Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton He admitted this Tuesday on television that he has helped plan coups in other countries and affirmed that the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington fell short.
This last episode was the result of the then president, Donald Trump“stumbling from one idea to another,” he said Bolton to journalist Jake Tapper from CNN.
“As someone who has helped plan coups, not here, but, you know, in other places, it takes a lot of work,” he said.
John Bolton He did not specify which governments he had helped overthrow, but while he was Trump’s national security adviser, between 2018 and 2019, he advocated a US military intervention in Venezuela.
Jan. 6 “wasn’t an attack on our democracy. It’s Donald Trump taking care of Donald Trump. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” Bolton said.
“In the end, he did unleash 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 reverse the matter,” he added.
John Bolton led the invasion of Iraq
John Bolton served in the Justice and State Departments for 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 for decades has been recognized for his enormous white mustache.
John Bolton he unapologetically pushed for the US invasion of Iraq and has voiced support for bombing 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 works to determine whether Trump and his allies played any role in planning and fueling the violent insurrection that has left at least five dead and 140 police officers injured.
On Tuesday, lawmakers said a Trump tweet promising a “savage” January 6 was perceived as “a call to arms” by members of far-right militias and other supporters who stormed the US Capitol.
(AFP)