go ahead. And John Bolton also published classified information in his book.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 44:47
John Bolton covered_up
2002 Venezuelan coup attempt host_asserted
“and control over the flow of information in the White House to sabotage nearly everything that Trump tried to do. In his memoirs, Bolton boasted of undermining Trump's push to draw down the U.S. military occupation in Syria, as well as the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 38:59
John Bolton funded
Juan Guaidó host_asserted
“his most enthusiastic cheerleader inside of the White House. Days after the Trump administration's January 2019 recognition of Juan Guaido, Bolton appeared on Fox Business to articulate the stakes of Washington's new Venezuelan policy. Quot…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 2:07
John Bolton ordered_assassination_of
Venezuela host_asserted
“Not a good thing. Why are we doing it? Iran stepped up to breathe new life into Venezuela's oil sector, which experienced a sharp decline after U.S. sanctions crafted by John Bolton barred Caracas from purchasing products and parts necessar…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 46:24
John Bolton headed
National Security Council book_quoted
“Trump and John Bolton at the National Security Council started thinking about using covert means of getting rid of Maduro. Given that popular momentum was there and the Venezuelans were lined up ready for the overthrow. So far, so good. Bet…”
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John Bolton covered_up
2018 assassination attempt on Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“promptly characterized the incident as a foreign-directed assassination attempt on Maduro, others, including Bolton, hastily dismissed it as a false flag operation. Quote, I can unequivocally say there is no U.S. involvement in any of this,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 5:59
John Bolton ordered_assassination_of
Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“It became clear that Venezuela's military leadership had rejected his call for a mutiny. A photograph of Guaido standing in the middle of an empty highway with a stunned expression on his face and cell phone expressed the picture of what wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 41:23
Mike Pence appointed
John Bolton host_asserted
“He was in Vice President Mike Pence's office. John Bolton, Maduro would then go on to say, it all points to John Bolton, who has a criminal mentality, a murderer's mentality, according to Maduro. The Venezuelan president was referring to an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 4:32
John Bolton member_of
CIA host_asserted
“you know, specifically requested that Dick Cheney not attend the funeral. And then later it's completely forgotten by all of the media, especially the fake left and Dick Cheney endorses Kamala Harris. Surprise, surprise. So it's like, and J…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 1:36:19
Mentions (98)
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coup orchestrated under the Trump administration, under the tutelage of Bolton with Guaido during his first administration. So that's the guy who, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't that the guy that we say legitimately won the election? Am I m…
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Now, I would argue that's not true because they obviously don't know about all the ones I do. And using all possible means to achieve it. It was Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton himself, who confessed that U.S. oil companies w…
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of the group called the Lima Group that was planning the overthrow, led by none other than Mike Pompeo, eventually, because he was at the CIA and then State Department, and John Bolton. Can we add this to John Bolton's rap sheet? It should …
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With his right hand held aloft, he declared himself the interim president of Venezuela with the full backing of the National Assembly, the country's highest legislative body. That day, he vowed to reestablish the Constitution, which many be…
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was not intimidated and didn't go happily into the night like many of the other people, despite the CIA offering in the past these people hundreds of millions of dollars just to walk away so they could now control the resources for the inte…
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said one official, all anonymous. The CIA, oh God, and this one cracks me up. This is Bolton speaking. The CIA is not the Mossad. It's hunkered down, bureaucratic, and not daring. I'd like to see an intelligence community that's more capabl…
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Trump and John Bolton at the National Security Council started thinking about using covert means of getting rid of Maduro. Given that popular momentum was there and the Venezuelans were lined up ready for the overthrow. So far, so good. Bet…
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Bolton speaking to Wired said there was a lot of them who didn't consider Venezuela an enemy. Now, let me just correct her right here, because it says in the Wired article, which is why you always check your references, that they didn't tal…
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And it says, let's see. OK, so let me read this. It was actually worse than that. Bolton speaking to Wired said he did not. It's from his book. There were a lot of them who didn't consider Venezuelan an enemy, who were actually aligned with…
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than Haspel did. The pair of them even formed their own group and shut Bolton out. Oh my word. Someone at the bloated agency must have felt the same way, denying them use of a device that could disrupt ship traffic. Now I found this very in…
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This is someone I'm going to pay attention to. I'm hesitant. I just don't want to throw under the bus completely. That was the only reason I brought it up. Yeah. Okay, go ahead. What other points did you have? Well, we're back to Venezuela.…
