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Last Tuesday, Trump met with ultra-hawkish former U.N. ambassador John Bolton in the Oval Office to discuss a potential job offer. Bolton has for years argued that the United States should pre-emptively attack Tehran. In 2015, he wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined, To Stop Irans Bomb, Bomb Iran, and last month, he wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed outlining the legal case for a pre-emptive strike against North Korea.
According to a person who spoke with Bolton after the meeting, Bolton recalled that Trump said he wanted him to join the administration: We need you in here, John. Bolton responded that there were only two jobs hed consider: secretary of state and national security adviser. Trump said, O.K, Ill call you really soon. Sources added that Trump spent much of the time with Bolton fuming that McMaster was speaking privately with Barack Obamas former national security adviser Susan Rice. Trump kept saying, Can you believe it? To Susan Rice? Can you believe it?
Perhaps most consequential for Robert Muellers investigation, sources said Trump has discussed a plan to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions. According to two Republicans in regular contact with the White House, there have been talks that Trump could replace Sessions with E.P.A. Administrator Scott Pruitt, who would not be recused from overseeing the Russia probe. Also, as an agency head and former state attorney general, Pruitt would presumably have a good shot at passing a Senate confirmation hearing.
Then there is the question of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trumps futures. Trump has told people for months that he wants them to go back to New York. Trump wants them out of there. He thinks theyve been getting hit too hard, a friend of the president said. But Javanka are digging in, sources said. Theyve damaged us so much already. What else can they say about us? Kushner recently said, according to a person who spoke with him. And if we go back to New York, theyll keep attacking. So what do we have to lose? In recent days, the couple have argued for their continued relevance by cooperating with pieces in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Sources said that if Kelly is forced out, Jared and Ivanka will fight to stay on.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/trump-swinging-the-axe-at-tillerson-mcmaster-sessions-jared-and-ivanka
According to a person who spoke with Bolton after the meeting, Bolton recalled that Trump said he wanted him to join the administration: We need you in here, John. Bolton responded that there were only two jobs hed consider: secretary of state and national security adviser. Trump said, O.K, Ill call you really soon. Sources added that Trump spent much of the time with Bolton fuming that McMaster was speaking privately with Barack Obamas former national security adviser Susan Rice. Trump kept saying, Can you believe it? To Susan Rice? Can you believe it?
Perhaps most consequential for Robert Muellers investigation, sources said Trump has discussed a plan to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions. According to two Republicans in regular contact with the White House, there have been talks that Trump could replace Sessions with E.P.A. Administrator Scott Pruitt, who would not be recused from overseeing the Russia probe. Also, as an agency head and former state attorney general, Pruitt would presumably have a good shot at passing a Senate confirmation hearing.
Then there is the question of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trumps futures. Trump has told people for months that he wants them to go back to New York. Trump wants them out of there. He thinks theyve been getting hit too hard, a friend of the president said. But Javanka are digging in, sources said. Theyve damaged us so much already. What else can they say about us? Kushner recently said, according to a person who spoke with him. And if we go back to New York, theyll keep attacking. So what do we have to lose? In recent days, the couple have argued for their continued relevance by cooperating with pieces in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Sources said that if Kelly is forced out, Jared and Ivanka will fight to stay on.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/trump-swinging-the-axe-at-tillerson-mcmaster-sessions-jared-and-ivanka
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"We need you in here, John." (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Mar 2018
OP
pbmus
(12,422 posts)1. The Con building his war room...
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)2. Trump needs to quit.
He is not made for the presidency.
underpants
(182,792 posts)3. Welcome to the real world IvanRed