'Bolton has helped break the system in ways that will take a new president years to repair,' writes natsecHeather
Photo: Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images You have to wonder if he does this to his ex-wives, too. In the swirl of Washington crazy that followed Trump’s Twitter firing of John Bolton on Tuesday, NBC reported that Trump had been reaching out to Bolton’s predecessor H.R. McMaster, to complain about Bolton and ask for advice on national security matters, including whom to appoint as secretary of defense.
Remember, Bolton was once credited with being a bureaucratic ninja, a brilliant master of cabinet-level knife fights and death by memo. His anti-interventionist opponents feared that he would effectively mobilize the full force of the U.S. security apparatus in support of his warmongering policies, marginalizing and neutering President Trump in the process.Large swathes of left and libertarian right Washington are celebrating Bolton’s downfall.
Bolton accelerated this trend, including his own reported propensity to go around Defense Department officials whose views he did not share. Secretary of State Pompeo thrives on it, so much so that he’s being described as a possible successor to Bolton while staying in his current job.
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