On Venezuelan TV, a former Special Forces soldier claimed President Donald Trump ordered the mission to kidnap President Nicolás Maduro

Venezuelan state television broadcast apparent confessions from former US Special Forces soldiers, detailing an alleged plot to kidnap President Nicolás Maduro and bring him to the US.
On Monday, Maduro identified two US service members, Luke Denman and Airan Berry, and said they were part of a failed coup.
Denman has said that he was acting under the order of President Donald Trump, a claim that Maduro reiterated. But US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denied the US government's "direct involvement."
Former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau has claimed responsibility for "Operation Gideon," the alleged plan to remove Venezuela's socialist leader.

Venezuelan state media broadcast an apparent confession from former US service member Airan Berry, who detailed an alleged plot to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and bring him to the US.

On Monday, Maduro said that two US citizens were arrested with a group of "mercenaries" who had planned to overthrow his government. The two men were identified as former US Special Forces soldiers Luke Denman and Airan Berry.

In an edited confession broadcast by Venezuelan state television on Thursday, Berry, 41, detailed the alleged plot, explaining that his group planned to raid Maduro's palace before taking him away "however necessary."

Asked where the aircraft carrying Maduro would have taken him, Berry said, "I assume that it is the United States."

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