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Not sure why John Bolton would admit to planning foreign coups to defend Trump, but it happened [1]
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Date: 2022-07-13
Responding to Tapper’s comment that “one doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup,” Bolton said: “I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coup d’etat, not here, but other places, it takes a lot of work, and that’s not what he did.”
x Jake Tapper follows up on John Bolton's past coup planning.
Bolton: "I’m not going to get into the specifics, but--"
Tapper: "Successful coups?"
Bolton brings up the failed Venezuelan coup, prompting Tapper to add: "I feel like there’s other stuff you’re not telling me." pic.twitter.com/bJAa07h8Ow — Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 12, 2022
At the end of an almost three-hour hearing of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack, Rep. Liz Cheney detailed how extremists planned and appeared to have coordinated the Capitol attack with the White House.
"President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child,” Cheney said. “Just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices."
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Atlantic magazine contributor Zeynep Tufekci, who has lived through four coups in Turkey, told NPR days after the Capitol attack that the public should be cautioned against downplaying what happened last January.
“I think people are mistaking ridiculous with not serious,” Tufekci said. Protesters looked ridiculous, angry mobs of people punctuated with those wearing horns and flag capes, “but it’s not unserious,” Tufekci said. After the mob disrupted the certification process, the majority of the GOP caucus—138 of 211 Republican representatives—voted to overthrow the results of the Pennsylvania election, “even the Pennsylvania representative who was just elected with those votes,” Tufekci said.
“These are not normal hiccups of a transition,” she added. “These are attempts to steal an election.”
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