Trump Fires John Bolton Over Taliban Talks Disagreement
I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore....
...I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week.
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NBC News is reporting that the firing came because Bolton did not agree with the aborted Taliban negotiations last week.
Trump hates people with knowledge, and if they're not sycophants ... forget it. You can only tell Trump what he wants to hear, which is dangerous in a president.
Did you read the tweet Pence supposedly put out - which was clearly written by Trump? It's a clear sign of his narcissistic personality disorder that this crap doesn't even embarrass him. He couldn't care less when he's caught in a lie.
You liked John Bolton ?
I thought Liberals thought him to be too big of a "Hawk" and someone to be loathed, especially during the Iraq War !
So many 1000's of articles about "Liberals" hate of John Bolton !
Liberals should be throwing a Party right now over this TRUMP decision !
Or...Like the Comey firing.....TRUMP DID IT, TRUMP DID IT....is all Liberals really Loath ?
Yep, now the libbies are all in love with Bolton, the hawk, whose only experience or interest in life is going to war, or prolonging one..
They refuse to believe that Trump wants less foreign involvement and bringing most of the troops home from that shit hole region.
However, the great unwashed masses the left is counting on to get them into the WH knows better
Trump hates people with knowledge
Try to show us how Bolton had any foreign policy knowledge that would be in the best interests of the US?
AOC (dumber than dirt), Talib (Fuck America), Omar (Incest and home wrecker), Pressley (I'll follow what AOC, Talib and Omar says), and the entire group running for president, including the leader of that group, Joe (Brain Dead) Biden.
The "Left" is just great.
They already did....and they ain't even blonde.
I thought you supported Trump and his decisions. Did someone force Trump to make Bolton his NSA?
You left Bernie (BDS supporter) Sanders off the list.
Sorry ….. there's just so many "Liberal type Dolts".....so little time.
So you are defending Bolton?/S
I am happy that Bolton is gone. Maybe we can continue getting the hell out of Afghanistan- something that should have been done a long time ago.
If Bolton and Trump clashed repeatedly, then Bolton had to go. He wouldn't resign so he was fired. Or do you think some of those that resigned while working for the Obama administration wouldn't have been fired if they hadn't left on their own accord?
i'd defend the bolts in Frankensteins' neck
I am hoping you are being sarcastic and aren't trying to imply anything remotely close to that statement.
Bolton is a known quantity, Bolton should never have been hired in the first place.
Because Trump cannot abide by anyone disagreeing with him. Trump can never and will never admit to being wrong about anything. Anyone that says Trump is wrong, will not be around Trump for long.
Are you sure???
READ: John Bolton's resignation letter
There is absolutely no evidence to support that claim. You are being disingenuous and misleading with that statement.
Trump has a revolving door in his administration and cabinet, it has gotten so bad that nobody wants the jobs, which is why the best he can do is either "acting" employees, hiring relatives, or hiring from FoxNews.
while not a fan of bolton, I was disappointed that the world's greatest negotiator didn't fly to afghanistan himself to talk peace with the taliban, behind closed doors of course.
This has been coming for a long time as evidenced by this June 21, 2019 article.
The untenability of President Bolton
Well Curt Mills apparently predicted this correctly. Will he be correct about Macgregor also?
this isn't done yet, plenty of acrimony left with those 2 over inflated egos. after using a rwnj media outlet as a springboard, bolton will announce his run for the white house in the near future. start a PAC, milk some cash from the never trumpers, and walk with most of it after getting blown out of the fascist primaries by signing 2 pieces of paper.
Bolton's departure should drop oil prices....
That's funny, I would think you would want people to keep more money in their pockets by having lower pump prices.
I would figure that you would want companies to reduce their transportation costs too which would go right to the bottom line.
And the dumpster fire at the white house continues unabated...
Bolton will back at the non partisan AEI, FOX News and Gatestone Institute in a matter of days, if not hours. (/s)
He will be taking credit for getting the USA to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal
and the President will call him a worthless liar on Twitter for the next few weeks.
The CIA, as usual will deny knowing anything about waterboarding or Russian spies because THAT is what spy agencies do.
Deny, deflect and deny again.
Just another news cycle...
I agree with most of what you said, though calling Fox News "non-partisan" is like calling super glue "non-stick"...
hence the ( /s )
Trump has also Fired Michael Bolton, because his name sounded vaguely familiar to that of Johns.
Never been a fan of Bolton, John or Michael, but he did at least have experience in foreign affairs, and Trump seems to dig him some affairs, Foreign and Domestic, just like he digs his enemies, Foreign and Domestic !
That's overdue, frankly.
Perhaps it was preemptive for Michael Bolton's upcoming Trump tribute album with such songs as "When a Ham Loves a Woman", "I Touched You...There... I'm a Star so they let me do it", "Said I Loved You, But I Lied, 12,000 Times", "Time, Love and Putin's Tenderness", "Fathers & Daughters, Getting It On...", "Steel Bars, Is What You'll Be Seeing Soon" and the classic "Pee on Me, I'll be Your Friend".
The goof does like to say
I'm lovin' it! You gonna miss uncle Boltie, aka the Moustache Man??