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And of course, that's where David worked for Covington and Burling, which is the law firm that employed, oh, I don't know, William Bundy, Victoria Newland, John Bolton, Eric Holder, all war pigs. I don't know about you, but I see a pattern.…
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research that I want to focus on happened during, I'm going to go through the history, but it happened during Trump's first administration. And it involves John Bolton, which is why I think it's so relevant to what's going on right now, bec…
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That was in the Trump administration. Now, you can have all kinds of opinions as to why that is, but I do think that that was an exposure operation as well, because when you allow those people in government positions to do that, just like w…
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But I do feel that it's an exposure thing because Bolton's as dirty as they could be. And he has those ties with the Middle East as well. And yeah. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I agree with you 100 percent. Go ahead, Renee. Yes, exactly. Hi, every…
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The same pattern. And then I looked into John Bolton, and his background is a little different, but he was involved in the American Enterprise Institute. And this institute is like an American neocon think tank that has connections to the B…
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And they are partly funded by all these big petroleum companies, ExxonMobil, blah, blah, blah, Chevron. So he is definitely part of this whole system of destabilizing Venezuela and trying to get the greedy fingers in there and hoping to ove…
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So, like, if Maduro falls, they're all ready to go in there and take outside of that area. What is it called? Esquiba or something. That whole zone that's right on the border of Guyana. Yeah. Yeah, where there's big conflict because there's…
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where Washington was not simply behind the action, but in front of it and using all means possible to achieve it. It was Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton himself, who confessed that the U.S. oil companies were ready to come in…
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Mosati massacre in El Salvador spoke on behalf of the Trump administration. So you guys may remember in the book we just did by Gary Webb, he mentioned Elliott Abrams several times because Elliott Abrams and John Bolton, who was also mentio…
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that he orchestrates coups. These are the people that were advising President Trump at the time. John Bolton was leading the National Security Council. And Gina Haskell was producing the quote unquote intelligence. And Mike Pompeo was the S…
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Washington's policy of maximum pressure was and still is destined for failure because it lacks one key element. It never truly considered what the people of Venezuela wanted. The Abrams, Boltons, and Pompeos of the world could never grasp t…
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that in the back of your mind every time his name comes up. He is a cohort of John Bolton. Elliott Abrams, born in 1948, an attorney, a diplomat, and quote-unquote foreign policy expert, known for his neocon views and long career in nationa…
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assassination of Soleimani. And then we're going to get into his role in the Venezuelan coup in upcoming chapters. But I thought it necessary that I kind of give you a background of who Elliott Abrams is. And he's in the first Trump adminis…
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tweeted an image of herself lounging on the couch within the embassy on the morning of March 20th, she officially kicked off a slumber party that turned into John Bolton's worst nightmare. Slept overnight in the D.C. Venezuelan embassy when…
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Serving as a crucial figure overseeing a scheme from his post on Bush Jr.'s national security team was none other than Elliott Abrams, the same guy that John Bolton used in 2019 to do the exact same thing. The guy just keeps coming back. Do…
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Twitter at the time, talking up the impending regime change in Venezuela, seemingly disconnected from the whole thing as if she's not in direct relation to the coup machine itself. She was packaging all of the information John Bolton and El…
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during a talk before the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston, a foreign policy gathering funded by none other than the petroleum industry. During the meeting, Haasman detailed his vision for the morning after the regime change in Carac…
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maintaining official ties with Maduro's UN-recognized government while providing critical assistance to the Washington regime change led by John Bolton. Most notably, the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights issued consequential rep…
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while accusing them of exercising social control. As with Clapp, Besselot's view of the collectivos directly parroted claims of U.S. officials like John Bolton and Marco Rubio, who had branded the groups as disorderly terrorist gangs that M…
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What is actually going on there versus what we're being told in the news. And we started the series back with Elliot Abrams and John Bolton with their failed attempted coup to install Juan Guaido as the fake president. And we're going throu…
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that attempted coup and how all of that worked out. And we're kind of presenting the other side of the story as opposed to the story we're being force-fed by the media. So, okay, and essentially, if I understand correctly, you're critical o…
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And the fact that Elliott Abrams was actually convicted of nefarious shit during Iran-Contra, him being one of the lead guys that Bolton used in this is very nefarious as well.…
