‘Morning Joe’ Guest Admits Maduro Takedown ‘Tactically Brilliant’
A former CIA officer called the operation that led to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro “tactically brilliant” during an appearance Monday on “Morning Joe.”
President Donald Trump announced in an article on Truth Social on Saturday that U.S. military forces, including Delta Force, protected a law enforcement operation that arrested Maduro and his wife in Caracas. “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough asked Marc Polymeropoulos to discuss the surgery. (RELATED: Schumer rushes to block Trump administration’s success in Venezuela, despite previous calls for regime change)
“Before we talk about what happens next, let’s talk about what happened during the attack,” Scarborough said. “We saw you talk about how this was extraordinarily difficult and yet the military, special ops, the CIA seemed to be handling it extraordinarily well.”
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“So, Joe, this is really the product of 20 years of close coordination between the CIA, my former organization, and Joint Special Operations Command,” Polymeropoulos responded. “It started after 9/11, this backlash. I actually worked with the special operations community, including Delta Force. That’s the unit that carried out that operation. We grew up together and those were techniques and practices that were refined. And that’s what you saw unfold in Venezuela.”
Some prominent leftists, including podcasters Keith Olbermann and Dean Obeidallah, have taken to Bluesky to demand Trump’s impeachment over the operation. Congressional Democrats denounced the operation as an illegal act of war, with Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York saying he would push to use the War Powers Act to end the operations.
“They would have had teams on the ground, they had recruited high level infiltration of the Maduro regime and what they do is sort of establish the lifestyle of Maduro and his family, which then allows a special forces team, in this case Delta Force, to come in and conduct this extraction operation,” Polymeropoulos said. “It’s truly remarkable that no Americans have been killed in combat.”
“Ultimately, this is something that I think is going to be kind of written into the history of intelligence and special operations,” Polymeropoulos continued. “It’s something I think we can focus on and think about. It’s tactically brilliant.”
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