Not in this lifetime, nor the next.
Did he fire him in person this time, or was it by tweet....again?
it's certainly confusing.
Bolton said he offered to resign the previous evening but he was at the WH for a 1PM NSC presser which the WH confirmed
around 11:30AM.
Bolton was seen in the WH driveway on his cell phone around 10:30AM, no Secret Service "escort" etc.
Trump then tweets out that he fired Bolton the evening before.
Instead of Bolton doing a press conference about national security issues,
Pompous and Munchkin held a brief briefing described by the Washington Post journalist
as a shit show ( on a hot mike).
Trump wants desperately to find some issues on which to run for re-election. 'Peace in our time' in Afghanistan is one possibiilty, as is another Rocket Man summit, maybe a Venezuelan adventure, meeting with Iran, etc. Trump is searching for something to hang his hat on.
hoefully he hands it to the hangman about to hang him man,
but, Trump's ability to slip out his loose noose while Putin puts it in his loose Caboose , is just another train
load of train wrecks Trump seamensly luvz to swallow, so seamlessly
Well he seems very interested in hiking the "Tallahassee Trail", perhaps that's in Venezuela since it certainly isn't here in America...
Shouldn't he be trying to find peaceful solutions to some of world's problems by dealing with the trouble makers.
Yep. Not surprising. Trump likes to fire people.
Still thinks he is merely playing his "Apprentice" show from the WH.
This is great news. I don’t think many will be sad to see him go.
I'm not said to see that mustache go.
Those are good!
I am not sad to see him go, he was a war hawk.
I never liked the guy.
Me neither. The sad thing is, people like him never seem to fade away.
Especially the stash
He shouldn't have ever been chosen in the first place, but his departure is just another example of how chaotic this President is. This is the 3rd National Security Advisor fired in 3 years. No other President in history has gone through so many of his own staff picks so quickly. It is more evidence of the disease that has deeply infected this white house, and the only light at the end of the tunnel is the fact that his sorry ass is getting kicked out come January 2021 at the very latest. That's if Mike Pence doesn't form a political coup from within the administration and Republican Senate, release all the damaging information we all know he's collected on this vile worthless piece of crap President which the congressional Democrats will surely use to impeach him, and then Pence will run as the Republican candidate in 2020 free of the pussy grabbing clown. If he does he'll select Nicky Hailey as his running mate and likely beat anyone the Democrats put forward.
Mike Pence will never be elected president of the United States.
1. He is completely tainted by his association with Trump. Even if he renounces Trump there are still videos of him prostrating himself as a Trump lackey..
2. There aren't enough evangelicals in America to elect him. And he would draw a massive female vote out against him.
Watch for Pence to do something like that if trmp wins in 2020.
While I agree with that statement, a Pence/Hailey ticket would likely bring back many Republicans who had defected including the huge number of Republican women who have jumped ship over the last two years. If they were smart, that's exactly what they'd do, but thankfully that's no one of their strong suits so I do doubt it'll actually happen.
In any presidential election Pence would do worse than Trump.
Not so...a very large number of women are NOT for unregulated illegal immigration,
OR for free everything to everyone that they will have to end up paying for
and DO NOT support
unrestricted abortion that could extend into the fourth "trimester".
Pence has a reputation as an anti-abortion extremist. If he runs for president he will only energize the MAJORITY that wants to protect Roe V Wade. Pence's side of the argument is a minority. You dont win elections that way.
Do you really think that lame straw man is going to stand up and walk on its own? Democrats are not for "unregulated illegal immigration", that is TOTAL bullshit. They are not for "free everything", just more lies dripping from your mouth. They DO NOT SUPPORT unrestricted abortion and there is no such thing as a "fourth trimester". Is this really what masquerades as intelligence in right wing circles? I can't really imagine most right wingers actually believe that nonsense. Most Americans want the same things, safe streets, good schools, good jobs, a secure border with a fair and legal immigration process which continues to make America even greater as we welcome diversity and support higher education and quality job training. The horse shit filled straw man you create does nothing to help real Americans, it simply further divides an already fractured society.
You refuse to admit the Democrat party has been taken over by socialistic, far left, radicals.
That's denial of the first order.
How many "socialist" members of Congress are there? If far left radicals had taken over the Democratic Party Nancy Pelosi wouldnt be speaker and Chuck Schumer wouldnt be Minority Leader in the Senate.
Your problem is you fall for right wing media and think that all Democrats are left wing radicals.
Whoever the nominee is, they will run from a center position, with looking to the future for more progressive advancements.
Watch Warren. If she wins the nomination she will run as a "centrist". America will inevitably become more progressive because that is the shape of the future, but it will be gradual.
That is a sad and moronic lie you've been fed by right wing pundits who do nothing but swim in falsehoods, hyperbole and conjecture. If you actually stopped to listen to any actual Democrat instead of listening to edited soundbites taken out of context you'd realize that. But why do something like that when you apparently enjoy having your ears tickled and constantly told "other guys bad, us guys good".
I've posted an article some time ago in which I said I thought NIki Haley should be POTUS, although she's young enough to start as Vice-P and then move up.
