Tag: John Bolton
Bolton: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is a ‘Mistake’
“Marjorie Taylor Greene is now the face of the Republican Party and it’s a mistake. There are some people who like what she does and that’s why she does it. But the vast majority of people — and especially people who are temperamentally Republicans but have been pushed away by Trump and others — react negatively to that kind of behavior, understandably. It’s a mistake.”
— Former national security adviser John Bolton, quoted by NBC News.
Vulgarian, Contrarian, Not Authoritarian
Donald Trump has always impressed us as a classless vulgarian,
His political views are those of a narcissistic contrarian.
And when it comes to brains,
Trump comes up lame.
John Bolton says, “He’s not smart enough to be an authoritarian.”
Bolton: Trump Was a ‘Useful Idiot’ for Putin
“The Leninist phrase is ‘useful idiot,’ and they haven’t forgotten that in Moscow.”
— Former National Security Adviser John Bolton told Bill Press that he thinks Vladimir Putin may have waited to invade Ukraine because he thought Donald Trump would win reelection and pull the U.S. out of NATO.
Bolton’s ‘Deep Swamp Revenge Porn’
“This is deep swamp revenge porn on the part of John Bolton.”
— White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, quoted by CNN, on John Bolton’s new tell-all book.
Kelly Believes Bolton
“If John Bolton says that in the book I believe John Bolton… John’s an honest guy. He’s a man of integrity and great character, so we’ll see what happens.”
— When asked if former National Security Adviser John Bolton should testify at President Trump’s impeachment trial, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said that he supports calling witnesses, the Sarasota Herald Tribune reports.
Pelosi Warns Senate Not to Be ‘Complicit’ in Trump’s Coverup
“The President and Sen. McConnell have run out of excuses. They must allow key witnesses to testify, and produce the documents Trump has blocked, so Americans can see the facts for themselves. The Senate cannot be complicit in the President’s cover-up.”
— Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement about John Bolton’s offer to testify in a Senate impeachment trial.
Bolton’s Loss Doesn’t Matter in the ‘Age of Trump’
“The spectacle of the Trump Presidency often overwhelms our ability to process the stakes of any individual episode. But the firing of John Bolton was not just another Washington farce in what the President himself has now started calling, as he did the other day, on Twitter, ‘the Age of Trump.’ Bolton’s exit serves as a reminder that the intensive national-security decision-making process of previous Presidents, Republican and Democrat alike, has been abandoned by Trump, subverted to the Presidential ego, and will not return for the duration of his tenure.”
— Susan Glasser
Neocon Crackpot Cashiered
Now he of the white bushy mustache is gone,
Before he could start a war with Korea or Iran.
Apparently Trump finally balked
At suggestions from the Bolton hawk,
But we won’t miss your mustache or neocon notions, John.
Bolton Gets Turked
Trump dispatched Bolton to Turkey, all hopeful,
That he could mansplain Trump’s Syrian “withdrawal.”
But Erdogan, alas,
Gave Bolton a pass,
To remind Trump that it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople!
