In an interview with CNN on July 12, John Bolton, the former national security chief for ex-President Donald Trump, was asked about the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Bolton said it was a “mistake” to call the mob assault a “carefully planned coup d'état” by his ex-boss.
“As somebody who has helped plan coups d'état — not here, but, you know, other places — it takes a lot of work, and that’s not what [Trump] did,” Bolton said.
The Kremlin seized on Bolton’s comment for propaganda purposes.
On July 13, Russia’s state-owned news agency RIA Novosti put out a story with reaction by anonymous Twitter users who criticized U.S. foreign policy.
Only one actually expressed sympathy for Putin, yet RIA Novosti headlined its article: “Americans supported Putin after Bolton’s words about coups.”
That is false. In fact, Putin’s approval rating in the U.S. is practically zero. Polls show that his global ratings have nose-dived since he launched the war on Ukraine.
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