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FIREWORKS! Bolton Hits Back – Accuses President Trump of Lying, ‘Let’s Be Clear, I Resigned!’
GP ^ | 09/10/2019 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 09/10/2019 9:50:04 AM PDT by mplc51

President Trump fired John Bolton as National Security Advisor Monday evening and made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter.

“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,” Trump said in a pair of tweets Tuesday.

A few minutes later, John Bolton fired off a tweet claiming he was the one who offered to resign Monday night.

BOLTON: I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, “Let’s talk about it tomorrow.”


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KEYWORDS: bolton; boltonfired; nsa; onlythebestpeople; resignation; trumpcabinet; trumpnsa; yourefired
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1 posted on 09/10/2019 9:50:04 AM PDT by mplc51
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To: mplc51

Trying to save face to get a tv gig


2 posted on 09/10/2019 9:51:52 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: mplc51

Who cares?


3 posted on 09/10/2019 9:52:09 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: mplc51

I honestly would not be surprised if Bolton did resign, and Trump did fire him.

It goes something like this (bolton version):
Bolton: I quit!
Trump: You can’t quit because you’re fired!

Trump version:
Trump: You’re fired!
Bolton: You can’t fire me, because I quit!

Who knows? I also don’t really care.


4 posted on 09/10/2019 9:52:30 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: mplc51

I’m just happy he’s gone. Don’t go away mad, just go away.


5 posted on 09/10/2019 9:52:32 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: personalaccts

Your fired no I am not I quit.

Ok works for me.


6 posted on 09/10/2019 9:52:56 AM PDT by riverrunner ( o the public,)
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To: mplc51

NOT following Thumper’ Moms rule: If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all. Will John have a memoir coming out soon?


7 posted on 09/10/2019 9:53:00 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: mplc51

Glad the old war-monger is gone.


8 posted on 09/10/2019 9:53:20 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: cuban leaf

It was not a good marriage. Whether or not you like Bolton’s hard line style (which I did at times), he was going to be constantly at odds with Trump who is trying to extract us from Afghanistan and elsewhere.


9 posted on 09/10/2019 9:54:11 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Thank Tucker.


10 posted on 09/10/2019 9:56:02 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: mplc51

Will Bolton team up with Scaramucci?


11 posted on 09/10/2019 9:56:14 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: LS

Nice John call Trump a liar and help the Rats you say are destroying your country.


12 posted on 09/10/2019 9:56:49 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: mplc51

John Bolton gone? Well, he WAS a person of strong opinions and something of a hawk, but there can only be one Alpha male in the room, and he wasn’t it.

You CAN’T fire me, I quit!

Like that changes the outcome.


13 posted on 09/10/2019 9:56:50 AM PDT by alloysteel (Nowhere in the Universe is there escape from the consequences of the crime of stupidity.)
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To: ryderann

no


14 posted on 09/10/2019 9:57:30 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: mplc51

People in the government are such babies, they think their still in HS.


15 posted on 09/10/2019 9:59:12 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: cuban leaf

Funny! but true...

Just saw this on Instapundit:

J.P. Freire of the Federalist tweets, “Press is about to go from ‘John Bolton is a radical warmonger who never should be permitted near the Oval Office’ to ‘This is a story of how a reasonable, respected expert was dismissed by a chaotic, megalomaniacal Administration, and whatever his critique is, we agree!’”


16 posted on 09/10/2019 9:59:28 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, all Democrats are communists.)
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To: mplc51

Offering to resign rather than changing one’s behavior is a firing offense. Sounds to me like Bolton was fired.


17 posted on 09/10/2019 10:00:51 AM PDT by William Tell
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To: ryderann

We have a lot of Scaramucci and Bolton fans here.

Thank goodness he is gone.


18 posted on 09/10/2019 10:00:59 AM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: personalaccts
-- Trying to save face to get a tv gig --

He gets a better gig if orange man bad fires him. Maybe just marginally better - the best pay goes to those who will color Trump as nuts, loose cannon, unhinged, unfit, dangerous, etc.

19 posted on 09/10/2019 10:01:08 AM PDT by Cboldt
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John, nobody cares why you are not at your desk, you ain't got no desk, move on.

Put on your big boy pants, and go get TV gig.

If you want to bash Trump, go to cnnmsnbc, and you can call him all kinds of names.

20 posted on 09/10/2019 10:01:09 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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