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| Former Ambassador John Bolton: Trump Must Triumph Over Advisers to Scrap Iran Deal |
| 2017-08-30 |
| [Free Beacon] President Donald Trump will have to override his advisers if he wants to make good on a campaign promise to abandon the Iran nuclear agreement, according to former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, who published a draft proposal for exiting the accord on Monday. Bolton alluded to a rift within the administration over whether the United States should scrap the landmark deal, and said he was recently denied a meeting with Trump on the issue after staff changes at the White House. "It's a question of who prevails here: the president or his advisers," Bolton told the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday. "Based on what's been reported in the press, I think [Trump] does believe this deal is detrimental to American interests, so if he wants to get out of it I'm providing a way to do it." Bolton, once considered for secretary of state and national security adviser during the presidential transition, said in an op-ed published Monday in National Review he was asked last month by Trump's now-ousted strategist, Steve Bannon, to draft a policy proposal on how the United States could withdraw from the nuclear accord. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Maybe he needs different advisors...again. Bring back Bannon and Flynn. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-30 13:49 |
| #1 Permitting his family to get involved in his administration was unwise. He may now have found himself compromised. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-08-30 08:11 |