.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump ousts Bolton as National Security Adviser.
Donald Trump’s first choice for White House national security adviser – a critically important and highly influential position – was Michael Flynn. The former foreign agent lasted a few weeks before resigning in disgrace and is currently awaiting sentencing following felony convictions.
This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone. It was just last week that we talked about the series of reports going back months about the growing distance between Trump and Bolton. At times, that distance was literal: when the president traveled to the Korean peninsula in June, and entered North Korea, he brought with him family members and a Fox News host, but not his top aide on matters of national security.
Stepping back, though, the question isn’t why the president fired yet another national security adviser; the question is why in the world Trump thought Bolton was a good choice in the first place. As regular readers know, the dynamic couldn’t have been simpler: non-interventionist presidents shouldn’t hire warmongers to guide the White House on matters of national security.
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