Mixed message from a Trump future pardon recipient
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 2:32 pm
A federal judge in Tampa has ordered the arrest of a former Green Beret accused of plotting to invade Venezuela in 2020 after he failed to show up to court for a hearing on whether he should be taken back into custody for violating the conditions of his pre-trial release.
Jordan Goudreau, 49, was arrested last year on weapons smuggling charges tied to the failed coup attempt undertaken during the first Trump administration. Goudreau has at times lashed out at an array of purported deep-state actors - the CIA and State Department among them - that he blames for "sabotaging" his clandestine mission, which he insists was blessed with a wink from the first Trump administration.
Many of those same actors are once again trying to derail Trump's foreign policy agenda, he said. Meanwhile, he called Trump's allegations that Maduro is the leader of the so-called Suns Cartel of drug-running military officials a "fabrication of the CIA."