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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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Aug 17, 2022

I think they're going to be overwhelmed by the kind of emotions that Trump has stirred up.

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Aug 15, 2022

He liked cool things. He saw things that he -- so he wanted to take them and he was pretty much able to take them and not just on classified information matters, on all kinds of things that crossed his desk.

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Aug 15, 2022

The President had a habit of asking to retain sensitive documents. And from time to time, he did that and we didn`t know what happened to them.

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Aug 14, 2022

I think that claim is almost certainly a lie. I was never aware of anything even remotely approximating that policy and I haven't heard anything of it since I left. So I think this is made up and I think a key point here is when somebody…

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Aug 14, 2022

When a document is declassified, it`s not just declassified as to Donald Trump. It`s declassified for the whole world.

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Aug 11, 2022

If I had to give any advice to my fellow Republicans, it would be chill out here and wait for the facts, because the facts may turn out not to be what Donald Trump said they were at first that that has been known to happen before.

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Jul 12, 2022

It's not an attack on our democracy. It's Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump. It's a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.

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Jul 12, 2022

As somebody who has helped plan coup d'etat... it takes a lot of work.

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May 8, 2022

If Trump wins re-election, which is entirely possible, there`s no more guardrail.

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Mar 29, 2022

You still have people in United States who think the DNC server is there, that Hunter Biden`s missing zillions of dollars there, and -- and to the extent there was an unnatural environment created made it much more easier for Putin.

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Mar 28, 2022

He knows what it is. He apparently used them.

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Feb 7, 2022

I think, in a second Trump term, the Russians would already be in Kyiv.

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