Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a critic of former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, said on Sunday that he would oppose Bolton’s nomination as the No. 2 leader in the State Department.
Trump is reportedly considering Bolton to serve as the deputy secretary of state under Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson.
During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Paul said that he would oppose Bolton’s nomination to serve under Tillerson.
“I do know that John Bolton doesn’t get it. He still believes in regime change. He’s still a big cheerleader for the Iraq war. He’s promoted a nuclear attack by Israel on Iran. He wants to do regime change in Iran,” he said. “So, I think John Bolton is so far out of it and has such a naive understanding of the world. If he were to be the assistant or the undersecretary for Tillerson, I’m an out automatic no on Bolton. He should get nowhere close to the State Department if anybody with the same worldview is in charge.”
And how will Senator Mop Top be brought back into the fold? This disparagement of Trumpy’s toadies will not be tolerated.
These transient moments of rationality from the Republican side will soon dissolve into falling in lock-step behind Trump. Because, party power before country. And more unfortunately, the media looks at each thing Trump does - each tweet, each appointment, each dissing of the intelligence services, each lie - as one isolated item, rather than part of the formation of the big picture of the brewing, looming shitstorm about to hit the fan.
Always suspected amid all all of this Romney-or-Giuliani disinformation crapola that there was really the most sinister Bolton subterfuge really at work.
I never thought I would feel proud of Rand Paul of all people but he is making a whole whole lot of sense today. By the way even Trump himself would never support this weapons-of-mass-destruction-utter-lunatic for a job which means that Trump didn’t even read or understand the memorandum that’ some crazed Bush leftover stuck on his desk before approving it
One probably has to give some credit to Rand Paul for his stand on Bolton, but is he really willing to accept the other Trump appointments that are “way out there?”
No Shit Sherlock
Bolton is a lunatic of the first order
Did you see this? Government by conspiracy theory.
Fucker is seriously unhinged
http://wpo.st/41YL2