- Republican Party-Major Operative & Consultant
- GOP Consultants
- Groundswell: 2013 Bolton member Groundswell: Grover Norquist Hater Club Business Insider Josh Barro, July 25, 2013
- Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a “30 Front War“ Mother Jones David Corn July 25, 2013
- Repeal the Affordable Care Act & block Obama appointees
- Undermine Karl Rove
- Benghazi & Operation Fast and Furious gun-running
- Voter ID Laws (Voter Suppression)
- Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a “30 Front War“ Mother Jones David Corn July 25, 2013
- Judicial Watch– John Bolton and Ginni Thomas, wife of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas lead, Groundswell started at offices.
- Groundswell: 2013 Bolton member Groundswell: Grover Norquist Hater Club Business Insider Josh Barro, July 25, 2013
- Fox News Commentator-Bolton, also on “Red Eye“
- NRA National Rifle Association– David Keene‘s friend since 1972 under VP Spiro Agnew (Maddow’s Bag Man Podcast)
- Kirkland & Ellis– Bolton of counsel in DC Law Firm that Lobbies
- Team Trump-National Security Advisor April 9, 2018, replaced H.R. McMaster (Who replaced Michael Flynn) when Mike Pompeo replaced Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State April 26, 2018
- Week 1: April 10, 2018, Bolton fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert & considering a merger of the NSC with the Homeland Security Council.[217] During his first week in office Bolton requested and obtained the resignations of multiple National Security Council employees including NSC spokesman Michael Anton (April 8), deputy national security adviser Nadia Schadlow (April 10), and deputy national security adviser Ricky L. Waddell (April 12).[217]
- National Security Adviser John Bolton disassembled the national pandemic response team, causing Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the NSC to resign with no replacement in senior administration. Ziemer’s last day was May 8, 2018, the same day that a new Congolese Ebola outbreak was announced. Two remaining pandemic response team members went to a weapons of mass destruction unit, and a third went to a unit for international organizations.
- CNN reported in September 2018 that Bolton had significantly shrunk the number of NSC personnel, cutting it to under 300.[218][219]
- Bolton gutted the NSC to under 300 personnel John Bolton Says He ‘Fixed’ White House Overstaffing by Cutting Cybersecurity Job Washington Examiner Steve Nelson September 20, 2018
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DOJ applies for emergency restraining order against John Bolton Axios Orion Rummler. June 18, 2020. TRO Here
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Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book Washington Post Josh Dawsey June 17, 2020 June 2019 Group of 20 summit in Japan:“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Bolton writes. “He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”
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Bolton Says Trump Impeachment Inquiry Missed Other Troubling Episodes New York Times Peter Baker June 17, 2020 “Mr. Bolton describes several episodes where the president expressed a willingness to halt criminal investigations “to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked,” citing cases involving major firms in China and Turkey. “The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn’t accept,” Mr. Bolton writes, saying that he reported his concerns to Attorney General William P. Barr. Mr. Bolton also adds a striking new accusation by describing how Mr. Trump overtly linked tariff talks with China to his own political fortunes by asking President Xi Jinping to buy American agricultural products to help him win farm states in this year’s election. Mr. Trump, he writes, was “pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win.” Mr. Bolton said that Mr. Trump “stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome.” “These people should be executed,” Mr. Trump once said of journalists. “They are scumbags.” When Mr. Xi explained why he was building concentration camps in China, the book says, Mr. Trump “said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which he thought was exactly the right thing to do.” He repeatedly badgered Mr. Barr to prosecute former Secretary of State John F. Kerry for talking with Iran in what he insisted was a violation of the Logan Act.
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- May 8, 2018 Trump Announced that the US would exit the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) agreement, a major Cold War treaty
- Russiagate
- Council for National Policy-Bolton member
- Mercer $4 million Donor to John Bolton PACs between 2012-2016
- Cambridge Analytica-Mercer-funded, John Bolton PAC paid them more than $1.1 million since 2014, Subsidiary of SCL Elections
- John Bolton Super PAC-2013-$5.6 million on Republican candidates & Cambridge Analytica over $650,000 supporting:
- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, Tom Cotton, R-Ark, Richard Burr (Sep 2016 $1 million), R-NC, Fmr. Sen. Scott Brown R-MA,
- Coronavirus Corruption-Bolton disbanded the NSC Pandemic Response team his first month in office after Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster fired.
