{"id":128027,"date":"2019-09-11T18:38:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=128027"},"modified":"2019-09-11T18:39:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:39:47","slug":"dementia-stupidity-or-bribed-by-adelson-why-did-trump-even-appoint-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=128027","title":{"rendered":"DEMENTIA, STUPIDITY or BRIBED by Adelson: Why did Trump even appoint notorious warmonger John Bolton?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump Slams &#8216;Mr. Tough Guy&#8217; Bolton For Making &#8216;Very Big Mistakes&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>President Trump slammed just-fired\u00a0National Security Adviser John Bolton in Wednesday comments from the White House, saying he let the mustached war-hawk go after making &#8220;some very big mistakes,&#8221; and that Bolton didn&#8217;t get along with others in the administration, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/460921-trump-bolton-wasnt-in-line-with-my-agenda\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/trump%20bolton%201a.jpg?itok=sgmQLEKc\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/trump%20bolton%201a.jpg?itok=sgmQLEKc\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20bolton%201a.jpg?itok=2cvwQgit 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20bolton%201a.jpg?itok=2cvwQgit 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20bolton%201a.jpg?itok=2cvwQgit 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20bolton%201a.jpg?itok=2cvwQgit 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20bolton%201a.jpg?itok=2cvwQgit 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/trump%20bolton%201a.jpg?itok=sgmQLEKc 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/trump%20bolton%201a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0bbf16bc-aece-4126-ac26-4a17884c3e25\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, John is somebody that I actually got along with very well.\u00a0<strong>He made some very big mistakes<\/strong>,&#8221; said Trump in response to an Oval Office question following a meeting earlier to discuss the dangers of e-cigarettes and vaping.<\/p>\n<p>Trump slammed Bolton&#8217;s &#8220;Libyan model&#8221; remark in regards to North Korea as &#8220;not a good statement to make,&#8221; after the adviser suggested that\u00a0Kim Jong Un could meet the fate of former Libyan leader Mommar Gadhafi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"my_spring1\"><\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;And\u00a0<strong>it set us back<\/strong>, and frankly he wanted to do things \u2014 not necessarily tougher than me \u2014 You know John\u2019s known as a tough guy.\u00a0<strong>He\u2019s so tough he got us into Iraq<\/strong>\u00a0\u2026 but he\u2019s actually somebody I had a very good relationship with. But he wasn\u2019t getting along with people in the administration that I consider very important,&#8221; said Trump &#8211;\u00a0<strong>who blamed Kim Jong Un not wanting to work with Bolton after the Libya remark.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as he mentioned that, the Libyan model, what a disaster. Take a look at what happened to Gadhafi,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;I don\u2019t blame Kim Jong Un for what he said after that. And he wanted nothing to do with John Bolton. And\u00a0<strong>that&#8217;s not a question of being tough. That\u2019s a question of being\u00a0<u>not smart to say something like that<\/u>.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid982689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aFJKf8Dl48w?start=21\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump suggested that the two may not have parted ways on good terms, telling reporters &#8220;I hope we left on good stead, but maybe we haven\u2019t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside id=\"in-content-dianomi\" class=\"placement placement-embedded placement-dianomi\"><\/aside>\n<blockquote><p>Trump tweeted Tuesday that he had fired Bolton by telling him Monday evening\u00a0&#8220;that his services are no longer needed at the White House,\u201d pointing to disagreements with the national security adviser and others in the administration.<\/p>\n<p>But Bolton immediately disputed his account, tweeting that he offered to resign on Monday and that Trump had asked to talk about it the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton resigned effective immediately on Tuesday, according to a copy of his brief resignation letter.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Wednesday he thought Bolton would try to \u201cspin it his way,\u201d claiming that he asked for Bolton\u2019s resignation at a meeting in the Oval Office on Monday. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/460921-trump-bolton-wasnt-in-line-with-my-agenda\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump said on Wednesday that he would announce Bolton&#8217;s replacement next week, and that there are five candidates under consideration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a lot of good people who want that position,&#8221; said Trump, adding &#8220;Well, I have five people who want it very much.\u00a0There are five people I consider very qualified, good people I have gotten to know over the past three years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Slams &#8216;Mr. Tough Guy&#8217; Bolton For Making &#8216;Very Big Mistakes&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}