PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton slammed Trump as “not fit for office” and said he lacked “the competence” to be president in an excerpt from a television interview released Thursday morning.
Asked about Trump’s fitness for office, Bolton told ABC News, “I don’t think he’s fit for office. I don’t think he has the competence to carry out the job.”
“There really isn’t any guiding principle that I was able to discern other than what’s good for Donald Trump’s re-election,” he said.
Bolton’s book on his time in the White House, which is set for release June 23, alleges the president s consumed with re-election concerns and calls the president’s foreign policy “erratic,” according to excerpts reported by media outlets.
“I think he was so focused on re-election that longer-term consideration fell by the wayside,” Bolton said to ABC News of Trump’s approach to foreign policy.
Bolton called
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