{"id":38809,"date":"2019-09-11T04:29:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T04:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38809"},"modified":"2019-09-11T14:01:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:01:28","slug":"yep-bolton-quit-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38809","title":{"rendered":"Yep, Bolton quit &#8230; period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23JohnBolton%20%23nationalsecurity%20%23POTUS%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/bolton-and-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38810\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/bolton-and-trump-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former national security adviser John Bolton wrote it out plainly and simply to Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I hereby resign, effective immediately, as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Thank you for having afforded me this opportunity to serve our country.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The letter is dated Sept. 10. That would be, um, Tuesday \u2026 of this week.<\/p>\n<p>The president said he sought Bolton&#8217;s resignation. Bolton said he gave it on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s telling the truth? Well, you know how I feel about Trump. I don&#8217;t believe anything he says. Not at any level. On any subject. Nothing, man! Zero.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I am inclined to believe Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear: I do not want John Bolton advising any president on national security matters. He&#8217;s a warmonger. He&#8217;d rather hurl bombs at our enemies than seek diplomatic solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he has disagreed with the advice Bolton gave him. At some level, I wish I could believe the president. Then again, I&#8217;ve already stated once again that I believe nothing from this man.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the quandary.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger question facing the nation is seeking to find someone who can work with the president. Who in the world who is worth a damn would stomach working for someone who is so prone to disagreeing with advice he gets from supposed experts on matters such as, say \u2026 <em>national security?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump has said he&#8217;s an expert on every subject known to humanity. That must include ways to protect this nation against its enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven help us.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23JohnBolton%20%23nationalsecurity%20%23POTUS%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former national security adviser John Bolton wrote it out plainly and simply to Donald J. Trump. &#8220;I hereby resign, effective immediately, as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Thank you for having afforded me this opportunity to serve our country.&#8221; The letter is dated Sept. 10. That would be, um, Tuesday \u2026 of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yep, Bolton quit &#8230; period<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[1424,6747,3212],"class_list":["post-38809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-bolton","tag-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38812,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions\/38812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}