Bolton urges us to be clear
Now Bolton is twitter-bombing reporters with his version. He wasn’t fired, he quit!
Bolton differs from Trump version of his resignation. “Offered last night without his asking,” he texts me. “Slept on it and gave it to him this morning.”
Ambassador Bolton sends me a text message just now: “Let’s be clear, I resigned, having offered to do so last night.”
Quite a moment on Fox –> Host @Kilmeade said “John Bolton just texted me. Just now. He’s watching. And he said, ‘Let’s be clear. I resigned.'”
Other news boffins are pointing out that Bolton, loathsome and wrong though he is, has intellectual and rhetorical powers that Trump does not, so the fight could get interesting.
If he’s not afraid of burning bridges the way Tillerson seemed to be, it could get interesting indeed. If he feels no particular loyalty to Trump and his Republican enablers, we might get quite an interesting look inside the White House should he care to spill, this time with attribution, not just “unnamed sources who are in the position to know about such matters.” Not that Bolton is necessarily going to be truthful, or avoid trying to make himself look good, but it would be refreshing to have some who’s been on the inside speak openly, in a timely manner, about how things are disfunctioning. Bolton doesn’t seem to be the type to pull punches, either. Perhaps it could stir some Republicans from their Trumpian thralldom. I know, how likely is any or all of that, but one can dream…
It is funny how broad this statement is once the personal references are removed.