John Bolton: Swamp Creature

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Septic said:
I didn't say anything about the MSM at all, they aren't the White House insiders writing books about Trump being an incompetent buffoon.

The only 'balance' would come from WH insiders writing books challenging the constant flow of criticism from those people who know Trump best.
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Right but you responded to someone that did. Did you not catch that? Maybe I should give myself more credit.
 
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KT McFarland: Trump and Bolton – this is when I knew it wasn't going to end well
On Election Day 2016 I was in the green room at Fox News in midtown Manhattan waiting to go on the air, as was Ambassador John Bolton.
I asked John if he had already voted, to which he replied, “Yes, for Trump. He’s an idiot, but anybody is better than Hillary Clinton.”
That’s why I had my doubts when Bolton lobbied so aggressively for and became President Trump’s national security adviser less than two years later.
I figured it would be a rocky ride for them both and predicted it wouldn’t end well.
First, they had very different approaches to foreign policy. Trump’s first priority was to rebuild the economy, then use it as leverage to renegotiate trade deals. He would use the bully pulpit to get our security allies to increase their contributions to our mutual defense.
What he would not do was get us bogged down in more forever wars. Trump was an outspoken critic of Bush’s Iraq war, Bolton one of its architects. I once asked Bolton whether his child had considered military service. He looked at me dismissively and said, “No, of course not.” So, it was all right for other people’s children to fight in his forever wars, just not his own.
Bolton and Trump clashed from the beginning – not just over policy, but in style and temperament. Bolton pushed for preemptive military action against Iran, Syria, Venezuela and North Korea. When the president took a different course, Bolton took to the phone. He became the “anonymous source” for reporters, dishing out tales of White House chaos and presidential incompetence.
Bolton was so convinced of his superior intelligence that he was condescending to everyone, including the president. He was increasingly isolated within the West Wing; cabinet officers ignored him and went behind his back directly to the president. He even avoided contact with his own National Security Council staff.
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evillawyer said:
Who knew that giving dead-on-arrival, unliked wackos a second chance = hiring only the best. MAGA!



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I haven’t looked but I’m sure his hiring was the one time everybody broke with Trump and agreed with Ras that he was a terrible hire.
 
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John Bolton just revealed Donald Trump's dirty little secret


"Whether you like John Bolton or not, it's impossible to deny that he is someone who spent almost 18 months in very close proximity to President Donald Trump. And someone who in meetings in which major decisions about national security and foreign policy were made.

Which is why these lines from Bolton -- from his interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz that ran Sunday -- regarding how Trump conducted the business of being president are so incredibly striking:

"There really isn't any guiding principle -- that I was able to discern other than -- what's good for Donald Trump's reelection.

"Now, look, you can't take the politics out of politics. It plays a role in every aspect of decision making in the executive branch. But there's no coherent basis, no strategy, no philosophy. And decisions are made in a very scatter-shot fashion, especially in the potentially mortal field of national security policy. This is a danger for the republic."

What those lines confirm is something I've long believed: There is no secret plan that Trump is operating against. He isn't playing three-dimensional chess. He's playing zero-dimensional chess. He's just, well, doing stuff. And seeing what sticks.
 
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MontyPython said:
John Bolton just revealed Donald Trump's dirty little secret


"Whether you like John Bolton or not, it's impossible to deny that he is someone who spent almost 18 months in very close proximity to President Donald Trump. And someone who in meetings in which major decisions about national security and foreign policy were made.

Which is why these lines from Bolton -- from his interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz that ran Sunday -- regarding how Trump conducted the business of being president are so incredibly striking:

"There really isn't any guiding principle -- that I was able to discern other than -- what's good for Donald Trump's reelection.

"Now, look, you can't take the politics out of politics. It plays a role in every aspect of decision making in the executive branch. But there's no coherent basis, no strategy, no philosophy. And decisions are made in a very scatter-shot fashion, especially in the potentially mortal field of national security policy. This is a danger for the republic."

What those lines confirm is something I've long believed: There is no secret plan that Trump is operating against. He isn't playing three-dimensional chess. He's playing zero-dimensional chess. He's just, well, doing stuff. And seeing what sticks.
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In other words, Trump wouldn't bomb who Bolton wanted and go to war at the drop of a hat. Not saying that Trump has been perfect with regards to foreign policy, but he is far better than Hillary or Biden.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
In other words, Trump wouldn't bomb who Bolton wanted and go to war at the drop of a hat. Not saying that Trump has been perfect with regards to foreign policy, but he is far better than Hillary or Biden.
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Trump is better? Not sure I buy that...

(1) North Korea. No better, just stupid war of words and fake posturing. DRAW
(2) Russia. Trump's buddies. You do agree their our enemies, right? Donald, not so much. LOSE
(3) China. What a clusterf*ck. Don't google, and immediately tell me where we stand on tariffs from Mr. Tariff Man? Disaster. All smoke and mirrors. LOSE
(4) Syria. Let em all die, I guess. LOSE
(5) Iran. Was in a nuclear non-development agreement, but Trump threw that out the window. LOSE
(6) Venezuela. Trump totally screwed the pooch here. Secretly said he thought it was a good idea "if we invaded" the place. DRAW
(7) Mexico/Canada. Take that Rapists!!! LOSE morally / WIN financially
(8) European Allies. Throws out long-held alliances and trade agreements. NATO bad? LOSE next war / WIN financially
(9) UN. Threatens to defund. I don't even know where we stand. WIN
 
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Maybe Bolton was hired to appease the Neocons in his administration. Still, it's one of the most baffling hires of the Trump Presidency. The dude is literally the very definition of a swamp rat. A man who is willing to backstab in order to gain political favor or a nice book deal.

Also, from a foreign policy perspective, the two are diametrically opposite from each other.

Terrible hire and terrible fit from the outset.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
In other words, Trump wouldn't bomb who Bolton wanted and go to war at the drop of a hat. Not saying that Trump has been perfect with regards to foreign policy, but he is far better than Hillary or Biden.
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How do you know that? Have Hillary or Biden been President and had the ability to order bombing? No.
 
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rekinhavoc said:
Bolton's lips were moving so I'm gonna say BS. Nikki Haley doesn't seem the type to take that kind of sh!t or let that kind of rumor lie. Let's see if she or Tillerson respond.
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I don't trust Nikki Haley I think she's another garden variety RINO Neocon just like Marco Rubio.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
The crying section is over there 👉🏼
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John Bolton will probably switch over to the Democrats when President Trump wins reelection on November 3rd. Neocons were all Democrats before 1972 when they decided that George McGovern was too radical for them. They all voted for Humbert Humphrey in 1968 and Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
 
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GVF said:
Bolton is a twit. Never, evert trust a man with that kind of 'stache.
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