Recently, former National Security Advisor John Bolton found himself on the ever-growing Trump shit list as a result of a massive, bombshell leak from his tell-all book, and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci promptly opened his arms and welcomed him “under the bus” in a Washington Post column.
Since Bolton’s accidental yet very public revelation, Fox News and Donald Trump have seemed to team up to discredit the former security advisor, with the media outlet claiming that Bolton is colluding with the enemy (the Democrats) while Trump declared that John “begged” for his job back after he allegedly found that no one else would hire him.
“President Trump’s White House has launched another disinformation campaign against a former staffer,” Scaramucci penned in the powerful Post column. “This time, John Bolton, the last national security advisor, is the target, thanks to revelations from his unpublished book. Trump said Monday that Bolton’s claim about withholding aid to Ukraine in a quid pro quo ‘was only to sell a book.'”
“I know what Bolton is going through very well because Trump did the same to me,” the former communications director continued. “After I criticized him, the president started calling me a ‘nut job’ and said I ‘wheedled’ my way into his campaign. He and his administration officials did the same thing with his attorney Michael Cohen, his Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and his Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.”
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Scaramucci, whose relationship with Trump hails back to their New York days, pointed out that Donald’s response shouldn’t be a source of surprise at this point. Explaining, “The obvious truth is that Trump can’t simultaneously be the great leader and manager he says he is and then consistently flay every employee who manifests an independent opinion about something. Trump is either incapable of managing and working with the ‘best people,’ or he is not hiring them.”
“If Trump were the head of a public company, its board would immediately terminate and replace him,” he continued. “But politics is different. There, people tolerate the boss, even embrace him. Trump aides rationalize this work to ourselves in a cycle that I call Trump Employment Syndrome. The typical person who has worked for Trump or who currently supports him at one point found him very odd. Ted Cruz, Mike Pompeo, Kellyanne Conway, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and I all have one thing in common: We have each made public statements against then-candidate Trump and criticized his bizarre taunts and misbehavior.”
“The way to create more power is by giving it away and empowering staff to achieve your goals,” he went on. “But Trump is incapable of this. He has hobbled the executive branch and made it extremely difficult for the Cabinet departments and agencies to coordinate. He has left most of these agencies understaffed, and the heads of the agencies are afraid to do things because of the president’s fickleness. Nobody feels empowered and they worry if they make a mistake, the president will come hunting for their heads.”
Scaramucci went on to call on Bolton to look at his disconnect from Trump’s corrupt world as “freeing,” writing, “I, for one, never felt more alive than with the president of the United States called me an ‘unstable nutjob’ on Twitter. His bullying and intimidating methods have frozen many in his party, but when I began receiving them myself, I realized I was finally free.”
“Bolton might learn that speaking the truth is the best method of recovery for Trump Employment Syndrome,” the former Trump aide ended.
You can read the full column from Scaramucci here.
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