Withdrawal from NATO: Bolton says it’s “highly questionable” that Trump would stick with NATO through a second term. “I’m not averse to moving 9,000, 10,000 troops out of Germany if we’re going to move them to Poland or someplace else,” Bolton added. “But that’s not why he’s bringing those troops home. My first reaction [to Trump’s German troop drawdown announcement] was this is the beginning of the end.”

Alliances: “I think the alliances with Japan, South Korea, Australia, are question marks at this point,” Bolton said. “If you believe the world’s far away, then why have these alliances at all?”

Corruption: “I’m not talking about financial interests — that’s really the lowest level of concern,” Bolton said. “It’s the corruption of the judicial process, the use of the power of the federal government against people who disagree with him. Protecting people who do support him who may have run afoul of some other legal or regulatory structures. It’s a degradation of the strictures of the Constitution that become harder and harder to fix.”