Don't know if this would play out - but - I think Trump would chose someone to replace Pence as his running mate in 2020.
For some reason, don't see a lot of luv 'tween those two.
Actually most women probably aren't as stupid as the folks in here who bought into that lie.
They're both immoral scumbags.
A prime example of why some might need free local junior college...
The left and Establishment Republicans hate Bolton. They all should be celebrating. Instead many see it as just another excuse to attack our President
He should have NEVER been hired in the first place.....I thought trumptard only hired the best and brightest.
Maybe trump will hire failin palin since she's getting a divorce.
Ooooo!!!!! That would be a good pick for NSA!
Not Sane Alaskan? She'd be perfect!
Caribou Barbie should take Kellyanne Conjob's post just so we can have a change of scenery, and then Michelle Bachman could handle LGBT relations for the Whitehouse...
The one most guilty of misogyny is Trump himself, and coming from his own mouth. No Liberal can match him on that.
Oh stop with the moronic snark and putting words in my mouth. I said no such thing, and YOU DO know it. Trump is a misogynist well beyond any others.
Now....go ahead, have the last word. I know it makes your day, and I am too busy to play your game.
liberal misogyny?
So if you say something about AOC and The Squad, can we call it conservative misogyny?
What's misogynistic of not wanting to hear the screeching voices of these 2 women and failin palin's word salad?
I guess right-wing misogyny against Dems is A-OK though. Biased much, eh?
I asked that question and got crickets. I hope you fare better
Still no answer, so guess the answer is that it is OK for right-wingers to denigrate the Left, but, not vise versa.
Her husband is divorcing her because of incompatible temperaments, and she is a perfect temperament match for Trump. Palin is totally unqualified for Bolton's position, so she just might get it.
Yes, she could be part of the Space Farce.
My mistake, I thought you typed NASA.
Bolton had to go because Trump said he was responsible for his drop in approval from 42% to 36%.
That's trmp...always pointing the finger....
I wonder which of his relatives, ass kissers, or totally unqualified yes men he will fill the vacancy with.
Just another one of trumps "best people", fired. Seems odd, if trump only hires the best people, why does he keep firing them?
Weird.
What is odd is that some on the left are now complaining after Trump fired someone else they previously hated and wanted fired.
They aren't complaints Tex, just observations of what seems to be an almost everyday occurrence of the shit show in the WH.
Trump Fired John Bolton For Not Being Pro-Taliban Enough
In 2014 Trump tweeted that Obama was a fool for trying to negotiate with the taliban which of course led the right to scream that Obama was a Muslim. Guess that makes trump a Muslim and a fool.
Does this mean that JohnRussell has actually AGREED with something that Trump has done? Proof that miracles CAN happen.
Tucker Carlson seriously, no joke, called Bolton a leftist. The king of the warhawks, and was hired by trump....is a leftist.
And then people wonder why normal people laugh when someone shows up using fox news as fact based news... What a joke.. LOL
Of course, there are those among us who realize that Tucker Carlson is a commentator, not a newsman.
What were you doing watching Tucker Carlson? From the day Bolton was brought in I never expected him to last long. He was an advocate for intervention and the President wants as many troops brought home as possible. I wonder if this is the end of the man we used to call the ambassador? I still visualize him coming out of the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University on a Friday afternoon. Getting into that black limousine on the way to Logan Airport. That was a long time ago!
Bolton was such a hot mess even Bush and crew tired of him. Unbelievable he was ever able to get his foot back in the door but since not one intelligent person bothered to look at his record and made the foolish mistake to take him on, there can't be enough said about what bad decisions this administration has made on every front.
One thing can be said for Bolton - he's nobody's yes man. The best quality for an adviser.
Though a quality that Trump cannot countenance.
And that's why trmp fired him
Those who never liked Bolton shouldn't be suddenly lamenting his firing. Think back to when Trump hired him.
Trump fired him for policy differences. Trump knew there were differences when he hired him. It's important to hear from all perspectives, but nobody gets to make an unauthorized statement to the leader of North Korea, not even the Stache!
Trump fired him cause of his far inferior, and tremendously smaller, moustache marvel, and obviously, MUCH smaller upper lipp , respectfully.
Disrespectfully slipped by Trumps taste savior, as Trump is his own personal best taste, savior, and his own favorite taste flavor
Orange pulp fiction affliction, as he can't convey a truth depiction, to save his families life, as there can ONLY BE ONE !
Exactly! Bolton is not a yes man.
Yes same reason Truman had to fire MacArthur.
Then fuckin Obama must have hated differing opinions as well! Thanks for solving it as only you could do!
Perfect analogy, but they won't get it. Thanks Dean
I haven't seen anyone 'lamenting his firing'. Most are commenting on the fact that Trump is lying about firing Bolton.
I commented on the FACT that Trump wants yes men as advisors. Demanding that from an advisor, especially the NSA is just another illustration of Trump's narcissism.
Sure. Why did Trump hire Bolton as NSA when they disagree on almost every foreign policy issue? It's not like Bolton's opposing opinions weren't well known.
Really Dean?
Please post links to the public comments made by Bolton while NSA that contradicted Trump's policy prior to being fired.