Former US National Security Adviser: We planned to carry out "coups" in some countries

The former US national security adviser in the administration of Donald Trump, John Bolton, has admitted overseeing his country's plans to carry out "coups" outside the United States.

His conversation with CNN came about the events of January 6, 2021, when demonstrators supporting former President Trump stormed the Congress building, and the matter led to deaths and injuries during clashes with security men, under the pretext of "falsifying the results of the presidential election."

Bolton commented on the events, saying, "This is not an attack on our democracy, but rather a concern from Donald Trump on Donald Trump. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event."

CNN anchor Jake Tapper replied, "I don't know if I agree with you if we're being fair, with all due respect. You don't have to be smart to make a coup attempt."

Then comes Bolton's surprising answer: "I don't agree with that, as someone who helped plan a coup, not here, but, you know, in other places...it takes a lot of work, and that's not what he (Trump) did, and he was just navigating an idea." to another".

He continued, "Eventually he unleashed the capitol hooligans, and regarding that, there's no doubt, but he didn't drop the Constitution to buy more time and bring it back to the states to try to get the case back, and if you don't believe it, you're going to overreact."

Bolton hasn't been outspoken about the coup attempts he's referring to, where exactly they took place and whether they were successful, but he said, "I wrote about Venezuela in the book, and it turns out it wasn't successful, and that doesn't mean we had a close relationship."

"But I saw what it took for the opposition to try to overthrow an illegally elected president, and they failed. The notion that Donald Trump was half as efficient as the Venezuelan opposition is laughable."

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