[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.