- Neocons of Bush though self-proclaimed “Goldwater” conservative, signed Project for the New American Century
- US Ambassador to the UN August 2005-December 2006 in a George W Bush recess appointment, resigning because the Senate wouldn’t confirm
- Bolton calls himself a “Goldwater conservative” and an “Americanist”
- American Enterprise Institute- Bolton Senior Fellow
- Institute of East-West Dynamics
- Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA)
- Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf
- Gatestone Institute aka Hudson Institute New York– Islamophobic Publishes Misinformation & Disinformation, Chairman 2013 – March 2018; Founder & president Nina Rosenwald. former chairman John Bolton Authors: Nonie Darwish, Alan Dershowitz, Raymond Ibrahim, Denis MacEoin, Daniel Pipes, Raheel Raza, Khaled Abu Toameh, Geert Wilders, Janusz Wójcik, Bat Ye’or, Josef Zbořil and Dexter Van Zile. Chairman Amir Taheri. [21]. 2016 Revenue $2.3 million
- John Bolton presided over anti-Muslim think tank. NBC News. Heidi Przybyla April 23, 2018 “warns of a looming “jihadist takeover” of Europe leading to a “Great White Death.” Germany Confiscating Homes to Use for Migrants,” warned one from May 2017, about a single apartment rental property in Hamburg that had gone into temporary trusteeship. Another from February 2015 claimed the immigrants, for instance Somalis, in Sweden were turning that country into the “Rape Capital of the West.” Gatestone is “a key part of the whole Islamaphobic cottage industry on the internet,” said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights and advocacy group. he has a long association with Pamela Geller, an anti-Islamic activist who organized a campaign against a mosque near 9/11’s ground zero in Manhattan, having written the foreword for a book she co-wrote and appearing on her internet radio show.”
- RT & Sputnik-Russian state media, appearance by Gatestone authors
- Gatestone created the “No-Go Zone” disinformation about European “Muslim enclaves in European cities are also breeding grounds for Islamic radicalism.” 2016 Campaign repeated by Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump
- Israel
- Pro-Israel Lobby- Jewish Institute for National Security of America JINSA
- Iran-Bolton pushed to terminate the deal with Iran
- People’s Mujahedin of Iran MEK-Anti-American, mixes Marxism and Islam. Background Information on Foreign Terrorist Organizations US State Dept. On January 25, 2011, before being listed as a terrorist organization, Bolton spoke in favor of the MEK’s legitimacy.
- Mitt Romney–Bolton was foreign policy adviser to 2012 presidential campaign
- GOPDonors–Bernard Marcus, Home Depot & Geoffrey Palmer, Los Angeles real estate developer who started the downtown revival by developing huge Italianate apartment buildings along 2 major stretches of interstate on the edge of downtown.[191]
- Wisconsin-2018 funded $1 million advertising campaign to fight Dem. Rep. Tammy Baldwin’s election (Kevin Nicholson, opponent)
- September 30, 2015, Freedom Capital Investment Management –Bolton became senior advisor overseeing international security, financial and political risks
- Military Industrial Complex
- EMS Technologies, Inc. (ELMG), a Georgia-based tech company- July 27, 2009, Bolton was appointed to the board of directors
John Bolton’s Curious Appearance In A Russian Gun Rights Video TIM MAK
Background: John Bolton’s Nomination to the U.N. NPR. June 3, 2005
Bolton Leaves the National Security Council in Ruins Foreign Policy BYHEATHER HURLBURT The former Trump advisor helped trash the institution—but the process began long before he was hired.
