Donald Trump’s former security adviser admitted he “helped plan coups”

John Boltonformer National Security Advisor to former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021), acknowledged Tuesday that he participated in the organization of coups d’etat in several countries, but avoided giving examples.

Bolton was interviewed by the news network CNN to talk about the assault on Capitol Hill in January 2021 by a crowd of Trump supporters, under investigation by a congressional commission.

During heads-up play, reporter Jake Tapper said that “you don’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup,” to which the former official replied: “I disagree. As someone who helped plan the coupsnot here, but in other countries, I can say that it requires a lot of work. “

However, he didn’t delve into those experiences. When the interviewer insisted on this point, Bolton refused to comment on “specific cases” and I changed the subject of the conversation.

Then, he cited the political crisis in Venezuela in 2019, when the US government of which he was a part recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president. Regarding that episode, Bolton said that “the opposition tried to overthrow an illegitimately elected president (Nicolás Maduro) and failed.”

Furthermore, he considered “laughing” to believe that Trump, with whom he ended up fighting, “is not even the competent half of the Venezuelan opposition” to organize a coup.

Bolton, considered a Republican “hawk” in favor of US interventionism, was a National Security Advisor to the White House from 2017 to 2020, when Trump fired him for disagreements over Venezuelan politics.

How was the assault on the United States Capitol

A year and a half after the massif assault on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021Hundreds of legal and political trials continue to search for the material and intellectual culprits of what happened. And the siege of former President Donald Trump is tightening.

The investigations are divided into two large groups: on the one hand, the police (led by the FBI) ​​and the judicial persecution of hundreds of people who committed violence or vandalism that day; and on the other, the political trial that opened in the United States Congress against people of the former president’s orbit.

To date, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has filed charges against more than 700 peopleresiding in the United States, for crimes ranging from physical assault on police officers preventing them from performing their duties, to destroying government property and entering a restricted-access building.

While the FBI and Justice are dealing with the anonymous citizens who have carried out the events, the Chamber of Deputies – controlled by the Democratic Party – is carrying out a parallel investigation into what happened on January 6 and the previous days in the highest levels of the American government.

Unlike courts where legal proceedings are held against attackers, Congress has no power to sanction anyonetherefore the research is purely informative.

With information from EFE.