Former national security adviser John Bolton
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“I think it’s a combination of television and listening to people outside the government that he trusts for one reason or another,” Bolton said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” show on Sunday.
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“I think if you could see the amount of time he actually spends in the Oval Office versus the amount of time he spends in the small Oval Office dining room with cable news networks in one form or another, it would be a very interesting statistic. “he added.
Bolton also said he supports his April 2018 comment that the United States was looking for the “Libyan model” for North Korea, a comment Trump frequently criticized, telling Fox News that it was “one of the dumbest things I’ve seen on television. “
“I don’t think it can be any clearer when talking about the 2003-2004 Libya model, we had a clear strategic decision for Muammar Qaddafi to abandon Libya’s nuclear weapons program, we have never had that from North Korea,” Bolton said. , saying that Gaddafi’s overthrow and death during the Arab Spring in 2011 were unrelated.
“One day the president will learn a little history and we will be better at it,” Bolton added.
Bolton objected if he had ever come across intelligence information claiming that Russian officials had offered rewards to Taliban-linked militants for the deaths of US troops in Afghanistan.
“I’m not going to comment on what I did or didn’t know for intelligence,” he said.
Obama-era national security adviser Susan Rice had previously claimed that the intelligence emerged during Bolton’s tenure and said she would have brought it to the President.
“I have said in countless interviews, I am not going to reveal classified information, I have a fight with the president trying to suppress my book in that regard,” Bolton said.
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