John Bolton: Stalwart Movement Conservative Written by NRA President & Friend David Keene
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to Leave the Trump White House New York Times By Robin Lindsay and Drew Jordan March 22, 2018 – Breaking News-After replacing Michael Flynn, former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton became the 27th National Security Advisor- Trump confirmed in a Tweet
John Bolton’s Super PAC Spent Millions On Senators Who Might Vote To Confirm Him. The Huffington Post December 12, 2016 Paul Blumenthal
John Bolton – eyed for Trump post – leads super PAC that employed Cambridge Analytica The Center for Public Integrity Carrie Levine March 20, 2018
With Bolton, Trump Creates a Historically Hard-Line Foreign Policy Team The New York Times David E. Sanger, March 22, 2018 John Bolton and Mike Pompeo replacing Rex Tillerson and Gen. H. R. McMaster is “”the most radically aggressive foreign policy team around the American president in modern memory”
Wikipedia “Bolton has been called a “war hawk” and is an advocate for regime change in Iran and North Korea and repeatedly called for the termination of the Iran deal.[18][19] He was an early supporter of the Iraq War and continues to back this position.[20] He has continuously supported military action and regime change in Syria, Libya, and Iran.[21][20] A Republican, his political views have been described as American nationalist,[22][23] conservative,[24][25][26][27] and “neoconservative“.[28] Bolton rejects the last term[29] and uses the term “pro-American” instead.[30][31][32]
The New York Times reported on March 22, 2018, that John Bolton would replace National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, which was confirmed by Trump in a tweet on March 22, 2018. Bolton began his position as National Security Advisor on April 9, 2018.[213][214] The New York Times wrote that the rise of Bolton and Mike Pompeo, coupled with the departure of Rex Tillerson and General McMaster, meant that Trump’s foreign policy team was now “the most radically aggressive foreign policy team around the American president in modern memory”, and compared it to the foreign policy team surrounding George W. Bush, notably with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.[215]
On April 10, 2018, Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert resigned at Bolton’s request,[216] and Bolton said he is considering a merger of the NSC with the Homeland Security Council.[217] During his first week in office Bolton requested and obtained the resignations of multiple National Security Council employees including NSC spokesman Michael Anton (April 8), deputy national security adviser Nadia Schadlow (April 10), and deputy national security adviser Ricky L. Waddell (April 12).[217] CNN reported in September 2018 that Bolton had significantly shrunk the number of NSC personnel, cutting it to under 300.[218][219]
On September 10, 2018, in his first major address as National Security Advisor, Bolton criticized the International Criminal Court, saying it lacks checks and balances, exercises “jurisdiction over crimes that have disputed and ambiguous definitions,” and has failed to “deter and punish atrocity crimes.” Calling the ICC a threat to “American sovereignty and U.S. national security,” Bolton said it is “superfluous,” given that “domestic judicial systems already hold American citizens to the highest legal and ethical standards.” He added that the U.S. would do everything “to protect our citizens” should the ICC attempt to prosecute U.S. servicemen over alleged detainee abuse in Afghanistan, and it would bar ICC judges and prosecutors from entering the U.S. and sanction their funds. He also criticized Palestinian efforts to bring Israel before the ICC over allegations of human rights abuses in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.[220][221][222]
Bolton is skeptical of international organizations and international law, believing them to endanger American sovereignty, and does not believe they have legitimate authority under the U.S. Constitution.[224][225] He criticized the Obama administration’s foreign policy for what he perceived as surrendering U.S. sovereignty.[226] He also prefers unilateralism over multilateralism.[224] In a 2000 article in the Chicago Journal of International Law, Bolton described himself as a “convinced Americanist”, favoring it over what he described as “globalism“.[227] In his roles in the U.S. government, however, Bolton has been more pragmatic in his actions regarding international organizations.[228]
Bolton has criticized the International Criminal Court, seeing it as a threat to U.S. sovereignty.[229]
Bolton is a critic of the European Union. In his book Surrender Is Not an Option, he criticized the EU for pursuing “the endless process of diplomatic mastication” rather than satisfactorily solving problems, and he labeled the organization’s diplomats as “EUroids”.[230] He has also criticized the EU for advancing what he considers liberal policies.[231] Bolton campaigned in Ireland against further EU integration in 2008, and he criticized the Treaty of Lisbon for expanding EU powers.[232] In 2016, Bolton praised the UK’s referendum vote to leave the EU.[233]
BACKGROUND
He declared himself in an interview with Edward Luce of the Financial Times in 2007 to be a “Goldwater conservative”, as opposed to being a neoconservative.[223] He also pointed out that he was a follower of Edmund Burke. He also said “I have always been a conservative. The idea of big-government conservatism has more neocon adherents than from unmodified conservatives.”
