President Donald Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton was the subject of a glossy POLITICO profile in February lauding him as “the adult in the room.” Titled, “John Bolton Is Living His Dream,” the piece examined the aide’s unlikely rise in a West Wing known more for its infighting than policy objectives, revealing he kept in his office a Wall Street Journal cartoon of himself and Trump playing chess against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei—signed by the president, “John Great Job.”

Today, the hawkish advisor has become somewhat of an irritant to the president, according to multiple media reports. The Washington Post on Wednesday reported that Trump grew angry over an escalation of threats toward Iran, taking issue with Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo—the former of whom has long endorsed regime change in the region.

more yet: https://governmentslaves.news/2019/05/16/john-bolton-downgraded-from-trumps-hype-man-to-irritant-amid-iran-war-escalation/

: BATTLE FOR WORLD / THE GUARDIAN | May 16, 2019: The article
: highlights that the United States is closer to starting war
: with Iran than it has been since previous administrations.
: And Bolton is largely to blame for this posture.

: President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton
: has been pushing for the United States to go to war with
: Iran even before he was assigned to his post. And many in

: the media are well aware of this because he has been
: talking about it for nearly two decades.

: Everything that the Trump administration has implemented in
: its Iran policy, particularly since Bolton became Trump’s
: top foreign policy adviser in April of 2018, must be viewed
: through this lens, including the alarming US military
: posturing in the Middle East of the past two weeks. Which
: is much welcomed and encouraged by the Israeli government
: of Benjamin Netanyahu.

: Just after one month on the job, Bolton has been a destructive
: force, giving Trump the final push to withdraw from the
: Iran nuclear agreement, which at the time was successfully
: monitoring Iran’s nuclear program and blocking its pathways
: to build a nuclear bomb.

: Bolton has no problem with manipulating or outright ignoring
: intelligence to advance his agenda (-- specifically, that
: of the Neocons and the Ziocons to create a greater Israeli
: in the Middle-East, and said if he had to lie, he would do
: it), which is exactly what’s taking place now to shape that
: future reality.

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