Trump says he fired national security advisor John Bolton -- but Bolton says he 'offered to resign'
Source: CNBC
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he fired national security advisor John Bolton, saying on Twitter he had "disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions."
But minutes later, Bolton in his own tweet said that he "offered to resign" Monday night, and that Trump told him, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."
Either way, Bolton's departure shocked Washington, D.C.
"I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning," Trump said in a tweet.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/10/trump-says-he-fired-national-security-advisor-john-bolton.html
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Bolton will go over to the Dick's (Cheney) house and lay his head in the Dicks lap and the Dick will pet Bolton's head and tell him all will be okay.
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Bolton may have been the one member of Trump's inner circle who Putin hasn't got any dirt on.
rocktivity
Just saw the NYT breaking -
By Peter Baker
Sept. 10, 2019, 12:01 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — President Trump fired John R. Bolton, his third national security adviser, on Tuesday amid fundamental disagreements over how to handle major foreign policy challenges like Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan. Mr. Trump announced the decision on Twitter. “I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week.”
His departure comes as Mr. Trump is pursuing diplomatic openings with two of the United States’ most intractable enemies, efforts that have troubled hard-liners in the administration, like Mr. Bolton, who view North Korea and Iran as profoundly untrustworthy.
The president has continued to court Kim Jong-un, the repressive leader of North Korea, despite Mr. Kim’s refusal to surrender his nuclear program and despite repeated short-range missile tests by the North that have rattled its neighbors. In recent days, Mr. Trump has expressed a willingness to meet with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran under the right circumstances, and even to extend short-term financing to Tehran, although the offer has so far been rebuffed.
To his admirers, Mr. Bolton was supposed to be a check on what they feared would be naïve diplomacy, a cleareyed realist who would keep a president without prior experience in foreign affairs from giving away the store to wily adversaries. But Mr. Trump has long complained privately that Mr. Bolton was too willing to get the United States into another war. The tension between the men was aggravated in recent months by the president’s decisions to call off a planned airstrike on Iran in retaliation for the downing of an American surveillance drone and to meet with Mr. Kim at the Demilitarized Zone and cross over into North Korea.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/us/politics/john-bolton-national-security-adviser-trump.html
You bring a war-mongering neocon in and he will war-monger.
So what does Lindsey have to say about this?
He joins a growing line of discards -
(and ironically his predecessors were both generals yet Bolton was the war-mongeringest of all!)
is out. 
But ... with Trump we go from awful to more awful, so God knows who Bolton's replacement will be. 
Sen. Lindsey Graham
Sen. Tom Cotton
"It's because I wouldn't roll over and do everything that flea-bitten varmit said -- but it ain't as though we Republicans are put in jobs we're actually qualified for!"
rocktivity
Dude is texting everyone! Ha!
His already-tarnished rep has now taken a real good dive and he ain't havin' it!!! 
like Bolton.
Thanks, I really needed a. laugh.
The past 3 years have been such a nightmare. 
Bolton wanted to leave on his terms, but it appears that Chump just wanted to get the upper hand by "waiting until tomorrow". Figures.
'The Chosen 🍄,
The King of Micro Fungi'?
so I'd be curious to see what Bolton had suggested that was too much for Trump.
You just resigned.
See how that works?
Such a freaking clownshow this admin is
Bolton is a no good asshole but even he knows that Trump is nuts and bringing in the
Taliban on 9/11 had very bad optics.
Uh.....YOU hired him moron.
Only the "very best".
he'll pair up with "Mooch" and offer another line of "insight" into the "tRump" mis-administration!
?1489851492
Bolton's not getting a job with the NEXT president, whoever he or she may be.
Hopefully it's a Democrat!
Just sayin'
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you dad-gummed idjit.
rocktivity
...it's that time again,
...
