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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/05/30/bye-bye-bolton/Good article if you can pull up link...
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By Daniel W. Drezner
May 30 at 7:00 AM
We are far enough into the Trump administration to know how the script usually plays out when a cabinet officer or high-ranking staffer is on the outs with the president. First, Trump asks everyone within his orbit what he thinks of the imperiled official. Second, reports of Trumps dissatisfaction hit the press. Third, those stories often contain incidents of Trump mocking the official on the chopping block. Fourth, Trump denies everything and claims it to be fake news. Fifth, Trump fires the person.
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To be fair, sometimes the script is not that rote. Staffers like Gary Cohn and Don McGahn managed to infuriate the president but depart on their own accord. The same was true of Nikki Haley. Rod Rosenstein managed to wheedle his way back into Trumps good graces. And sometimes the gap between Step Four and Step Five can be long and agonizing. John Kelly was on the outs with Trump for much of 2018 but managed to hang around until December.
This brings us to national security adviser John Bolton. Reports about dissatisfaction with Bolton have been percolating for a while now. As Bolton husbanded control of the national security decision-making process, resentment among other policy principals has grown. There have been multiple accounts of friction between Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that have little to do with policy and everything to do with style. After the failed transition in Venezuela, my Post colleagues Anne Gearan, Josh Dawsey, John Hudson and Seung Min Kim noted The presidents dissatisfaction has crystallized around national security adviser John Bolton and what Trump has groused is an interventionist stance at odds with his view that the United States should stay out of foreign quagmires.
Now, Bolton faces the dreaded confirmation of Trump dissatisfaction in the form of a Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman story in the New York Times. The good parts version:
Unlike General McMaster, Mr. Bolton figured out how to brief Mr. Trump in a more effective way, according to administration officials, but the two have never bonded on a personal level, which is so important in this White House. Mr. Trump is not fond of Mr. Bolton, according to a half-dozen advisers and associates, and he makes no secret of it in private....
Skittles
(153,176 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...Henry Kissinger is a bit too old. Triron Lannister would fit in perfectly, but I doubt he's an American citizen. The same goes for Dr Doom. Maybe Cheney is all we have left...
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)His lifes goal in tatters
sop
(10,231 posts)n/t
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)nervous with this Sucker. They know darn well we would not dare to attack or invade Iran. Iran has a standing army of 3 million and as a Monolith Nation of Persian's We would be screwed from the get go. Seems to me,Ponzi Don cleaned out all the Persian speaking Troops some time back.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)sop
(10,231 posts)Like a mafia don, it wouldn't shock me to learn Trump ordered hits over the years. It's why he envies and admires Kim and Putin: they rub out opponents with impunity.
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldnt lose any voters, okay?" was more of a Freudian slip than an idle boast.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)NBachers
(17,135 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Such a straight talking tough guy, who runs to his flunky courtier underlings to start a smear campaign vs who he wants to vote off the island.
'O.K. Let's go around the circle, why do we all hate Ashley and think she should be off the cheerleading squad?' 'Whoops, I almost forgot. First go around the circle, why you all think I'm great and the bestest president. Then we'll get rid of NSA Ashley.'
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)davekriss
(4,626 posts)Who on this planet does not know about Bomb Bomb Bolton?
The presidents dissatisfaction has crystallized around national security adviser John Bolton and what Trump has groused is an interventionist stance at odds with his view that the United States should stay out of foreign quagmires.
Trump is just nowgrousing Boltons interventionist stance? Thats what Boltons known for, his militaristic interventionist positions.
area51
(11,919 posts)#PresidentBolton