Trump Is Considering Replacing War Hawk John Bolton

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President Donald Trump is reportedly considering replacing his hawkish National Security Adviser John Bolton over his plans to push the U.S. towards a military conflict with Iran, Venezuela and North Korea

The President’s national security adviser is a war hawk who, unlike Trump, was a diehard supporter of the Iraq War. Bolton now has Iran in his crosshairs. 

Two sources familiar with the matter said that Bolton “is headed for the exits, having flown too close to the sun on his regime change efforts for Iran, Venezuela and North Korea,” The National Interest magazine reported

“Hearing that Trump wants him out,” a former senior Trump administration official told the magazine.

Press TV reports: There is speculation in Washington “that there’s now daylight between Trump and Bolton,” the report added.

The fighting has also expanded to include US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, officials say. A State Department official and a former White House official both report that Bolton and Pompeo are “fighting all the time.”

A former senior official in the State Department said Pompeo is enthusiastic about isolating Iran, but fearful of an actual war that might engulf much of the Middle East.

“John Bolton is the problem … Trump’s national security adviser is getting dangerous…particularly to the president’s ideals,” Douglas Macgregor, a Bolton rival and would-be successor, writes in Spectator USA.

Trump ran his election campaign on the promise to pull the US military out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria — unwinnable post-9/11 wars that have consumed American lives and military budgets.

That partial retreat remains one of Trump’s strongest points in his pitch to be the so-called outsider president.

But Bolton is working in exactly the opposite direction.

The United States has been ratcheting up economic and military pressure on Iran, with Trump recently urging Tehran to talk to him.

“What I’d like to see with Iran, I’d like to see them call me,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday.

But then he said he would not rule out the possibility of military action in Iran amid escalating tensions before slamming former secretary of state John Kerry for his involvement in the issue.

His remarks came after Bolton said on Sunday that the United States was sending an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East in a “clear and unmistakable” message to Iran.

2 Comments

  1. Bolton’s ONLY job in the WH is to deliver a pipeline to the Mediterranean for his masters. Wars and strewn bodies are only collateral damage to achieve this goal. Iran is just negotiating for a bigger slice of the pie.

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