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John Bolton

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John Bolton is an American attorney, diplomat, and political commentator who served as the National Security Advisor under President Donald Trump from April 2018 to September 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Bolton has held various significant positions in the U.S. government, including U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006. He is known for his hawkish foreign policy views and has been a prominent advocate for a strong U.S. military presence abroad.

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Feb 26, 2025

Look, Trump has said many times, including in public, that he thinks if he has good relations with a foreign head of state, then the United States itself has good relations with that country and the converse is also true.

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Feb 22, 2025

They'd be breaking out the champagne in the Kremlin when they heard the Trump administration's peace plan.

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Feb 20, 2025

People search for policy reasons on what Trump does. There are no policy reasons. Trump believes that if he has good relations with a foreign head of state, United States has good relations with that country.

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Feb 20, 2025

Well, he's attacking Zelenskyy because he doesn't like him and he hasn't liked him since the famous perfect phone conversation in the summer of 2019 about basically threatening to withhold U.S. security assistance to Ukraine unless…

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Feb 20, 2025

In a normal world, you don't extort your friends. You know, I have I have no objection in principle to seeking some kind of compensation for the United States for the aid that it's given.

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Feb 16, 2025

I think it's highly probable that Trump will try and withdraw the United States from NATO, and he's already setting preconditions that will justify it.

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Feb 13, 2025

It is unconscionable to allow Russia to assault Ukraine's sovereignty...

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Feb 12, 2025

They’re drinking vodka straight out of the bottle in the Kremlin tonight. It was a great day for Moscow.

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Feb 12, 2025

Putin has scored a whole series of victories today. It’s hard to encompass them all.

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Jan 22, 2025

You know, when President Biden recognizing the threat against me and several other current and former US government officials, authorized Secret Service to restore protection.

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Dec 27, 2024

A majority of member governments tells us what we owe, on pain of losing our vote in U.N. governing bodies if we don’t pay up.

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Dec 27, 2024

It’s time they get their comeuppance.

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Dec 27, 2024

Funding for U.N. components falls into two categories: mandatory 'assessed' contributions and voluntary contributions.

alternet.org
Dec 27, 2024

Using America’s money as an existential threat will rock the U.N. system.

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Sep 8, 2024

Donald Trump will cause a lot of damage. The only thing he cares about is Donald Trump.

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Aug 25, 2024

I think he's dangerous enough. He shouldn't get a second term.

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Aug 14, 2024

We know one thing for sure, Trump never loses. And so if he's not declared the winner of 2024 as in 2020, it must be because he was treated unfairly yet again.

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Apr 13, 2024

Israel's response – and there should be a response – should not be proportionate. It should be far stronger because when deterrence fails to reestablish it you have to teach the adversary that any gain they may hope to get by any future…

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Mar 14, 2024

he has no interest in a second term of defending Taiwan from a potential Chinese invasion.

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Mar 14, 2024

NATO would be in real jeopardy. I think he would try to get out.

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Mar 14, 2024

I just don't think he has enough of a brain to have an articulated view on U.S. China policy because he thinks everything through the prism of how does this benefit Donald Trump.

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Aug 1, 2023

I think Trump is an aberration. I think he is so unlike any other American president, that the stain will be on him.

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Aug 1, 2023

The First Amendment does not apply to conspiracies to violate the law, and Smith tries to show in the indictment itself that he is not going after freedom of speech, so I think that will fail.

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Aug 1, 2023

But I think the public interest here argues almost beyond a doubt itself in favor of trial before the election.

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Aug 1, 2023

I think this case has a problem that the classified documents case really does not, and that is the question of what Trump's state of mind actually was and what he knew, purported to know about the election, and what his intentions were.

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