Former National Security Adviser John Bolton asked White House aide Fiona Hill to help distance him from the Ukraine pressure campaign during her testimony before House investigators Monday, the New York Times reported.
Nuclear Warhead to Hand Grenade: “Kettle, nice to meet you. I’m the Pot.”
tRump is now saying Bolton is out to get him… I would never have predicted this would happen… tRump is definitely loosing it more and more by the day
Bolton referred to Giuliani as a “hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up” during an earlier conversation.
Who does TRump regret the most - Rudy or Bolton?
This shows how crazy and incompetent Trump and his advisors are when they are too nuts for Bolton. I expect he will be called to testify before at least one of the House committees before this is over.
Trump has shit on so many people …and is shocked, shocked I tell you when they pick up a handful and throw it back.
Watch the cascade , Its all about self preservation
More like this:
“I saw Trump do __________, but I certainly wasn’t a part of it”
WSJ is slamming a Trump on Syria.
What a fiasco. Foreign-policy blunders often take months or years to reveal their damaging consequences, but the harm from President Trump’s abrupt with-drawal of U.S. forces from northern Syria is playing out almost in real time…
Mr. Trump is also making matters worse with his unserious justifications. “After defeating 100% of the ISIS Caliphate, I largely moved our troops out of Syria. Let Syria and Assad protect the Kurds and fight Turkey for their own land,” he tweeted Monday. “Anyone who wants to assist Syria in protecting the Kurds is good with me, whether it is Russia, China, or Napoleon Bonaparte. I hope they all do great, we are 7,000 miles away!”
We suppose the Napoleon line was a joke, but the world is laughing at an American President. Mr. Trump was able to project an image of strength in his early days as he prosecuted the war against ISIS and used force to impose a cost on Mr. Assad for using chemical weapons. But that image has faded as he has indulged his inner Rand Paul and claims at every opportu-nity that the main goal of his foreign policy is to put an end to “endless wars.”…
By now it’s not unreasonable to conclude that Mr. Trump’s foreign policy can be distilled into two tactics—sanctions and tariffs. Mr. Trump wields them willy-nilly against friend and foe alike as substitutes for diplomacy and the credible threat of military force.
Mr. Trump won’t like to hear it, but the Syrian mess is hurting him at home too. Republicans who have stood by him through the Russia fight and more are questioning his judgment as Commander in Chief in an increasingly dangerous world. With impeachment looming, he can’t afford to alienate more friends.
C’mere and let me plant a big smacker right on your mustache, you curmudgeonly chickenhawk. A statement like that coming from a person like you is pure gold. It’s a “Have you left no sense of decency?” moment that defines a situation. Mmmmmmmwah!
Enjoying the circular firing squad.
You know an administration has gone off the rails when John Bolton is the voice of reason.
This story is growing. I thought it was confined to Trump and Giuliani and his henchmen (handlers.) Then Pompeo and Perry were added to the mix. The cast of characters now includes Mulvaney. This wasn’t some side hustle. it seems US foreign policy has been completely subverted to serve Trump’s financial and political interests.
As somebody once said, everything Trump touches dies.
Now the real reason for the Bolton firing comes out.
Surely not by chance that the ad image of two rats side-by-side peering from a hole is embedded in the Rawstory link.
“People in the room took the comments to refer to an investigation that could implicate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, the people said. Both Ms. Hill and Mr. Bolton left the meeting with concerns about what had transpired, and Ms. Hill said Mr. Bolton instructed her to talk to NSC lawyer John Eisenberg,” the newspaper’s sources said.
“Sondland also appeared to be coordinating his efforts with acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Ms. Hill testified, the people said. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment,” The Journal noted.
Stealing one Seth Masket’s joke, because I can’t improve upon it.
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Genie: “You still have one wish left.” Me: “Come up with a scandal so awful that John Bolton is actually the hero.” Genie: “You’re one sick bastard, but okay."
Looks like the Russians are enjoying the moment. (via Political Wire comment)
Twitter of Russians now on the base Trump abandoned…
Yroslav Trofimov@yarotrof
2h2 hours ago
“Iran and Russia are the dominant foreign powers now. They will dictate terms in this region. Things have really changed.” Beautifully written last dispatch from the Kurdish autonomy in northern Syria.
https://twitter.com/yarotrof
As they say
Ongoing criminal conspiracy
Makes the Watergate crew look like a bunch of pikers.
Waddyamean they didn’t make any money off the crime? Amateurs
Shorter Bolton:
As I read the headline and then the story, I was torn between being appalled that Bolton might end up being a voice of decency and wondering if this is part of the gas-lighting. If it is gas-lighting, it is much more sophisticated than the previous examples that have come from this bunch.
The former national security adviser—who departed the administration last month on awful, mutually bitter terms—is working on a book about his time serving Trump, and has “a lot to dish,” one knowledgeable source noted.
No hamberders on Bolton’s menu. Sad.
Who would have predicted that joker would be the one to approximate integrity?