Curt Mills, National Interest: Bolton Defends Putin Meeting, Planned Trump Summit
The national security advisor, a hardliner, has always been a vehement foe of talks with America’s strategic adversaries.
John Bolton, the president’s hardline national security advisor said to have fallen out of the White House inner circle after Donald Trump’s rapprochement with North Korea, was dispatched to Russia Wednesday, and took to the podium to defend a course on Moscow he had previously decried. During the presidential transition in late 2016, having just been passed on for secretary of state and national security advisor, Bolton said recent Russian sanctions didn’t go far enough . But Bolton has said repeatedly that he is not the president, and that he will, in his new role, defer to Donald Trump, who clearly favors improved relations with Moscow.
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2 comments:
Obviously Mueller will have to lengthen his investigations to check this out. Seriously lots of Dems will be saying this.
Bolton, for all his flaws, is an American patriot. He knows America MUST have peace with Russia. As such, "defending" the summit is a no brainer.
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