I've given this some more thought, and now I wonder if President Trump hasn't been engaging in some brilliant political gamesmanship here all along.
The thing that has baffled me from Day 1 with this guy (Bolton) is that he seemed so out of place in an administration where Trump's MAGA/nationalist agenda was supposed to be a breath of fresh air compared to the globalist idiocy we've seen in Washington since 1990. And John Bolton has been one of the defining figures in that globalist idiocy.
President Trump could not possibly have been naïve enough to believe he was getting an honest, objective advisor when he hired Bolton. So why did he hire him?
One possibility crossed my mind this morning: I wonder if Trump hired Bolton for the explicit purpose of firing him later at an opportune time.
We'll see if events in the future help confirm or debunk this interesting theory of mine.
I think Trump used him as a decoy and a ruse.
I think you’re spot on. Trump, lavished only praise on the man, and spoke like a man. Bolton, should heed any instinct to undermine the president.
Trump needed the other side of the argument, and I suspect Bolton was giving advice all along at the beginning, and in fact, Trump followed I think a pretty aggressive posture.
Keep in mind that this Mueller thing, and the constant barrage of resistance even from his own party at first was fierce.
Trump is too smart to have not known what he was getting himself into with Bolton.
So he hired him for a reason and most likely for some larger purpose that may be revealed to us down the road or perhaps we will never know.
Post 25 for my thoughts on Trump and Bolton.
Am I the only one who thinks maybe Yosemite Sam, shoot 'm up, Bolton was hired as National Security Adviser for optics at a time when some countries needed to be made to think Trump might just pull the trigger?