John Bolton

* Donald Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton says the indictment over classified documents at Mar-a-Lago is "emblematic" of the former president's overall attitude. "I think it demonstrates just how serious these charges are," Bolton told Scripps News. "Unfortunately, it's reflective of the way Donald Trump treated security classifications even when he was in the White House. He just didn't care much about protecting the safety of things." ] video june 12, 2023
in the news july 2022
* Chris Cillizza, Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor: What John Bolton gets wrong about coup attempts -- and Donald Trump …
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(WP-article beginns with: ) John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator. He served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United States National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019. Bolton served as a United States Assistant Attorney General for President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He served in the State Department as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1989 to 1993, and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs from 2001 to 2005. He was an advocate of the Iraq War as a Director of the Project for the New American Century, which favored going to war with Iraq. He was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 to December 2006, as a recess appointee by President George W. Bush. He stepped down at the end of his recess appointment in December 2006 because he was unlikely to win confirmation from the Senate, of which the Democratic Party had gained control at the time. Bolton later served as the National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump from April 2018 to September 2019. He repeatedly called for the termination of the Iran nuclear deal, from which the U.S. withdrew in May 2018. He wrote a best-selling book about his tenure in the Trump administration, The Room Where It Happened, published in June 2020. Bolton is widely considered a foreign policy hawk and is an advocate for military action and regime change by the US in Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, and North Korea. A member of the Republican Party, his political views have been described as American nationalist, conservative,David Ramm, "Bolton, John R.", Current Biography Yearbook, 2006. and neoconservative, although Bolton rejects the last term. He is a former senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and Fox News Channel commentator. He was a foreign policy adviser to 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
* Der Spiegel: Trump habe zwar zweifellos »die Aufrührer am Kapitol entfesselt«. 21.7.2022
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