Trump tweeted out his firing of John Bolton, who will be missed by a small group of neocon foreign policy thinkers but less so by hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians
, less than an hour before the tweet, the White House informed the press corps that Bolton would be briefing them, along with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Steven Mnuchin, at 1:30 p.m.reports
, the pair’s falling out stemmed from Trump’s interest in hosting the Taliban for peace talks at Camp David. Bolton was the secretary of state and UN ambassador during President George W. Bush’s administration. He was a leading proponent of the invasion of Iraq. So long, John Bolton. You’ll be missed by a small, elite group of neocon foreign policy thinkers but less so by hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians.
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