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Yeah, one thing that I appreciate about Bolton, like I've read one of his books, he's a very upfront kind of guy. Like a lot of these guys try to say, oh, well, we care about like human rights or we care about democracy or they'll use like …
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alongside Gaudreau, also asserted the CIA and other U.S. agencies was aware. According to his attorneys, Alcala's effort to overthrow Maduro's government was reported to the CIA, National Security Council, John Bolton, and the Department of…
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remain unanswered. There's increasing evidence that at least high-level U.S. officials had prior knowledge of the plan. In his memoirs, A Sacred Oath, Mark Esper shared his impression that members of Trump's National Security Council, i.e. …
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It was also noted that Guaido's ally made some quick reference to Florida before making eye contact with another person in the room that was working for John Bolton. That person was Cliver Carone. Cliver, Claver, C-L-A-V-E-R dash C-A-R-O-N-…
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NSC Chief John Bolton infamously characterized as a troika of tyranny. The person that you recognize as the leader, Democratic leader in Venezuela, is not here, a female reporter complained during a press conference to Nancy Pelosi. What do…
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By calling into question which government, the fake one or the real one, could claim rightful ownership of Venezuela's foreign assets, the reality that Maduro's government controlled every single financial institution, including Venezuela's…
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The regime change in Caracas remains a fantasy relegated to the minds of Bolton and his crazed contemporaries, whom thankfully will soon be in the past. Even so, Guaido's imaginary authority provided by Washington and its allies proved a pe…
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Venezuelans and their government have been thrust into a war, not just one portrayed in the Western global media apparatus. Quote, today we proudly proclaim for all to hear the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well, unquote. That was said by no…
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Bay of Pigs veterans on April 2019, roughly three months after the U.S.'s recognition of Guaido. Days later, Ambassador Samuel Mankata, Venezuela's representative before the UN in New York, expressed to me his conviction that Bolton's Monro…
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We already know Pompeo's a bad guy. We know Abrams a bad guy. And John Bolton was involved in all of this. OK, that was that was kind of going to be my question. Yeah. So it is completely possible because they did it to JFK, too, to feed fa…
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pointed out the whole rumor mill that was going on throughout the State Department, the CIA with their mouthpieces in the media of all of these threats that they were going to break Saab out of jail any day had literally no intelligence beh…
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walk around, inspect the food and government subsidized items, including bread, fresh fruit, vegetables, blah, blah, blah. For Abrams, Bolton and Mnuchin and other in Washington, this clap market not only diminished the desired impact of th…
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And that's why I thought it was so important. And I still, I'm dumbfounded on how Abram, Elliott Abrams even managed to get, I mean, I know that Bolton hired him. And Bolton, of course, was involved in Iran-Contra as well. So, but I honestl…
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Not a good thing. Why are we doing it? Iran stepped up to breathe new life into Venezuela's oil sector, which experienced a sharp decline after U.S. sanctions crafted by John Bolton barred Caracas from purchasing products and parts necessar…
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whatever their denomination was because it wasn't in dollars, contract to repair Venezuela's refinery and was reportedly preparing to revamp the country's largest refining plant. Iran's firm announced plans to restore Venezuela's electrical…
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said, okay, now do business. So he hires in John Bolton, he hires in Elliott Abrams and Mike Pompeo, and they go right back to doing what they were doing, regime change. Only the doors are open now. And everybody can see that they're doing …
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And I just think he's allowing them enough rope to hang themselves. That's my takeaway anyway. What's up, Bridget? I did post in the pill or in our deal right up on OTI and right up on Canvas if people are interested in knowing what's going…
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against the military's rank and file aimed at intimidating them to defect. John Bolton didn't even hide that. Quote, this is a John Bolton quote, to the Venezuelan military high command, now is the time to stand up on the side of the Venezu…
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Eventually, Venezuelan military boots appeared in the frame as soldiers arrived to carry Cram to safety. Cram had been struck by an armored military vehicle as three Venezuelan soldiers inside hastily sped across the country's border and in…
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In April 2021, USAID published an internal audit that confirmed that the Venezuelans government had claimed all along the border stunt had been driven entirely by politics, not humanitarian objectives. The audit reported that the State Depa…
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by people in President Trump's administration that were criminals like John Bolton and Elliott Abrams doing it to Venezuela while we're watching it having happened here. That to me was just like mind blowing. And that's why you can't just a…
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some might say criminals, that kind of assembled around him. And it's very telling of, and this is obviously an effort that John Bolton led almost exclusively inside the Trump administration. And that's why I don't really take this as a Tru…
