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Bolton was ‘way out of line’ on Venezuela, Trump says… as Pompeo shells out more of the same policy
Speaking for the first time about reasons for firing his national security advisor John Bolton, US President Donald Trump said he was “way out of line” on Venezuela, even as the State Department doubled down on regime change.
“I disagreed with John Bolton on his attitudes about Venezuela. I thought he was way out of line,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Wednesday.
The failed attempt to effect regime change in Caracas – which Bolton has been at the forefront of since January – was only one of the issues the president brought up. Bolton’s sabotage of denuclearization talks with North Korea, earlier this year, was another.
Trump on Bolton Screwing up North Korea Talks:
"We were set back very badly when Bolton talked about the Libyan model...what a disaster take a look at what happened to Gaddafi...that's not a question of being tough that's a question of being not smart to say something like that" pic.twitter.com/gK8brfNfCs
— The Columbia Bugle
