Well here's something I didn't know. 2 Scoops made Yosemite Dick read the N Korea breakup letter
back to him:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/07/trump-bolton-north-korea-630362
Without that coordinated process, the president “cannot understand the equities that different elements of the government have in this,” said a former senior Bush administration official who served both in the White House and at the State Department. The White House declined to comment for this article.
Part of the problem is Trump’s on-and-off chemistry with Bolton. The president fumed after Bolton spoke of a hard-line “Libya model” for North Korean denuclearization on CBS News in late April — implying that the U.S. would make no concessions until after Kim had physically surrendered his nuclear program. After North Korea responded furiously, Trump blamed Bolton for derailing the summit. In turn, Trump dictated to Bolton a letter to Kim canceling the nuclear summit and insisted that Bolton read it back to him.
On Friday, when a top North Korean official arrived in Washington, the president did not invite Bolton to join them in the Oval Office — another departure from tradition, in which the national security adviser attends every significant meeting with a foreign official. A second former Bush NSC official said he could not recall a single important meeting for which the president’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was not present.
“The pageantry of who’s in or not does matter here, and I think the president is probably signaling that that kind of a model is not what he has in mind,” Suzanne DiMaggio, director and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said at a Monday lunch for reporters.
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