John Bolton is considering running for president in 2024 just to stop Trump

Former national security adviser John Bolton threatened Monday to run in the 2024 presidential race if other Republicans don’t come forward and condemn former President Donald Trump’s attack on the Constitution.

“I think to be a presidential candidate, you can’t just say I support the Constitution, you have to say I would oppose people who would undermine it,” Bolton told NBC’s Kristen Welker Monday on Meet the Press Now.

He said he would “absolutely” jump into the presidential race if he didn’t hear that message from other GOP presidential candidates.

‘I would like to see Shermanesque statements from all potential candidates. If I don’t see that, I will seriously consider going in,” Bolton said.

Asked what his schedule would look like, Bolton replied: “I think it will have to be quite short.”

“I think to be a presidential candidate, you can’t just say I support the Constitution, you have to say I would oppose people who would undermine it,” Bolton (left) told NBC’s Kristen Welker (right) Monday on Meet the press now.

We already have a declared candidate for president in the Republican Party who does not believe in the Constitution. This is serious business,’ he remarked.

On Saturday, Trump suggested that the Constitution should be scrapped as, again, he falsely claimed he was robbed of a second term due to widespread voter fraud, of which there is no evidence.

‘A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution,’ he wrote. ‘Our great “Founders” did not want, and would not approve, Fake and Fraudulent Elections!’

“UNPRECEDENTED FRAUD REQUIRES AN UNPRECEDENTED CURE,” he wrote in a Truth Social follow-up post.

In mid-November, Trump announced that he would run for president again.

Former President Donald Trump announced on November 15 from Mar-a-Lago that he was seeking the presidency again. On Saturday, he suggested that the Constitution should be scrapped as he continued to complain about his defeat in the 2020 election.

Bolton argued Monday that Trump’s views were out of step with the majority of the Republican Party.

“I think the voters, the Republican voters, the people who choose the Republican candidate, almost 95 percent don’t agree that Donald Trump is more important than the Constitution,” Bolton said. I’m afraid there are some who would stick with Trump on this,” she said as an aside.

‘What does a candidate have to lose by attracting 95 percent of the Republican Party base?’ she argued.

He encouraged Republican leaders to speak out.

“In fact, I think most of the Republican elected officials in Washington disagree with Trump on this, but they are intimidated,” he said. ‘This is the time when there is strength in numbers. The more people tell the truth, the easier it will be for others.

Bolton, a veteran of the Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 administrations, came on board as national security adviser during a Trump administration term beginning in April 2018.

He left in September 2019, with Trump saying he fired Bolton and Bolton saying he resigned due to differences in approach to the Taliban in Afghanistan, among other issues.

By June 2020, Bolton had published a book, The Room Where it Happened, which was critical of Trump and included revelations that Trump wanted China’s help to win re-election in 2020.