Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser in 2019, said such a statesmanship endeavor, such as a peace-negotiating trip to Moscow, is out of Trump’s nature and character.
“He’s not capable of it,” Bolton said. “This would require thinking through a policy and considering the pluses and minuses, the risks and costs involved. That’s just not what he does.”
Bolton, who infamously derided Rudy Giuliani’s dirt-digging efforts in Ukraine as “a drug deal,” instead said Trump would have gifted Russia Ukraine had he been re-elected.
He said Trump’s withholding of the $250 million in military aid put the assistance in far more jeopardy than was understood.
“The urgency of the particular $250 million was that it was appropriated money that under the federal government’s bizarre budget procedures would have expired on Sept. 30, 2019,” Bolton recalled.
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