He confessed: "I used to engage in a coup abroad"

Author:Global Times Time:2022.07.13

Former US President's National Security Affairs Assistant confessing: I have assisted in planning to engage in a coup abroad

Comprehensive Reuters and other foreign media reported that on July 12, local time, former US President's National Security Assistant John Bolton revealed in a television interview that he had assisted in planning a coup in foreign countries.

Bolton (source: visual China)

On the 12th, after a investigation and hearing on the Mountain Rihile of Congress held by the Special Committee of the House of Representatives, Bolton said in an interview with the United States CNN (CNN) that he believed that Trump tried to overthrow the 2020 US president in 2020 The method of election results describes that a meticulous coup is wrong, which is not Trump's way of doing things.

The host of the CNN program said that a person does not have to be smart to launch a coup. This prompted Bolton to brag about his past experience that he had assisted the US government to plan a coup to implement abroad. Bolton hinted that Trump was unable to launch a "carefully planned coup". He explained: "(I) as a person who has assisted the planning coup -not here (referring to the United States), but what you know is in other places -it needs to do a lot of work, and it is not him (special Trump) What I did. "

When asked the coup he talked about, Bolton said: "I don't plan to talk about specific details." The host asked if the coup was successful, and Bolton said that he mentioned Venezuela in his new book and added that he said that "The result is unsuccessful." He said: "It's not to say that we have too much relationship with it, but I saw the price that the president who tried to overthrow the illegal election of the opposition to the (Venezuela) opposition failed. The idea will make people laugh. "

Guayo (source: visual China)

Reuters pointed out that in 2019, Bolton, who served as assistant to the Trump administration's national security affairs, publicly supported the Venezuela opposition, Huan Guayo, who advocated the re -election of President Madro The country's military supports him to overthrow Maduro. But Guado finally failed, and Maduro was still in power.

Subsequently, when the host of the CNN asked, "I think there are other things (except Venezuela) you have not told me", Bolton also answered very straightforwardly: "I'm sure."

Reuters said that over the years, many foreign policy experts have criticized the history of the United States to intervene in other countries, including planning to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mozetai, launch the Vietnam War in the 1950s, and invade Iraq and Afghanistan in the early years of this century. Essence However, it is rare for U.S. officials to publicly acknowledge that they have played a role in triggering foreign riots.

Bolton (source: visual China)

For Bolton's disclosure he had assisted in planning a coup to implement a coup abroad, Dickens Olevi, a BBC reporter from Kenya, wrote on Twitter: " John Bolton, who is easily bragging about the coup in other countries. "

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