Asked to comment on the House Committee hearings on the Capitol attack, John Bolton, a former national security adviser under the Trump administration, said on Tuesday that he himself “participated in the planning of coups“outside the United States.
Faced with the assertion launched by the presenter of the CNN channelthat someone did not need “to be brilliant to attempt a coup“, John Bolton retorted in a natural tone: “I do not agree. As someone who helped plan coups, not here, but you know, elsewhere, it’s a lot of work.“.
John Bolton thus maintains that the assault of January 6, 2021 was not a coup attempt on the part of Donald Trump, who was only doing “than switching from one idea to another“. Known for his warmongering positions in diplomacy, John Bolton who served as national security adviser to the White House in 2018 before being sacked by the Republican president in September 2019, did not specify what coups he was talking about, but he did refer to the failed attempt to oust Nicolas Maduro from power in Venezuela in 2019 by opposition leader Juan Guaido, who was backed by Washington.
Alongside the neoconservatives, John Bolton, very hard on Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea, was notably one of the architects of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. John Bolton’s comments come as the so-called “parliamentary committee”January 6“tries to determine the role of Donald Trump and those close to him in the storming of the Capitol.
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