Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton On Tuesday, he admitted on television that he helped plan coups in other countries and confirmed that the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington DC failed.
This latest episode was the result of then-President Donald Trump “sliding from one idea to another,” he said. Bolton journalist Jake Tapper CNN.
“As someone who helped plan coups, not here but, you know, elsewhere, it takes a lot of work,” he said.
John Bolton did not specify which governments he helped bring down, but although he was Trump’s national security adviser from 2018 to 2019, he advocated US military intervention in Venezuela.
January 6 “was not an attack on our democracy. This is Donald Trump taking care of Donald Trump. This happens once in a lifetime,” Bolton said.
“After all, he released the vandals on Capitol Hill, there is no doubt about that. But not to overthrow the Constitution, but to buy time, to leave the problem to the states, to try to turn the tide,” he said. added.
John Bolton led the invasion of Iraq
John Bolton served in the Justice Department and State Department in three Republican administrations beginning with Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
He was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush and was known for decades for his huge gray mustache.
John Bolton he implicitly pushed for a US invasion of Iraq and spoke out in support of the bombing of Iran and North Korea, an interventionist approach that distanced him from Trump, who fired him in 2019.
Bolton’s comments about the Jan. 6 riots come as a US congressional committee is working to determine whether Trump and his allies played any role in planning and fomenting a violent uprising that left at least five people dead and 140 police officers wounded. wounds.
On Tuesday, lawmakers said Trump’s tweet promising a “violent” January 6 was taken by members of the far-right militias and other supporters who stormed the US Capitol as a “call to arms.”
(AFP)
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