Going Anti-Trump Would Cost Bolton His Access to the World of Rightwing Grift

[muriel_volestrangler]

The word is that John Bolton is not going quietly after President Trump’s ostentatious slam-dunking of him on Twitter. Maybe he won’t. But there’s a part of this equation I doubt we’ll see much discussed in the press coverage of this story. Bolton isn’t really a foreign policy guy and hasn’t been for more than a decade. Yes, he still discusses foreign policy and for the last year or so he had what is basically the top foreign policy job in the US government. But since the end of the Bush years Bolton has really been a public politics guy and a consummate player in the GOP buck-raking industrial complex.

Bolton had a $500,000 a year gig with Fox News. But he also had a slew of PACs and fundraising entities dedicated to sounding the alarm about bad acting regimes and sending money into John Bolton’s pocket. He became one of the GOPs many professional yakkers and scaremongers making big dollars raising money off the folks who watch Fox News.
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I have no doubt that Bolton wants to roast Trump alive. Partly it’s just payback for canning and humiliating him. But Bolton must also be horrified by what Trump appears to want to do in Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea and various other places. But if Bolton goes full Trump critic it’s very hard to see how he’s ever going to make the massive paydays he was before Trump picked him.

Not that that’s the end of the world. I’m sure he’s a wealthy man and he could find other ways to make money. But that’s a Fox News world. And if goes anti-Trump that world will be closed to John Bolton. And that big money is going to be really hard to forego.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/going-anti-trump-would-cost-bolton-his-access-to-the-world-of-rightwing-grift

[hlthe2b]

1. Yup.. He's too awful to make it as a "never Trumper" pundit on CNN/MSNBC

so, he's going to face major consequences if he offends the Fox crowd. Not that I care, of course, and I think he's got such a chip on his shoulder now that he's going to "blow" at some point, but...

[empedocles]

2. In his own bolton way, he could be useful to add to the anti -trump informations

[True Blue American]

5. Fox and Friends

Reads Bolton text on air.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/460824-fox-friends-host-reads-text-on-air-from-bolton-disputing-trump-tweet

[hatrack]

3. Gsoh, how can I put this . . . .

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[Vinca]

4. I think it already has. I saw a clip of Tucker Carlson calling him a leftie. Honest.