INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
John Bolton, a former United States ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said on Tuesday that
he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries.Bolton made the remarks to CNN after the day&s congressional hearing into the
January 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol
The panel&s lawmakers on Tuesday accused former President Donald Trump of inciting the violence in a last-ditch bid to remain in power after
losing the 2020 election, VOA reported.Speaking to CNN, however, Bolton suggested Trump was not competent enough to pull off a &carefully
planned coup d&état,& later adding: &As somebody who has helped plan coups d&état — not here but you know [in] other places — it takes
And that&s not what he [Trump] did.In 2019, Bolton as national security adviser publicly supported Venezuelan opposition leader Juan
Guaido&s call for the military to back his effort to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro, arguing that Maduro&s re-election was
Ultimately Maduro remained in power, VOA reported.I feel like there&s other stuff you&re not telling me [beyond Venezuela],& the CNN anchor
said, prompting a reply from Bolton: &I&m sure there is.Many foreign policy experts have over the years criticized Washington&s history of
interventions in other countries, from its role in the 1953 overthrowing of then Iranian nationalist prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and
the Vietnam war, to its invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan this century, VOA reported.But it is highly unusual for United States officials
to openly acknowledge their role in stoking unrest in foreign countries.John Bolton, who&s served in highest positions in the United States
government, including UN ambassador, casually boasting about he&s helped plan coups in other countries,& Dickens Olewe, a BBC journalist
from Kenya, wrote on Twitter.The post Former senior US official admits to planning attempted foreign coups first appeared on Ariana News.
