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(LifeSiteNews) — Former White House official John Bolton, who earned accolades from the legacy media for criticizing President Donald Trump in a 2020 book, raised eyebrows Tuesday when he admitted to having helped plan coups d’etat in foreign countries.
>Bolton, who served as Trump’s National Security Adviser for 17 months, made the comments during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday in which the conversation centered on the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Tapper suggested the riot was part of an orchestrated plot to overthrow the government, but Bolton pushed back, arguing, “that’s not the way Trump does things.”
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While prefacing his statement by saying that “nothing Donald Trump did after the election in connection with the lie about the election fraud, nothing is defensible,” Bolton added that “it’s also a mistake” to say that “somehow, this was a carefully planned coup d’etat aimed
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