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

Was that The Washington Times?

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Bolton is a slime mole who slimes another slime mole who happens to be our ignorant President. Did anyone not know that?

Please…ware a mask and practice social distancing. This virus is very dangerous.

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Bolton is confirming what is already known about Trump. He is unfit to be POTUS. Trump is a marketer/brander and a con man. He has never possessed the skills required to be President.

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Well, it wasn’t the Mumbai Times, that I can tell you.

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Interesting. From absolutely untrue to I don’t recollect to I don’t believe in one utterance.


Katherine Faulders
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U.S. Trade Rep. Lighthizer denied Bolton claim that Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping for help winning the election. “Absolutely untrue. Never happened. I was there. I have no recollection of that ever happening.I don’t believe it’s true.I don’t believe it ever happened.”

3:44 PM · Jun 17, 2020

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He should be held responsible and financially liable for the pathological and semi-permanent frowning of Susan Collins’ eyebrows out of concern, that he has created in her little beautiful mind.

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Is that your final answer?

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Nope, it was the NYT: “It toggles between two discordant registers: exceedingly tedious and slightly unhinged.”

The fact remains that Trump is right about Bolton in one respect: he is, indeed, a boring blowhard. But he’s not a liar.

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But Bolton has way more cache with Republican congressional politicians than say Omarosa. One of the problems Bolton may not have considered is that the younger Republicans in the house are not the same type of Republicans Bolton was used to dealing with. And for someone who is suppose to be an intelligence wonk he failed in that regard. Along with not knowing that Trump is truly an incompetent person in most regards.

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Lacked competence…

Lacked focus.
Lacked honor.
Lacked ethics.
Lacked humor.
Lacked fidelity.
Lacked morals.
Lacked wisdom.
Lacked integrity.
Lacked honesty.
Lacked gravitas.
Lacked empathy.
Lacked decorum.
Lacked experience.
Lacked common sense.
Lacked proper priorities.
Lacked good judgement.
Lacked political acumen.
Lacked geographical knowledge.

Did I miss anything?

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Bolton took notes reams and reams of notes. Lighthizer should release his own notes if he has any.

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He has more cachet, too, though I suspect he’s got a substantial cache of toilet paper in his basement.

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Oh, yes. Bolton is credible. The point that I I was trying to make is that people won’t be reading the book for its style. The book is a work of politics and will ultimately be judged on its credibility and political impact.

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He’s a lackey.

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Close enough:

Trump has responded with outrage… calling his former adviser a “fool.”

Meanwhile in tonight’s weather forecast: Dark with scattered brightening toward morning followed by full daylight…
h/t GC

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Puerto Rico was surrounded by big water
Healthcare was complicated

Well I was being specific while you were being accurate and compact.

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Maybe we can get an even more unhinged and poorly written expose of Bolton as being totally unfit for the job he was given.

“So, if he thought he could get a photo opportunity with Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone in Korea, there was considerable emphasis on the photo opportunity and the press reaction to it and little or no focus on what such meetings did for the bargaining positions of the United States.”

I know this statement is not particularly surprising to anyone here, but wonder if these kind of comments on a national interview with a mainstream journalist like Raddatz might awaken a few more people.

Here’s hoping.

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Again with the homophones, :grimacing:

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I guess he didn’t know this before signing on.

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Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

But not homophones, actually. One of them is CASH-AY and the other is just CASH.

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