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Obviously, there were several people, Mike Pence, John Bolton and Elliott Abrams, that knew exactly what was going on because several of them were working with the game playing of overthrowing a government. So very interesting. Anyway, agai…
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I'll take a few minutes during the session as I normally do to try to put the whole thing in context. So we're on chapter eight. It's called One Tough Cookie. And it starts off with John Bolton saying, quote, as somebody who has planned cou…
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John Bolton said those words on CNN to Jake Tapper in July of 2022, nearly three years after his departure from the Trump White House. Tapper followed up with a request for details of the U.S. official's apparent criminal past. Bolton repli…
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in my memoir, and it turned out not to be successful. So this is John Bolton admitting on national television that he ran a coup against Venezuela. For Venezuelans, Bolton's confession underscored his already transparent role in directing t…
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his most enthusiastic cheerleader inside of the White House. Days after the Trump administration's January 2019 recognition of Juan Guaido, Bolton appeared on Fox Business to articulate the stakes of Washington's new Venezuelan policy. Quot…
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of Venezuela, unquote. It was all about the oil. In just those few words, Bolton shattered the myth of Washington's preoccupation with Venezuela being the stronghold of cartels, drug trafficking, and everything else. It was all about the oi…
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whom the U.S. president considered smart and tough. In his memoirs, Bolton disclosed that Trump instead expressed a desire to meet with Maduro directly and resolve our problems face-to-face unilaterally. He further revealed that the preside…
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only caving after Vice President Pence held a phone conversation with the unknown Venezuelan politician on the eve of his fake swearing-in ceremony not before. Bolton happened to be on hand for that discussion. He later recounted how after …
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to shake hands with him saying this is a historic moment. So this was basically a Pence, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo staged coup. Trump was not in favor of any of it. And notice that John Bolton, who is the national security advisor for the Tr…
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He was in Vice President Mike Pence's office. John Bolton, Maduro would then go on to say, it all points to John Bolton, who has a criminal mentality, a murderer's mentality, according to Maduro. The Venezuelan president was referring to an…
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promptly characterized the incident as a foreign-directed assassination attempt on Maduro, others, including Bolton, hastily dismissed it as a false flag operation. Quote, I can unequivocally say there is no U.S. involvement in any of this,…
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Maduro would go on to say that he couldn't accuse President Trump directly because he didn't think he was involved in it. He said, but I do have all the evidence to accuse John Bolton. He's a criminal and he failed. Bolton would later cite …
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of Maduro's accusation against him. So John Bolton was very proud of the fact that he was accused of trying to assassinate Maduro. Bolton built up his street creds as one of the most ruthless coup regime change artists in April 2019, roughl…
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By then, Trump had adopted the view that Guaido was a kid who nobody had ever heard of and recognized that Maduro still maintained complete control of Venezuela. Bolton, on the other hand, bolstered Guaido's estimate that 80% of Venezuelans…
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On April 30th, Bolton would put his confidence to the test. By Bolton's own account, the date represented a turning point for which Guaido and his U.S. backers had long prepared. He recalled starting the day at 8.25 a.m. phone call with the…
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A contingent of Venezuelan opposition activists began shutting down sections of Caracas. Then, for the first time since joining the White House one year prior, Bolton made the decision to wake the president up to deliver important news of a…
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They eventually settled in Spain's Caracas embassy, and Guaido was nowhere to be found. Multiple accounts, including Bolton's, later revealed that Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez had duped Leopoldo, Guaido, and their U.S.…
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Bolton remained convinced that Padrino Lopez was their man on the inside that was going to help them overthrow Maduro. Throughout the day, Guaido's miscarried mutiny, credulous corporate media correspondents repeatedly asserted to U.S. offi…
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Bolton continued to publicly indulge his regime change fantasy. Quote, your time is up. This is your last chance, he tweeted. Accept interim President Guaido's amnesty. Protect the Constitution and remove Maduro, and we will take off our sa…
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the U.S. media neglected to scrutinize Bolton or Pompeo's narrative of imminent triumph in Caracas. CNN's Jake Tapper, a noted neocon, spent his days, his former days, talking about Obama's failure to overthrow Syrian government was particu…
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To include media matters, with overblown anti-Trump tirades painting the president as a Russian puppet, Tapper was in complete lockstep with the Pompeo and Bolton narrative. For a broadcaster with a personality envious of drawing paint, it …