On episodes of Fox News in May and June 2008, Bolton suggested that Israel might attack Iran after US elections in November.[166][167]
In January 2009, Bolton proposed a three-state solution to the Arab Israeli conflict in which “Gaza is returned to Egyptian control and the West Bank in some configuration reverts to Jordanian sovereignty.”[168]
On July 27, 2009, Bolton was appointed to the board of directors for EMS Technologies, Inc. (ELMG), a Georgia-based tech company that subcontracts for many DOD contractors.[citation needed]
On Tuesday, September 6, 2011, Bolton announced on the Fox News show, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, that he would not run for President of the United States in 2012.[185]
Republican presidential-hopeful Newt Gingrich said that he would ask Bolton to serve as his Secretary of State.[186]
On January 11, 2012, Bolton endorsed Mitt Romney for the 2012 Republican Nomination.[187]
According to the 5 U.S.C. app. § 101-required ‘US Public Financial Disclosure Report’ (2018) for Bolton, released by Al-Monitor, he has received $40,000 of speaking fee for “Global Events–European Iranian Events” on June 1, 2017,[181] the same day he made a speech for the MEK in a gathering in Paris, France.[182]
In 2013, Bolton set up the John Bolton Super PAC. It raised $11.3 million for Republican candidates in the 2014 and 2016 elections and spent $5.6 million, paying Cambridge Analytica at least $650,000 for voter data analysis and digital video ad targeting in support of the campaigns of Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Richard Burr (R-N.C.), and of former U.S. Senator (R-MA) Scott Brown‘s unsuccessful 2014 bid for a U.S. Senate seat for New Hampshire.[191][192][193] In September 2016, Bolton announced that his Super PAC would spend $1 million on (R-N.C.) Senator Richard Burr‘s reelection effort by targeting ads at “social media users and Dish Network and Direct TV subscribers”.[194]
The Center for Public Integrity analysed the John Bolton Super PAC’s campaign finance filings and found that they paid Cambridge Analytica more than $1.1 million since 2014 for “research” and “survey research”.[195]
On Wednesday, September 30, 2015, Freedom Capital Investment Management appointed Bolton as a senior advisor to oversee the firm on international security, financial and political risks.[190]
According to Federal Election Commission filings, Cambridge Analytica was paid more than $811,000 by them [John Bolton Super PACs] in the 2016 presidential election;[196] in the same election cycle, the Super PAC spent around $2.5 million in support of Republican U.S. Senate candidates.[195]
In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt during the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign, Republican nominee Donald Trump named Bolton as a possible choice for Secretary of State. Appearing on Fox News’ Fox and Friends on December 1, 2016, Bolton admitted he was being considered as a Secretary of State candidate for the incoming Trump administration.[201][202] Several Trump associates claim Bolton was not chosen, in part, due to Trump’s disdain for Bolton’s signature mustache.[203]
The evening of December 10, the BBC cited NBC reports that “sources close to Mr Trump [were] … saying that Mr Tillerson is likely to be named next week” and that former UN ambassador John Bolton “will serve as his deputy“.[204]
Bolton has supported theories about the health of Hillary Clinton and about Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and in December 2016 Bolton stated that the conclusion of the United States Intelligence Community that Russian hackers intervened to help elect Donald Trump in 2016 may have been a “false flag” operation.[205] In a subsequent interview on Fox News, Bolton criticized the Obama administration’s retaliatory sanctions as insufficient and suggest that the US response should “make them [the Russians] feel pain”.[206][207]
Bolton stated that he aims to raise and spend $25 million for up to 90 Republican candidates in the 2018 midterm elections.[197] In January 2018, Bolton announced a $1 million advertising campaign in support of Kevin Nicholson’s bid for the Republican nomimation to run against incumbent Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.[197][198] The Super PAC ran an ad campaign in the Green Bay area in January 2018; on March 19, 2018, the Super PAC announced a two-week $278,000 television and radio ad campaign in the Milwaukee area.[199]