Posted on 06/22/2020 6:16:37 AM PDT by knighthawk
We need Barr / Durham to get on with it. So help me, if they drag this out beyond Nov. 3 without any, not one indictment of these scum deep staters like Brennan, Clapper, Strozk, Page, et al, we will see it all disappear possibly.
“Since we are eliminating historical figures, I propose Benedict Bolton as the new face of treason.”
I doubt he has any statues at all. The media will be clamoring to have some put up, though.
I'm smart. I can do things. Not dumb like Trump.
Yes, it will all certainly disappear after the election unless something substantive gets done before then, preferably before Labor Day.
Personally, I’m beginning to suspect that there might actually be no such thing as a Durham.
Just a shadowy prosecutor that we continue to hear about, but whom no one has ever actually met. Just an avatar, stood up in front of an office where dozens of criminals are being allowed to just resign from their jobs, so they can accept future positions when the current Shadow President regains office.
McGarland really”gets” Trump’s idiosyncratic way of doing things.
Bolton is a NEOCON GOP Establishment guy.... Yes he’s more hawkish and confrontational with some globalists than others, but he’s part of the old guard, make no mistake about it...
Now that he and Trump have broken up, his goal is to restore the old guard back to power so he can get. his prestige and power back....
So, he’s a full on NeverTrumper now, in hopes that when Trump is gone, he’ll be back to his old ways and power. If he can do something to actively hasten Trump’s demise, he’ll do it.
Certainly shown his true colors.
If Biden wins, what happens in the ME will be the least of our worries.
On Election Day 2016... I asked John if he had already voted, to which he replied, "Yes, for Trump. He's an idiot, but anybody is better than Hillary Clinton." That's why I had my doubts when Bolton lobbied so aggressively for and became President Trump's national security adviser less than two years later.
That’s the best explanation I’ve seen. Bolton didn’t know it, but Trump was using him as the “bad cop”, with Trump as the good cop, in a classic good cop-bad cop negotiating ploy.
Bolton seems to have had a lot of people fooled.
KT McFarland was close to him, and she was on several talkshows around the time of the impeachment hearing, stating Bolton would never betray the President.
“That’s not John. I know him and he would never help give the Democrats the government...”
She was wrong. Bolton turned out to be a self-serving ego maniac, who thought he was the President, instead of serving the real President’s policies.
Knowing how he feels about foreign policy and knowing he realizes what will happen to foreign policy in a Biden Admin., I consider him a traitor. I know, technically, the term doesn’t wholly fit, but I consider him a traitor, nonetheless.
[Knowing how he feels about foreign policy and knowing he realizes what will happen to foreign policy in a Biden Admin., I consider him a traitor. I know, technically, the term doesn’t wholly fit, but I consider him a traitor, nonetheless.]
I will credit Bolton with the fact that he decided not to come out with this book during the impeachment process. I doubt the Senate trial would have mustered the 2/3 majority necessary to remove Trump, but his allegations would have gotten more attention, damaging Trump’s re-election chances far more. My impression is that Bolton wants to remind Trump as to why it was a mistake to screw with him, without actually inflicting a fatal wound. That aversion to the Democrats is another reason he did *not* say he is voting for Biden.
“That aversion to the Democrats is another reason he did *not* say he is voting for Biden.”
He is on his book tour, tearing down the President, fully. That is worth more than his vote in Bethesda, Md.
Bolton has zero principles, and that includes his views on foreign policy. If they truly mattered to him, he’d never damage the President, knowing the alternative is a weak and feckless ForPol.
Bolton, has gone from respected conservative foreign policy expert, to non credible loon. Nobody will ever respect him again. The Left thinks he sold out. The Right thinks he is disloyal and can’t see the bigger picture.
Trump showed him respect by appointing him, despite having different views. Bolton didn’t get his way and went to his room like a child. I actually agree with Bolton that we should have hit Iran, in some fashion. But, I’m not the President and neither was Bolton.
He is merely an egotistical academic, who had the audacity to believe that he was going to run his own foreign policy. I highly suspect that he was a leaker, based on his interview responses.
Apparently his ego is every bit as big as Trump’s. And he let his ego prevail as he does all he can do to see the defeat of Trump and the resulting weak on China policy that would obviously take hold with Biden. Trade deals dead. Any semblance of Border Security dead. Respect internationally, dead.
He sold his soul as an American and he will always be looked upon as a thin skinned, disloyal traitor, whether Trump wins, and especially if Trump loses.
If Biden should win, I look forward to questioning him at and AEI or Heritage Foundation conference.
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