The Choice 2020: John Bolton (interview) | FRONTLINE
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Publicado 2020-09-22
The following interview was conducted by FRONTLINE’s Gabrielle Schonder on July 31, 2020 during our reporting for the “The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden” — FRONTLINE’s critically acclaimed election series featuring the interwoven, investigative biographies of both presidential candidates. It has been edited for clarity and length.
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I am a history graduate. One of the reasons why I didn't feel Trump was capable of doing the job is just what Bolton is referring to here- Trump doesn't know anything about world history or even national history, nor does he care to learn. I don't think he is capable of learning history and he doesn't really care to learn anyway. How can you have a president who doesn't know history? He makes foreign policy decisions without knowing these things. I find that to be absurd. It really sets the nation back.
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How far we have fallen that John Bolton is the voice of reason. If it were up to him we would be in Iran right now.
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone get called a coward so politely and so many times in one conversation.
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For my money I don't know if it gets any better than when John Bolton sings, "The President Has The Attention-Span of a Child". I am a fan...I celebrate the man's entire catalog.
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This is so basic. Bolton finally realized he couldn’t control trump. He then bolted.
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Dear Frontline, your documentaries are truly amazing and succeed most of the time in keeping me from my work🤣
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Although I am pretty liberally minded, i find this guy very articulate. I don't have to agree with his politics to respect his intelligence
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The beauty of these interviews is the comments.
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I would, politically, disagree with everything that Bolton stands for; but, I can see that he has a clear, concise and articulate thought process. It must have been torture for him to have to listen to and deal with the scatterbrain that is Trump, whose thought process is comparable to how an air-filled balloon flies randomly and chaotically around after one releases the nozzle.
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All I see when John Bolton speaks is a man who could have saved America from The Donald a few times by actually testifying and speaking out before his book was released. If he felt so strongly about Trump's incompetence, he should have spoken up when it mattered. He's a self-serving opportunist - period.
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Trump just had a rally in Charlotte NC and said "he loves Charlotte and has always considered himself a Charlatan"
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Thanks a lot Bolton. I’m so glad to hear your opinions are iron clad and formed early in your tenure. Thanks for being there, pal.
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"A one note piano concert", a more apt description of Trump I have not seen.
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John's read of Trump is the most accurate I have heard. I will even say it is comprehensive.
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9:16 He didn’t prove anybody wrong, he himself didn’t think he would win! All it did was comfirm the american election system is broken.
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Just unfit for the job, period. So dangerous.
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And this is what normalizing a war criminal looks like🙄
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Funny that Trump supporters are commenting how terrible Bolton is when he was hand picked by Trump.
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Thank you Frontline.
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Profound honesty-thank you, sir. Can we have another!
