Trump’s Own Former National Security Advisor John Bolton Brutally Destroyed Ex-President’s Claim That Putin Wouldn’t Have Invaded Ukraine If He Were In Office: “He’s Not Capable Of It”

Bolton is calling Trump on his nonsense!


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Since the devastating Russian invasion of Ukraine ordered by dictatorial President Vladimir Putin, one-term, twice-impeached former President Donald Trump has claimed on numerous occasions that, basically, none of this would have happened if he hadn’t been cheated out of (i.e. lost) the 2020 presidential election, and he was still in the White House when all of this began to go down.

Even Trump’s own former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, knows what a ridiculous load of nonsense the mere notion of this is, and in a new interview with the Palm Beach Post, the former Trump administration official made as much crystal clear.

Bolton has, of course, morphed into a staunch and rather loud critic of his former boss since he departed from the Trump administration long before Donald’s term was even over. The former Trump official feels that Donald’s reluctance to send weapons to Ukraine was a huge contributing factor to the current state of affairs, as Putin’s violent invasion into Ukraine continues to devastate.

As Trump continues to ramp up his public attacks against President Biden and his handling of the crisis, and his unrelenting insistence that none of it would have happened if he’d been elected to a second term, Antonio Fins writes for the Palm Beach Post, “In interviews, officials and experts who closely watched what transpired in 2019 question whether Trump aggravated what was already a volatile international affairs challenge on the European continent by withholding military aid, roping Ukraine into domestic U.S. politics, guilt-by-association smearing of the country’s new president and denigration of the NATO alliance.”

Bolton said, “I think all contributed to a precarious status for Ukraine, which would have continued in a second term [for Trump].”

The publication goes on to report Bolton’s assertion that a peace-making trip to Moscow by Donald Trump would not have been successful.

“He’s not capable of it,” the former Trump official explained. “This would require thinking through a policy and considering the pluses and minuses, the risks and costs involved. That’s just not what he does.”

Bolton went on to point out the obvious — Trump’s withholding of $250 million in congressionally-approved aid, which earned him his first impeachment, only served to exacerbate the situation in Ukraine and the mounting conflict with Russia.

“The urgency of the particular $250 million was that it was appropriated money that under the federal government’s bizarre budget procedures would have expired on Sept. 30, 2019,” the former National Security Advisor said before going on to touch on whether or not Donald Trump even truly believed that Joe Biden actually did anything wrong in Ukraine that would lead to his extortion and blackmail attempt.

“You never can tell with Trump. His relationship with the truth is very tenuous and whether he believes it as a matter of fact, or whether he was using it for his own political purposes, I don’t really know it was,” Bolton explained.

Touching on the topic of the ex-president’s less than loving feelings about NATO, Bolton said, “He [Trump] was very negative on the institution. I don’t think Trump was pressing [the defense spending increase] to strengthen NATO, which is what the rest of us who supported him wanted. I think it was because he didn’t feel they would, and that would give him further excuse to withdraw.”

You can read the full report on Bolton’s new interview from the Palm Beach Post here.

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