{"id":1551428,"date":"2022-07-12T22:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T02:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551428"},"modified":"2022-07-12T22:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T02:34:14","slug":"john-bolton-casually-admits-hes-planned-coups-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-bolton-casually-admits-hes-planned-coups-before\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton Casually Admits He\u2019s Planned Coups Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-bolton-casually-admits-hes-planned-coups-before%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551428&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former National Security Adviser John Bolton admitted during a Tuesday CNN interview that he had helped to plan coups d\u2019etat in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton joined \u201cThe Lead\u201d anchor Jake Tapper to discuss the ongoing January 6 Committee hearings, and the two appeared to be at odds over whether the riot that unfolded that day on Capitol Hill had been the result of a carefully planned coup attempt or simply happenstance.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, casually admitting that he&#8217;s helped plan coups d&#8217;etat \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GsMdsrZp6H\">pic.twitter.com\/GsMdsrZp6H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1547029931611377667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bolton argued that former President Donald Trump\u2019s actions \u2014 particularly after he lost the 2020 presidential election \u2014 had certainly been \u201cindefensible,\u201d but that he didn\u2019t believe the riot had been the culmination of careful planning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s also important to understand, while nothing Donald Trump did after the election in connection with the lie about the election fraud, none of it is defensible. None of it is defensible,\u201d Bolton began. \u201cIt\u2019s also a mistake, as some people have said, including on the committee, that somehow this was a carefully planned coup d\u2019etat aimed at the Constitution. That\u2019s not the way Donald Trump does things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bolton went on to describe Trump\u2019s approach as more \u201crambling\u201d from one idea to the next, making new plans in real time as the old ones fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s \u2014 to use a \u2018Star Wars\u2019 metaphor \u2014 a disturbance in the force,\u201d Bolton continued, arguing that Trump had simply been looking out for his own interests and the riot had just happened. \u201cIt\u2019s not an attack on our democracy. It\u2019s Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump. It\u2019s a once in a lifetime occurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know that I agree with you, to be fair with all due respect. One doesn\u2019t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup,\u201d Tapper argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coups d\u2019etat, not here, but other places, it takes a lot of work,\u201d Bolton replied. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not what he did. It was just stumbling around from one idea to another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bolton said that while he agreed that Trump had encouraged the rioters to move toward the Capitol, it had not been a well-thought-out plot to overthrow the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if you don\u2019t believe that, you\u2019re going to overreact,\u201d Bolton concluded. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s a real risk for the committee, which has done a lot of good work \u2026 It is invariably the case that when you go too far, trying to prove your case, you undermine it. And I think you got to give credit to the intelligence of the American people to listen to the witnesses and let them come to the conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Security Adviser John Bolton admitted during a Tuesday CNN interview that he had helped to plan coups d\u2019etat in the past. Bolton joined \u201cThe Lead\u201d anchor Jake Tapper to discuss the ongoing January 6 Committee hearings, and the two appeared to be at odds over whether the riot that unfolded that day on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1551451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1551451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}