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How Long Before Trump Ousts National Security Advisor John Bolton?
Oh wait…he just did…
We’re not exactly saying we “called it”, but we’re re-upping a piece today that we put out a little over a year ago. Because even though we were, well, a little more than a year off on when this would happen (and one might argue getting fired by Trump unless you’re ultra-anti immigrant advisor Stephen Miller, or a family member, is an inevitability), the reasons Trump gave are remarkably consistent to what we pointed to in this story.
Of course, Trump did it via Tweet:
We have no love for John Bolton. So, BTW, this is a really good move by Trump. As good as hiring him in the first place was bad. Because as we’ve mentioned previously, we know him a little, and we’ve never met anyone more rude to their own staff in front of other people. (Note: we’ve never met Trump in person.) At the time of his appointment, we described him thusly:
“Imperious as hell, a war monger, and a genuine lunatic who goes around talking about “pre-emptive strikes” as the solution to most any conflict involving the U.S.”
And our hope at the time was that Trump would quickly get fed up with Bolton’s haughtiness, once they started spending a lot of time together.
