Bolton made the stunning revelation during an interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper while discussing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol building by Trump’s supporters, noting it is wrong to claim that Trump orchestrated a “carefully planned coup d’état against the Constitution” on that date.
In his remarks, Bolton said Trump personally "doesn't listen to anybody else," adding "nothing Donald Trump did after the election in connection with the lie about the election fraud, none of it is defensible.”
"It’s also a mistake, as some people said, including on the committee, the commentators, that somehow this was a carefully planned coup d’état aimed at the Constitution. That’s not how Donald Trump does things," he said, referring to the House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6.
"You have to understand the nature of what the problem of Donald Trump is. He’s -- to use a Star Wars metaphor -- a disturbance in The Force, and it’s not an attack on our democracy. It’s Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump. It’s a once in a lifetime occurrence," Bolton continued.
But Tapper pushed back, saying he did not agree.
"One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup," he said.
"I disagree with that," Bolton responded. "As somebody who has helped plan coup d’états, not here, but, you know, other places, it takes a lot of work. And that’s not what he did."
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It’s time for the United States to recognize its role in the 2014 “state coup in Ukraine”, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said on Wednesday.
ReplyDelete"It’s common knowledge that the US tried to overthrow President of Venezuela. Now waiting for acknowledgement of US pivotal role in illegal Maidan coup in Ukraine in 2014 which is an open secret too," the Russian diplomat wrote on Twitter, commenting on former high-ranking White House official’s remarks about his participation in staging coups abroad, TASS reported.
On Tuesday, John Bolton, a former White House national security adviser, said: "As somebody who has helped plan coups d'etat - not here but you know (in) other places - it takes a lot of work."
Unrest in the center of Kiev broke out at the end of 2013. Organizers of protests in Kiev’s Independence Square accused then President Viktor Yanukovich of refusing to sign an association agreement with the European Union. A prolonged mass demonstration of protest called Euromaidan began.