John Bolton, former ambassador of the United States of America to the United Nations and former national security adviser of the White House, acknowledged yesterday Tuesday during an interview with an American television network that he helped to plan military coups in other states.
Mr. Bolton made the revelation casually, speaking to CNN after yesterday’s public hearing of the House of Representatives’ special investigative committee into the January 6, 2021, attack on the federal Capitol.
Members of the committee accused Republican former President Donald Trump during that hearing of inciting that day’s violence in his desperate bid to stay in office despite losing the November 2020 election.
Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper, John Bolton argued that Mr Trump was not competent enough to pull off a “carefully planned coup”. Before adding: “As someone who helped plan military coups – not here, you know, (in) other places – it takes a lot for them to succeed. And (Mr Trump) didn’t.”
Jake Tapper asked him which attempts to overthrow governments he was referring to.
“I won’t go into specifics,” Mr Bolton replied, but then referred to Venezuela by name.
“It turned out that (the attempt to topple her government) wasn’t successful. Not that we got that involved in it, but I saw what it takes for an opposition to try to topple an illegitimately elected president — and it didn’t.”
In 2019, Mr Bolton, then the US president’s national security adviser, publicly backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido’s call for the Latin American country’s armed forces to join forces in his bid to topple socialist president Nicolas Maduro. Mr. Guaido called the president’s re-election illegal.
Nicolas Maduro remains in power.
“I sense there are other things you’re not telling me (beyond Venezuela),” the CNN host insisted. To get the answer “sure”.
Many international relations experts have extolled Washington’s record of interventions in other states, for example its role in the 1953 overthrow of Iranian nationalist Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and various Latin American governments, as well as the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
In any case, it is highly unusual for US officials, current or former, to publicly acknowledge their role in fomenting unrest in foreign countries.
“John Bolton, who served at the highest levels of the US government and was, among other things, ambassador to the UN, casually brags that he helped plan coups in other countries,” Dickens Olewi, a Kenyan BBC journalist, commented on Twitter.
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