by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
Testimony from Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro reveals that the Deep State tried to assassinate him in 2018 just like they did to Trump last week.
Maduro reacted to attempt on Trump’s life at a Pennsylvania rally by declaring, “I want, on behalf of all of Venezuela and our people, to reject, repudiate the attack against former President Donald Trump.” It was a generous gesture from a leader who personally blamed Trump’s former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, for orchestrating the drone assassination attempt that nearly killed him during an August 2018 military rally in Caracas.
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Thegrayzone.com reports: In the following excerpt from her new book, Corporate Coup, Anya Parampil describes how Trump suggested interest in a deal with Venezuela while Bolton and a clique of neoconservatives were plotting regime change against the country’s socialist-oriented government, and who later sought to topple Trump’s own government. Maduro has since revealed that Trump had arranged a meeting with him, but that Bolton and then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sabotaged it. “If we had met, Trump and I would have understood each other – we would even have become friends,” Maduro stated this February. “[Bolton & Pompeo] led Trump to a failure. False advisors!”
The excerpt that follows helps set the stage for a potential second Trump administration, and its inevitable battle with the Beltway foreign policy establishment that seems determined to destroy him – if it can not co-opt or overwhelm the president first.
“As somebody who has helped plan coups d’état—not here, but you know, other places—it takes a lot of work.”
John Bolton uttered these words during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper in July 2022,1 nearly three years following his departure from the Trump White House. When Tapper followed up with a request for details of the US official’s apparently criminal past, Bolton replied: “Well, I wrote about Venezuela in [my memoir] and it turned out not to be successful.”
For Venezuelans, Bolton’s confession underscored his already transparent role in directing Washington’s failed coup in Caracas—and the infamously incompetent military putsch that eventually came with it.
From the outset of Guaidó’s self-declared presidency, Bolton acted as his most enthusiastic cheerleader inside the White House. Days after the Trump administration’s January 2019 recognition of Guaidó, Bolton appeared on Fox Business to articulate the stakes of Washington’s new Venezuela policy.
“It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela,” the veteran US official declared.2 In just a few words, Bolton shattered the myth that Washington’s preoccupation with Venezuela was rooted in an abstract moral commitment to ideals like freedom and democracy.
According to Bolton, Trump was always skeptical of Guaidó’s ability to dislodge Maduro, whom the US president considered “too smart and too tough” to fall. In his memoir, Bolton disclosed that Trump instead expressed a desire to meet with Maduro directly and “resolve our problems with Venezuela” on multiple occasions. He further revealed that the president did not even want to issue the initial White House statement in support of Guaidó under his own name, only caving after Vice President Pence held a phone conversation with the unknown Venezuelan politician on the eve of his self-directed “swearing in” ceremony.
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