That happens a lot when one wants to ascertain the heart of the matter. There have been stories of officers offering resignations at the voice of their superiors’ displeasure only to have their resignations refused. Trump wanted to make a public example of Bolton over this instead of the usual,”he did great work but there was mutual realization that our directions were at variance...ect...ect..!”
I wonder if Bolton criticized Ivanka and Jared; that would have been a bad move!
Bolton can now take the job that he wanted all along ... to be a foreign policy advisor to the campaign of Joe Walsh or Mark Sanford.