{"id":1551493,"date":"2022-07-13T05:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T09:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551493"},"modified":"2022-07-13T05:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T09:34:18","slug":"former-white-house-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-says-he-helped-plan-attempted-foreign-coups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-white-house-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-says-he-helped-plan-attempted-foreign-coups\/","title":{"rendered":"Former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton Says He Helped Plan Attempted Foreign Coups"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fformer-white-house-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-says-he-helped-plan-attempted-foreign-coups%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=1551493&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-john-bolton\">John Bolton<\/a>, the former\u00a0White House national security adviser for the Trump administration, has claimed that he previously helped\u00a0plan attempted coups of foreign leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton made the comment in an\u00a0interview with CNN\u2019s \u201cThe Lead\u201d on Tuesday, shortly after the\u00a0Jan. 6 House Select Committee had wrapped up its seventh congressional hearing, regarding the breach of\u00a0the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Panel lawmakers focused much of Tuesday\u2019s hearing on evidence\u00a0around testimony provided by former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and alleged ties between former\u00a0President Trump\u00a0and \u201cextremist\u201d right-wing groups.<\/p>\n<p>The committee claims that Trump\u00a0intentionally tried to mount an insurrection against the United States government in a last-ditch effort to remain in power after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CNN, Bolton\u00a0insisted that Trump could not have pulled off a \u201ccarefully planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-coup\">coup<\/a> d\u2019etat aimed at the Constitution\u201d because \u201cthat\u2019s not the way Donald Trump does things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not an attack on our democracy,\u201d Bolton said. \u201cIt\u2019s Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump. It\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN host Jake\u00a0Tapper responded, \u201cI don\u2019t know that I agree with you, to be fair, with all due respect\u201d adding that \u201cone doesn\u2019t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Bolton said he disagreed with this statement before referencing his own alleged experience helping to plan a coup.<\/p>\n<p> Helped Plan Coups <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs somebody who has helped plan coups d\u2019etat\u2014not here but, you know, [in] other places\u2014it takes a lot of work. And that\u2019s not what he [Trump] did,\u201d Bolton continued. \u201cIt was just stumbling around from one idea to another. Ultimately, he did unleash the rioters at the Capitol. As to that, there is no doubt. But not to overthrow the Constitution to buy more time to throw the matter back to the states to try to redo the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if you don\u2019t believe that,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bolton, the former\u00a0White House national security adviser for the Trump administration, has claimed that he previously helped\u00a0plan attempted coups of foreign leaders. Bolton made the comment in an\u00a0interview with CNN\u2019s \u201cThe Lead\u201d on Tuesday, shortly after the\u00a0Jan. 6 House Select Committee had wrapped up its seventh congressional hearing, regarding the breach of\u00a0the U.S. Capitol. 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