{"id":38821,"date":"2019-09-12T02:15:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38821"},"modified":"2019-09-12T02:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:15:04","slug":"bolton-is-gone-the-problem-remains-its-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38821","title":{"rendered":"Bolton is gone; the problem remains: it&#8217;s POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23JohnBolton%20%23nationalsecurity&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NSA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38822\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/NSA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Bolton has left the building, the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Fine. Good riddance. However, the former national security adviser isn&#8217;t the problem. The national security risk remains with the guy who appointed him to the office he has just departed in a huff: Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Bolton made too many decision with which he disagreed. What&#8217;s most stunning, though, is that Bolton did not want the president to meet with Taliban terrorists on the eve of the nation&#8217;s 9\/11 commemoration. Trump seemed to call that a &#8220;big mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, then we hear from Trump that Bolton drew the ire of North Korean tyrant\/dictator\/murderer Kim Jong Un. Trump said Kim &#8220;couldn&#8217;t tolerate&#8221; Bolton \u2026 as if it should matter whether a Marxist tyrant should have to <em>tolerate<\/em> a U.S. national security adviser.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton is the third national security adviser to leave the Trump administration. The first was Michael Flynn, who left after 24 days for allegedly lying to the FBI about that &#8220;Russia thing.&#8221; Then H.R. McMaster, an Army lieutenant general and a brilliant military strategist, resigned over differences with the president.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s Bolton who&#8217;s been shown the door.<\/p>\n<p>These presidential appointees come and go.<\/p>\n<p>However, the problem remains with the individual who called on them in the first place.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23JohnBolton%20%23nationalsecurity&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bolton has left the building, the White House. Fine. Good riddance. However, the former national security adviser isn&#8217;t the problem. The national security risk remains with the guy who appointed him to the office he has just departed in a huff: Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States. Trump said Bolton made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38821\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bolton is gone; the problem remains: it&#8217;s POTUS<\/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":[13],"tags":[1424,6747,3213],"class_list":["post-38821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-bolton","tag-national-security-adviser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38821","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=38821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38823,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38821\/revisions\/38823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}