Third for 2,5 of the year: Trump fired another national security adviser

US President Donald Trump fired National Security Advisor John Bolton after months of disagreement over foreign and national security policies.

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Trump announced the dismissal of Bolton on Tuesday, September 10, on Twitter, writes NRP.

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Bolton responded with his own post, claiming that he had put forward the idea of ​​resignation, and Trump decided to wait until the next day.

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Bolton was Trump's third national security adviser and continued the tendency to lay off employees who turned out to be unsuitable for the White House, led by a president who has no experience in the army, national security, or in elected positions, the newspaper notes.

White House deputy spokeswoman Hogan Gridley told reporters that Bolton’s deputy Charles Kupperman will now act as national security adviser. As Bolton’s protégé, Kupperman is unlikely to last a very long time; Trump said he will appoint a new adviser next week.

“Bolton’s priorities and policies simply do not align with the president’s,” Gridley said. “There’s not a single problem here, they just didn’t agree on many issues.”

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Summit that was not

The dismissal followed events that began with Trump's Twitter announcement that he invited delegations from Afghanistan, including the Taliban, to Camp David for peace talks, but then canceled the meeting.

Tension reached its climax when Bolton was not allowed to attend meetings on the war in Afghanistan, otherwise this problem could be within the competence of the national security adviser. But Trump became a dove of peace and wanted to reach a peace agreement that would allow most or all of the US military forces to withdraw from Afghanistan, the newspaper notes.

Allies of the president felt that they could not trust Bolton, so that he would not interrupt the process. Bolton could complicate earlier negotiations, insisting on a tougher stance with North Korea. At some point, special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad did not agree to let Bolton take the draft agreement on Afghanistan from the meeting room where they met, The Washington Post reports.

"I knew there were some concerns about the whole meeting with the Taliban, but I didn't know for sure," Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters Tuesday.

Graham, once a presidential ally but skeptical of the talks in Afghanistan, expressed the view that Trump should have a consultant whom he sees at this job.

Differences of this kind between Trump and Bolton eventually divorced both at different poles.

“The president has been expressing his dissatisfaction with him for some time,” said Fernando Catz, who served as a senior director on the National Security Council in the Trump administration until last year.

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“We've seen a lot of the telltale signs that a president uses when he doesn't like someone: in Bolton's case, he was isolated from meetings, sent to Mongolia when he was going to North Korea, and sent to Warsaw when he wanted to make a key decision. according to the Taliban."

Bolton's aggressive stance on Venezuela, North Korea and Afghanistan came into conflict with the relative unwillingness of his boss to arrange new confrontations and his enthusiasm for the elimination of some of the old ones.

It was noted that Bolton was a decisive force in pushing through an agreement between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, extracting broad concessions from Kim on his weapons of mass destruction. North Korean officials later called Bolton "short-sighted."

“In all three countries, North Korea, Iran and Venezuela, Bolton wanted war and the president did not,” Kutz said.

Long confrontation

Trump administration officials told the press for some time that the president was worried about Bolton's moves. Trump was not happy that Bolton was pushing the US to the brink of crisis with Iran. At the same time, although Trump admitted that he liked Bolton, he expressed his understanding of the need to curb his aspirations.

Even before Trump brought Bolton to the administration, he sought his informal advice and liked Bolton's television appearances. Soon, a new national security adviser took office at the top of the official apparatus, forming staff with his appointees and developing policy.

To a certain extent, the confrontation between Bolton and Trump opened almost immediately, based on the president’s free style, which included open statements through Twitter.

Trump said over the summer that "we'll see" whether Washington would recognize Ukraine's borders following Russia's invasion of Crimea and across the country's eastern border. Bolton was then asked whether the US administration would recognize Russia's demands based on the use of force. The national security adviser, no fan of Moscow, sought to distinguish between Trump's thinking and what the Council or the Defense Department might do.

“This is not the position of the United States,” Bolton said at the time.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• 28 AUGUST John Bolton flew to Ukrainewhere he met with Ukrainian officials and President Vladimir Zelensky. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Danilyuk said that the topic of the meeting with his American counterpart was “enhancing relations between Ukraine and the United States of America in the field of national security.”
• After Bolton's visit to Kiev, US President Donald Trump instructed to review military assistance to Ukraineto make sure that the allocated funds are used in the best way possible from the point of view of Washington’s interests. It was stated that during the review, money from the military budget would be frozen. The audit will be conducted by Head of the Department of Defense Mark Esper and Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security John Bolton.
• After this decision, a group of American senators from both parties sent a letter to the head of the White House Administrative and Budgetary Office Miku Mulvani keep providing military assistance to Ukraine and “immediately” resume the receipt of funds.
• 29 AUGUST BOLTON visited Belarus. He became the highest ranking representative of the American authorities of all who have been in the country over the past 20 years. Bolton met with the President of Belarus and during the meeting said that Washington hopes to find a common language with Minsk in respect of human rights and non-proliferation of weapons. Alexander Lukashenko noted that Belarus has always advocated normalizing relations with the United States and wants to start from scratch.

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