'As somebody who has helped plan coup d'état, not here, but, you know, other places, it takes a lot of work,' says John Bolton.
"It's a wild quote because he admits on camera to planning coups while declaring he's brilliant," said Nina Turner."Apparently not brilliant enough to not admit that on camera!"Longtime Republican official John Bolton admitted during a televised interview Tuesday that he has helped plan coups outside of the United States.to discuss the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
After Bolton claimed that Trump's lies about the 2020 presidential election that provoked last year's Capitol attack were not part of"a carefully planned coup d'état aimed at the Constitution," host Jake Tapper said that"I don't know that I agree with you, to be fair, with all due respect. One doesn't have to be brilliant to attempt a coup."
Bolton responded that"I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coups d'état, not here, but, you know, other places, it takes a lot of work. And that's not what he did." Tapper followed up on coup comments, and Bolton—who also held roles in the administrations of former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush—initially said that"I'm not gonna get into the specifics."
Bolton then pointed out that in his recently released book, he wrote about the failed effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2019. The Trump administration notably—were quick to highlight, Bolton has a long history of supporting such efforts.In 2004, while Bolton was serving in the State Department, the U.S. faced allegations of backing the overthrow of Haiti's president.
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