Quote (balrog66 @ Jun 18 2020 03:09am)
List of claims by Bolton:
Tweeting and publicly voicing support for MBS in the aftermath of the Khashoggi murder to distract from Ivanka's emails on an unsecured device Meh
Saying journalists are bad people who should be shot or imprisoned until they reveal sources Joke
Buying Putin's manipulations about Maduro because he compared Guaidó to Hillary Clinton Embarrassing
Putting Jared Kushner on the phone with Turkey's finance minister because they were both the leaders' sons-in-law, although he had no qualifications other than nepotism Meh
Telling Erdogan and Xi he would make investigations of Turkish and Chinese companies go away once he got "his people" in offices like the Southern District of New York (this caused Bolton to meet with Barr, who agreed it was troubling) Troubling
Violating US sanctions on North Korea (which had to be waived) to give Kim presents including a signed copy of Elton John's "Rocket Man" Nothingburger
Planning to withdraw from NATO, only to be talked down NATO should pay up.
Not knowing the UK had nuclear arms Embarassing
Wondering if Finland was part of Russia Embarassing
Saying an invasion of Venezuela would be cool and that Venezuela is basically part of the US So long as we annex Cuba too.
Voicing support for Uyghur concentration camps in China's Xinjiang Despicable
Claiming to Xi he had a lot of internal support for serving more than two terms Meh
Trying to get Japan to help him on a deal with Iran Nothingburger
Being wishy-washy and sloppy about whether to bomb Iran in 2019 after it shot down a drone He made the right decision, Bolton is a warmonger
Saying he wants to "get out [militarily] from everywhere," without nuance, including allied countries Ideological difference between him and Bolton. Neither are right.
Saying the US should let Russia take care of the Islamic State, thereby ceding influence in the region to Russia I'm not sure what benefit we get out of fighting Russia for influence in Syria.
Having Jared Kushner personally call the Mexican government to negotiate an end to the caravans Republicans feared in 2018 Kushner is essentially his personal aide, not sure what the issue is here.
Being constantly mocked behind his back by his own advisors, including the ones who appear most loyal to him, like Pompeo (who passed Bolton a note at the North Korean summit saying Trump was "so full of shit," according to the NYT) and Mnuchin I probably would too
Pretty much all things we already knew.