{"id":42704,"date":"2019-09-10T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42704"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:30:06","slug":"john-bolton-texts-fox-news-live-to-say-he-resigned-contradicting-another-trump-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42704","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton Texts Fox News Live to Say He Resigned, Contradicting Another Trump Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The administration of Donald Trump continues to be a hot mess. Having already achieved a record number of departures<\/a><\/strong> of White House top staff, Trump has just parted ways with his fourth National Security Advisor, John Bolton. Sources say that Trump and Bolton argued about the President’s foiled scheme to bring the Taliban to Camp David<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The break up with Bolton leaves Trump’s national security team littered with “acting”<\/em> heads, including National Security Advisor, Homeland Security Secretary, Director of National Intelligence, and Chief of Staff. These are all critical posts that have a particular significance during these times of international turmoil. Trump is awkwardly juggling relations with Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, China, Russia, and many more foreign hot spots that threaten American interests. But the nation under Trump’s “leadership”<\/em> lacks competent management in the jobs that oversee those crucial areas of statecraft.<\/p>\n

Trump announced Bolton’s dismissal in his usual way – via Twitter<\/a><\/strong> saying “I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation.”<\/em> It isn’t surprising that Trump and Bolton disagreed. That was apparent even before Bolton was hired, and anyone paying attention knew it. But Trump’s staffing decisions are based on the shallowest criteria, such as how they look on Fox News.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Bolton had a different view of how his separation came about. Contrary to Trump’s claim that he asked Bolton to resign, Bolton says – also via Twitter<\/a><\/strong> – that he made the offer first. And just to drive the point home, Bolton live-tweeted Fox News where his pal and former colleague, Brian Kilmeade of Fox and Friends, read the tweet on the air:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisPower1\/status\/1171458331216502785<\/p>\n

So Bolton, a former Fox News contributor, hasn’t been unemployed for an hour and he’s already angling for his old job at back at Fox. But the more important question going forward is which Trump-fluffing Fox News shill will Trump name as the next National Security Advisor? There are several prospects in the the Fox family who would meet Trump’s low standards for work in his White House: 1) Be willing to lie unflinchingly for Trump; and … well, that’s pretty much it.<\/p>\n

One candidate could be Walid Phares, a longtime right-wing pundit and advisor to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Phares distinguished himself as an Islamophobe and a crackpot conspiracy theorist with claims that tied President Obama and Hillary Clinton to the Muslim Brotherhood. Another candidate could be retired Gen. Jack Keane who makes frequent appearances on Fox defending Trump blindly for whatever the atrocity of the day happens to be.<\/p>\n

However, a more likely candidate would be this favorite of Sean Hannity, Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who was a presenter on the recently shuttered NRA-TV before becoming a full-fledged Fox contributor who sometimes fills in for Hannity. Bongino has already caught Trump’s eye with a book that makes wild assertions about the “Deep State”<\/em> spying on Trump. The President has tweeted about or retweeted Bongino 84 times. Typically they are just factless tributes to Trump’s imaginary awesomeness and virginal innocence, such as…<\/p>\n

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\u201cCollusion was a Hoax from day one.\u201d @dbongino<\/a> @foxandfriends<\/a><\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n