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riversedge

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Thu Mar 22, 2018, 09:22 PM Mar 2018

Steve Bannon had asked Bolton to draw up a plan to extricate the United States from the Iran deal

We are going to hear a whole lot more about pulling out of the IRAN nuclear deal now.

Old article but pertinent now


https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/28/john-bolton-trump-iran-242107

John Bolton is pictured. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

John Bolton, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, said in his op-ed that “staff changes” now prevent him from seeing the president. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images.



Bolton writes in op-ed he can't get in to see Trump anymore

By ELIANA JOHNSON

08/28/2017 05:49 PM EDT

Updated 08/28/2017 07:13 PM EDT


Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton once enjoyed regular access to President Donald Trump, but can no longer get a hearing with him. “I requested a meeting with him and I was turned down,” Bolton told POLITICO, though he declined to offer further details.

Bolton went public with his complaint in an op-ed published Monday in National Review in which he laid out a blueprint to exit the Iran nuclear deal because he couldn’t deliver it to the president himself.

Bolton was considered for secretary of state and national security adviser during the presidential transition last winter, and until recently served as an informal adviser to the administration on national security issues.

Bolton said in his op-ed that “staff changes” now prevent him from seeing the president. He wrote that although former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon had asked him to draw up a plan to extricate the United States from the Iran deal in late July, that plan never made it to Trump’s desk after Bannon was fired earlier this month.........................

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Steve Bannon had asked Bolton to draw up a plan to extricate the United States from the Iran deal (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2018 OP
'the coming arms race' - didn't the traitor drop that recently poboy2 Mar 2018 #1
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