Bolton Casually Admits Helping Plan Foreign Coups

The Insider reports:

John Bolton, who served in an array of key government roles across multiple Republican administrations, casually told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’s helped plan coups in other countries.

The admission came on Tuesday as Bolton and Tapper discussed former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to overturn the results of a US presidential election.

Bolton, who served as national security advisor in the Trump administration from 2018 to 2019, told Tapper that “nothing Donald Trump did after the election in connection with the lie about election fraud — none of it is defensible.”

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In which John Bolton casually admits to his participation in unspecified international coups, simply because he’ll be damned if he’s going to sit there and let Jake Tapper act like any idiot can do it. https://t.co/ivjjZLKPJz

— Matt Blair (@mjblair) July 12, 2022

John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, admits to helping plan coups in other countries while debating CNN’s @jaketapper about Trump’s capability to plan a coup on January 6. https://t.co/V9NnWQHH7h

— CNN (@CNN) July 12, 2022