Okay, to be fair, I wouldn’t trust John Bolton to hold my beer while I pee, but he’s dragging Trump hard lately, and that’s always fun to watch.
According to a new report from NBC News, Bolton strongly criticized Trump at a private Morgan Stanley global investment event in Miami last week, suggesting that Trump’s foreign policy decisions are tainted by his personal financial interests. Not exactly a shocker, but this could be the sort of thing we can look forward to if Bolton testifies in Trump’s impeachment hearing.
Bolton told the gathering of Morgan Stanley’s largest hedge fund clients that he was most frustrated with Trump over his handling of Turkey, people who were present said. Noting the broad bipartisan support in Congress to sanction Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan purchased a Russian missile defense system, Bolton said Trump’s resistance to the move was unreasonable, four people present for his speech said.
Bolton said he believes there is a personal or business relationship dictating Trump’s position on Turkey because none of his advisers are aligned with him on the issue, the people present said.
The Trump Organization has a property in Istanbul, and the president's daughter Ivanka Trump attended the opening with Erdogan in 2012. Though it’s a leasing agreement for use of the Trump name, Trump himself said in a 2015 interview that the arrangement presented “a little conflict of interest” should he be elected.
A “little conflict of interest,” huh? Okay. So by all means let’s investigate the Bidens.
Bolton also gave a warning about what might happen if Trump is (pardon my word-vomit) reelected:
Bolton said Trump could go full isolationist — with the faction of the Republican Party that aligns with Paul’s foreign policy views taking over the GOP — and could withdraw the U.S. from NATO and other international alliances, three people present for his remarks said.
Sure, let’s pull out of NATO. Not like that’s been important to global stability or anything.
Build that Moscow tower, white boy. That’s what this has been about all along, right?
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