{"id":1553232,"date":"2022-07-13T19:19:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553232"},"modified":"2022-07-13T19:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:19:53","slug":"john-bolton-blasts-coup-critics-as-snowflakes-who-dont-understand-what-it-takes-to-defend-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-bolton-blasts-coup-critics-as-snowflakes-who-dont-understand-what-it-takes-to-defend-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton Blasts Coup Critics As \u2018Snowflakes\u2019 Who \u2018Don\u2019t Understand\u2019 What It Takes To Defend U.S."},"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\">32<\/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-blasts-coup-critics-as-snowflakes-who-dont-understand-what-it-takes-to-defend-u-s%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=1553232&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>After casually admitting on CNN that he had helped plan foreign coups d\u2019etat Tuesday night, former National Security Adviser John Bolton blasted critics of his remarks as \u201csnowflakes\u201d who simply \u201cdon\u2019t understand what you need to do to protect\u201d the American people and the country\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, who most recently served as an adviser under President Donald J. Trump, made his comments during an appearance on Newsmax\u2019s \u201cJohn Bachman Now\u201d on Thursday afternoon after anchor Bianca de la Garza asked him about the controversy created by his comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmbassador, I do have to ask you also \u2014 your comment yesterday on CNN about coups and orchestrating them,\u201d de la Garza said. \u201cIt\u2019s getting a lot of play, as you know. What would you like to say to that? Obviously, the U.S. is a world superpower, and were you surprised that some of the pickup there was about your talk, you know obviously, you\u2019ve written a lot about Venezuela in your book?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think there are a lot of snowflakes out there that don\u2019t understand what you need to do to protect the United States,\u201d Bolton shot back.<\/p>\n<p>In his 2020 memoir, \u201cThe Room Where It Happened,\u201d Bolton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2020\/06\/24\/boltons-book-reveals-a-botched-bureaucratic-process-on-venezuela\/\">claimed<\/a> that the U.S. allegedly failed to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro due to a series of mistakes made by Trump and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton refused to go into detail regarding that story but he did send a pointed criticism of American presidents unwilling to partake in heavy-handed tactics overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to get into specifics,\u201d he continued. \u201cI did write about Venezuela in my memoir, and I think that any president that\u2019s not willing to do what it takes to protect the interests of the American people needs to have some counseling.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>On Tuesday, Bolton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/john-bolton-casually-admits-hes-planned-coups-before\">joined<\/a> CNN\u2019s \u201cThe Lead\u201d to discuss the ongoing January 6 Committee hearings, but Bolton took affront to anchor Jake Tapper\u2019s claim that \u201cone doesn\u2019t have to be brilliant\u201d in order to plan a coup.<\/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 said to Tapper during the interview. \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 also claimed that the January 6 riot was not necessarily planned nor an assault on the American form of government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s \u2014 to use a \u2018Star Wars\u2019 metaphor \u2014 a disturbance in the force,\u201d Bolton continued. \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,\u201d Tapper rebutted. \u201cOne doesn\u2019t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup.\u201d<\/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>The exchange can be seen here:<\/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><em>Virginia Kruta contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After casually admitting on CNN that he had helped plan foreign coups d\u2019etat Tuesday night, former National Security Adviser John Bolton blasted critics of his remarks as \u201csnowflakes\u201d who simply \u201cdon\u2019t understand what you need to do to protect\u201d the American people and the country\u2019s interests. 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