John Bolton announces he WILL run for the White House in 2024 against former boss Donald Trump
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Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has revealed that he will face his former boss in the 2024 election.
The veteran foreign policy hawk, whom Trump labeled the tough guy, said his White House campaign will focus on being tougher on China and Russia.
The 74-year-old already has his Republican rival in his sights, saying support for his MAGA policies is in “terminal decline.”
Speaking to Good Morning Britain today, Bolton said: “I would go in to win the nomination and I would do it mainly on the basis that we need a much stronger foreign policy.”
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has revealed that he will face his former boss in the 2024 election
“I think it’s important that it’s understood not just in Moscow, but understood in places like Beijing, that unprovoked aggression against your neighbors is not something the United States and its allies will tolerate.”
Bolton has been a fixture of Republican administrations for decades, serving as Assistant Attorney General under Ronald Reagan, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs under George HW Bush, and multiple roles under George W. Bush.
He served as assistant secretary of state for arms control and international security affairs from 2001 to 2005, then was appointed US ambassador to the UN, while also campaigning for the Iraq War as director of the Project for the New American century.
Under Trump, he served from April 2018 to September 2019 as national security adviser, two years after he was passed over as a potential secretary of state because the Republican president “didn’t like his mustache,” inside sources said.
The veteran foreign policy hawk, whom Trump has labeled the tough guy, told correspondent Noel Phillips that his White House campaign will focus on being tougher on China and Russia.
Under Trump, he served from April 2018 to September 2019 as a national security adviser.
The pair later clashed over their foreign policy views on Iran and Afghanistan, with Trump tweeting on September 9 that his “services are no longer needed” due to their “many” disagreements.
Bolton disputed this version of events, saying that he offered to resign.
So far, Trump is the only Republican to have announced his candidacy for the 2024 election, while favorite Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to run.
Speaking to Good Morning Britain today, Bolton said: “I think support for Trump within the party itself is in terminal decline.”
‘I would not present myself as a vain candidate. If I didn’t think I could run seriously, then I wouldn’t enter the race.’
Trump walks with Bolton in 2019 after his early departure from the G7 summit in Canada
He was then asked about the UK’s political turmoil of 2022, a year in which three prime ministers saw each other after Liz Truss’s infamous 44 days of chaos in Downing Street.
Bolton sympathized with the former leader over her pro-growth, low-tax budget that caused financial chaos, saying: “I think it was very, very sad, very, very unfortunate for the UK.”
The policy that she and her Finance Minister were recommending seemed perfectly sensible to me.
After his acrimonious departure from the White House in 2019, Bolton wrote a best-selling book about his tenure, The Room Where It Happened.
It made explosive claims that Trump viewed “obstruction of justice as a way of life” and withdrew criminal investigations as “personal favors” to certain dictators he liked.
Bolton last month mocked a White House run and lashed out at Trump for his attack on the Constitution.
He said he would have to join the 2024 presidential race if other Republicans didn’t step up and condemn the former president for trying to get rid of the Constitution to ensure “voter fraud” doesn’t happen again, despite no evidence. that the 2020 vote was “stolen.” .
He told NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press Now: “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.”
‘I would like to see Shermanesque statements from all potential candidates. If I don’t see that, I’m going to seriously consider going in.’
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 said: “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.”
‘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.
βIn fact, I think most of the Republican elected officials in Washington disagree with Trump on this, but they are intimidated,β 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 shockingly admitted last year that he had helped organize coups in other countries.
The Republican made the startling admission in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper when he denied claims that the January 6 riots were a coup attempt.
“It’s not an attack on our democracy,” Bolton said of the riot on Capitol Hill. ‘It’s Donald Trump taking care of Donald Trump. It is something that happens once in a lifetime.
But Tapper responded to his claims, noting: “You don’t have to be brilliant to plan a hit.”
“I don’t agree with that, as someone who helped plan coups, not here, but in other places, it takes a lot of work,” Bolton responded on the episode of The Lead. And that was not what he did.