{"id":39864,"date":"2020-07-20T23:10:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T23:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/07\/20\/bolton-trump-lacks-strategic-vision-historical-knowledge\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:20:14","slug":"bolton-trump-lacks-strategic-vision-historical-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2020\/07\/20\/bolton-trump-lacks-strategic-vision-historical-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton: Trump lacks strategic vision, historical knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday he believes President Donald Trump committed several impeachable offenses, but Democratic congressional leaders doomed their effort to remove him from office by rushing the process for partisan purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolton told a Florida group in an online presentation that Trump\u2019s business and re-election concerns drive not only his dealings with Ukraine, which led to his impeachment by the House, but also with China, Turkey and other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said he would have voted to remove the president for his Ukraine dealings, but did not delve into specifics. Bolton, a longtime adviser to Republican presidents, told the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, a nonpartisan organization that meets monthly to hear from prominent newsmakers, that life inside Trump\u2019s White House was like \u201cliving in a pinball machine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou need to have strategic vision. It certainly helps to have philosophical foundations and you have to think through pros and cons of different policies. Almost none of that happened with President Trump,\u201d said Bolton, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/06\/15\/trump-former-adviser-bolton-faces-charges-if-book-released\/\" target=_blank>promoting his book<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/06\/16\/trump-administration-sues-to-stop-release-of-bolton-book\/\" target=_blank>The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump \u201cdoes not have a basic philosophy. He is not a conservative Republican. I don\u2019t mean to say he is a liberal Democrat. He is just not anything,\u201d said Bolton, who served as Trump\u2019s national security adviser from April 2018 to September 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/2019\/09\/10\/trump-dumps-bolton\/\" target=_blank>The president says he fired Bolton<\/a>; Bolton says he resigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/06\/17\/bolton-says-trump-asked-china-to-help-him-get-reelected\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1189044734.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Bolton says Trump asked China to help him get reelected<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">President Donald Trump \u201cpleaded\u201d with China\u2019s Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help his reelection prospects, according to a scathing new book by former Trump adviser John Bolton that accuses the president of being driven by political calculations when making national security decisions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolton, who was being interviewed by local TV anchorman Michael Williams, gave his most searing critiques regarding impeachment for congressional Democrats, saying they pushed their effort in a \u201crushed, inadequate, excessively partisan way.\u201d The Democrats weren\u2019t interested in learning the full truth, Bolton said, they just wanted to harm Trump\u2019s re-election chances, making it impossible to get any significant Republican support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolton said the Democrats\u2019 claim that they plowed ahead knowing their effort was doomed in the Senate because it would curtail Trump\u2019s future actions is wrong. He said Trump\u2019s acquittal will make him less circumspect if he wins in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe whole thing ended up completely backward of where the Democrats said they wanted,\u201d Bolton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolton, 71, is a longtime foreign policy hardliner who supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and has called for U.S. military action against Iran, North Korea and other countries over their attempts to build or procure nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. He was President George W. Bush\u2019s United Nations ambassador for 16 months after serving as a State Department arms negotiator and in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolton said Trump does not read the national security briefing presidents receive daily and during the two or three weekly in-person briefings he receives from security and military officials, Trump spends most of his time talking rather than listening and asking questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolton compared that to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he said comes to meetings well-briefed, with a deep knowledge of history and a clear vision of his goals. He said Putin believes he can play Trump, who Bolton said knows little history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou put somebody like that on one side of the table and Donald Trump &#8230; on the other side of the table and it is not a fair fight,\u201d Bolton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolton criticized<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/06\/30\/trump-making-history-steps-into-north-korea\/\" target=_blank> Trump\u2019s dealings with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un<\/a>, saying their face-to-face meetings gave legitimacy to Kim\u2019s rule without the United States getting any concessions on that country\u2019s nuclear weapons program. Instead, it gave Kim two years to make his weapons program stronger, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis was not a cost-free exercise,\u201d Bolton said of the meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bolton fired back at Republicans who criticize him for releasing his book just before the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you can\u2019t talk about the character or incompetence of a president during a presidential election, when can you talk about it?\u201d Bolton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked about the election, Bolton said no matter who wins, Trump or his presumed Democratic opponent Joe Biden, the U.S. will be less safe for different reasons. 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