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Yet perhaps no figure attracted Tucker's ire more than Trump's officials who actively undermine the president's America First agenda. He held particular contempt for Bolton, who he called a bureaucratic tapeworm, appropriately so. Quote, tr…
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agencies periodically emerging to cause pain and suffering, just like a tapeworm. Tucker's attack on Bolton came days after Iran shot down a U.S. drone that had violated its airspace. In the aftermath of the Tehran response to Washington's …
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He was resented in polite Washington society because he was straightforward. My friends among DC's marginalized circle of former military and intelligence officials with anti-interventionalist views hope that McGregor could one day replace …
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To illustrate the point, she cited a report from the Center of Economic and Policy Research think tank published a few days earlier, which found that U.S. sanctions contributed to thousands of excess deaths in Venezuela between 2017 and 18 …
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exchange on state television. Days later, Tucker informed me that our interview not only garnered top ratings, but had caught the attention of President Trump himself. According to Tucker, the president phoned him shortly after the events o…
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Those are the riots that were funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, IRI, the Republican part of the National Endowment for Democracy, and reinforces that it's two wings of the same bird. He's doing exactly what a Republican did an…
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a key electoral prize for an U.S. candidate. Trump eventually enabled Washington's most notorious group to commandeer his approach to Latin America and the Caribbean. In April 2018, he shocked many of his supporters by appointing notorious …
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Caroni, a Cuban-American to head the council's division on Western Hemisphere. Within a matter of weeks, Trump's Latin American policy had been hijacked by the very Beltway swamp creatures upon which he had previously declared war. Througho…
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Argentina or Venezuela. The White House interventionist policies toward Latin America was further articulated in a landmark address Bolton delivered that November. He was speaking at Miami Dade University. Bolton vowed Trump's administratio…
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of tyranny that dominated the region, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, all targets of regime change. Crafted in part as a rebuke to Obama's normalization efforts with Cuba, Bolton's address put governments in Havana, Managua, and Caracas on …
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The reverberations of the axis of evil beyond Bush's original hit list was no accident. Months after the president's address, a senior State Department official delivered a talk entitled Beyond the Axis of Evil. Because the axis of evil is …
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Speaking at the Conservative Heritage Foundation think tank in Washington, D.C., the official task with expanding the access of evil target list was none other than John Bolton. Nearly 20 years later, Bolton would bring his regime change fa…
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a turn of events that culminated with Washington's recognition of Guido just two months following his Troika of Tyranny tirade. The neocon takeover of U.S.-Latin American policy was solidified with the immediate aftermath of Guido's January…
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from Congress. Though George H.W. Bush pardoned him the following year, Abrams would go on to serve in Bush Jr.'s national security team and orchestrate a failed military coup against Chavez in April 2002, just weeks following the U.S. pres…
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We intimidate all the other countries to do what we want them to do. Bolton took credit for personally crafting Washington's approach to Venezuela's sanction regime in his 2020 memoir, The Room Where It Happened, complaining that even Trump…
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According to Bolton, Mnuchin believed the extreme policy would not only hinder U.S. commercial activity abroad, but also prompt a surge in international oil prices that would inadvertently hurt U.S. consumers. Treasury treated every new san…
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They're about using America's massive economic power to advance our national interest. But it's not our national interest they're involved, concerned with. It's the interest of the oligarch. Our national interests are not enhanced by beatin…
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The Freedom House was actively involved in Venezuela for years. The International Republican Institute that John McCain ran was actively involved funding this Mercado chick and Guaido that John Bolton wanted to regime change. So if you want…
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So this will be interesting as we walk through this next year or so. Yeah, good point. All along. Go ahead. Yeah, Colonel. I just want to bring up two names, John Bolton and Nicole Wallace. And they're kind of symbolic of the overall genera…
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you know, specifically requested that Dick Cheney not attend the funeral. And then later it's completely forgotten by all of the media, especially the fake left and Dick Cheney endorses Kamala Harris. Surprise, surprise. So it's like, and J…
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Let me just grab a real quick note. So the alumni, we went through, you know, obviously William Bundy from Skull and Bones, Victoria Newland, who we talked about, the merchant of death because her husband is Skull and Bones, Robert Kagan. Y…
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What is what we're experiencing today? OK, so he becomes a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, AEI, which is considered officially a center right think tank. Founded in 1938, it advocates for private enterprise, limited g…