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Why Trump Keeps John Bolton
July 21, 2019 at 6:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 263 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/07/21/why-trump-keeps-john-bolton/
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Jonathan Swan: Trump has a strongly held theory of Boltons value, according to senior administration officials and advisers to the president, including people who have privately recommended to Trump that he fire Bolton. Seven sources who have discussed Bolton with Trump told me the president says having Bolton on his team improves his bargaining position and gives him a psychological advantage over foes like Iran and North Korea.
Said one source: Trump thinks that Bolton is a key part of his negotiating strategy. He thinks that Boltons bellicosity and eagerness to kill people is a bargaining chip when hes sitting down with foreign leaders. Bolton can be the bad cop and Trump can be the good cop. Trump believes this to his core.
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Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Sorry, idiot, he is just smarter than you, like most people. Seriously, you are just as bad, or worse, and everyone knows it.
KT2000
(20,577 posts)the mobster's hit men guarding the door during a meeting. He really thinks he is some kind of tough guy.
demosincebirth
(12,536 posts)Applegate
(96 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)does such a good job of tickling his sphincter?
anarch
(6,535 posts)I mean, if you're working for the stupid asshole, you're probably desperate to find some kind of evidence of competency (or at least rational thought), and yeah, maybe he has said (likely repeatedly, b/c that's what the demented old fucker does) things about how tough and threatening J.B. is, probably b/c he heard someone else say it at some point, and latched onto it for some reason.
My suspicion is that it's more along the lines of "wow, that guy's a real asshole...reminds me of myself!" and that's why he doesn't fire the walrus-faced warmonger.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)a "bargaining chip".