Bolton Alleges Trump Lacked ‘Competence’ For Office In New Interview | Talking Points Memo

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton ripped President Trump in an interview with ABC News about his tell-all memoir that provides an account of his 17 month stint working in the Trump White House, saying the president was unfit for office and had made reelection his sole focus.


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Bolton Alleges Trump Lacked ‘Competence’ For Office In New Interview

Thank you for your profound insight, Captain Obvious.

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Mmmkay.

Yeah, not buying the book.

Knew that shit about him without working with him.

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Alleges?

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So, Bolton was a crazy warmonger and Trump Incompetent.

  • and this state of affairs managed to suprise them both?
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Really, those guys should get a room. Maybe that’s where Stephan Miller came from?

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" Bolton Alleges Trump Lacked ‘Competence’ For Office In New Interview"
No surprises to this choir.

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Tell us something we all know. We all know Trump is not fit to be President. Trump is not fit to be President of a local school board.

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Bolton is a vile man on many levels, too many to count.

And the fact that he’s helping push IMPOTUS into a meltdown does not ameliorate his vileness one bit.

Here’s hoping the Orange Excresence strokes out and Bolton doesn’t see his book money (also that IMPOTUS does get it either…)

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And again, it’s worth pointing out that Bolton could maybe have expedited Trump’s removal by agreeing to testify at the impeachment trial instead of teasing his book.

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Trump will undoubtedly shoot back that nyah nyah no incompetent no incompetent you’re the incompetent Bush fired you LIKE A DOG.

See, in Trump’s world, dogs are always getting fired. You’d have to ask him how that works exactly.

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You’d think he’d be a cat person, wouldn’t you?

[You can make your own “obscene term for a woman’s genitalia” joke here.]

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Before he was elected we knew he was incompetent. Nothing new.

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The Times review of Bolton’s book said it was by turns tedious and unhinged, and just generally poorly written. I think it would be interesting to read just to get a better idea of how well or poorly Bolton’s mind actually operates. So many politicians (Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell) have reputations for being a genius, a wonk, or having some special skill that does not hold up well under examination.

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That much was obvious before he was elected president, and it had already been confirmed before Bolton agreed to go to work for him. Why the disappointment? Would not be more honest for Bolton to say, yeah I knew he was clown, but I though I could manipulate him into doing the neo-con biding. And no John Bolton cannot claim he took the job out of sense of duty towards the country.

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For the moment Bolton is causing a spewing on Trump’s twitter account. I will take it.

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“Why is Jared calling Mexicans?” — John Kelly

From Josh Dawsey’s WAPO article yesterday.

At one point, Bolton says he learned that Kushner was going to be calling the finance minister of Turkey because he was also Erdogan’s son-in-law.

“I briefed Pompeo and Mnuchin on this new ‘son-in-law channel’ and they both exploded. Pompeo was furious, Bolton writes, “because this was one more example of Kushner’s doing international negotiations he shouldn’t have been doing (along with the never quite ready Middle East peace plan).”

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Him? A cat person? I’m a cat person and I can tell you no self-respecting cat would consent to be in the same room with him. They’re excellent judges of character, most of them, and they’d pick up on the inner violence and desire to cause pain.

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Which room? The room where it happened? This still has not been revealed as far as I can tell.

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You have to remember that it’s a Republican version of a “special” skill.

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