I couldn't find a direct video, but he called for regime change in 2018 for Iran.
"I'm not going to get into the specifics," Bolton said, before mentioning Venezuela. "It turned out not to be successful. Not that we had all that much to do with it but I saw what it took for an opposition to try and overturn an illegally elected president and they failed," he said.
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 illegitimate. Ultimately Maduro remained in power.
"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."
He also cited his personal experience as a good reason to disbelieve GOP (or at least capitol-hill like agitation where you bring a bunch of commited civlians to commit a terrorist act) abilities...
He also cited his personal experience as a good reason to disbelieve GOP (or at least capitol-hill like agitation where you bring a bunch of commited civlians to commit a terrorist act) abilities to succesfully perform a coup d'etát. From this CNN segment on a tweet:
"One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup."
John Bolton: "I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coup d’etat, not here, but other places, it takes a lot of work."
If his goal was to come across as a Great Value brand Henry Kissinger, he still failed.
Well, I've seen Kissinger described as the Forrest Gump of war crimes, hard to live up (down?) to that.
I couldn't find a direct video, but he called for regime change in 2018 for Iran.
He also cited his personal experience as a good reason to disbelieve GOP (or at least capitol-hill like agitation where you bring a bunch of commited civlians to commit a terrorist act) abilities to succesfully perform a coup d'etát. From this CNN segment on a tweet: