‘Was Afghanistan Smart?’: Eric Bolling Grills John Bolton Over U.S. Foreign Policy Failures Following ‘Coups’ Comment – By Kipp Jones (Mediaite) / July 15, 2022
Newsmax TV host Eric Bolling grilled former National Security Advisor John Bolton on Friday about failures in U.S. foreign policy days after the latter casually bragged he had helped topple governments.
On CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper on Tuesday, Bolton disagreed with the host that Jan. 6 was a coup attempt by former President Donald Trump.
“As somebody who has helped plan coups d’état – not here, but other places – it takes a lot of work. And that’s not what he did,” Bolton said.
The comment went viral, as Bolton’s cavalier admission he had plotted the demise of faraway regimes was objectively shocking.
On The Balance Friday evening, Bolling repeatedly challenged the former longtime foreign policy bureaucrat and ambassador to the U.N. about his attitude toward foreign intervention.
