311. Sabotage at Sea: Jordan Goudreau's Side of the Venezuela Coup Attempt Story
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Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Ex-Green Beret's allegations of White House double-cross in botched Venezuela coup attempt. Was it an effort by insiders to embarrass President Trump?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. It's Cheryl Ackison. |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast. Today was a failed American-led |
| 0:15.8 | American-led coup against Venezuela's leader, an attempt by insiders to embarrass President Trump. |
| 0:23.3 | Ex-Green Beret Jordan Goodrow led that operation and has a lot to say. |
| 0:29.6 | If you're like me, you didn't know much, if anything, about Operation Gideon, |
| 0:34.4 | a planned coup in 2020 hoping to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. |
| 0:40.2 | Maybe you heard about it to the extent that it was botched or didn't work out, but the |
| 0:45.2 | backstory to this is fascinating. Five years later, it's the subject of the prosecution of the |
| 0:50.8 | ex-Green Beret who led the operation Jordan Goodrow. Today, he tells us there's a lot more |
| 0:57.5 | to the story than a botched coup attempt. Among his allegations, the Trump administration people |
| 1:03.7 | involved in spearheading the whole thing, he says, were interested primarily in business |
| 1:09.0 | opportunities. And even more interesting to me, |
| 1:12.3 | Goodrow says he's convinced some of the Trump insiders worked to publicly foil the plan |
| 1:17.3 | in order to embarrass the president. Here's Jordan Goodrow. |
| 1:22.6 | There's a lot going on in Venezuela as we speak, apparently, and before we get into your fascinating story, are you following any of that? Do you have any idea, or can you set the stage for people who aren't following the geoglobal dynamics? Yeah, no, I think that Venezuela has been, it's certainly been on the radar for several administrations. Obviously, |
| 1:47.6 | the previous Trump administration wanted to do back then what it's trying to do now, which is |
| 1:55.1 | remove Nicholas Maduro. This time around, it's, I guess, under the auspice of narco-terrorist country slash state. |
| 2:06.5 | And so the trip buildup isn't new. |
| 2:09.2 | There was a destroyer group that was dispatched last time around. |
| 2:13.5 | This time around, there's getting more press because the military is actually targeting boats and destroying those boats using. |
| 2:23.8 | You know, I'm not too sure what Intel they're going off of if it's SIG and Humeant and whatnot, but that's kind of what's going on right now. |
| 2:31.9 | Can you explain in really simple terms why we |
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