The Vindman Twins Are Creatures
of John Bolton
American Greatness,
by
Joseph Duggan
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/31/2020 7:11:18 PM
During his four decades as an accumulator of power in the nation’s capital, a holder of high offices in the State Department, and finally a stint as President Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton has been well known for his scrupulous attention to the hiring and firing of his staff.
He always has demanded unwavering personal loyalty as well as fealty to his own—not his president’s—policy agenda. He has performed the most rigorous vetting on all who have been selected to serve on his various staffs, both the small number of political appointees a political appointee such as himself is allowed to have as well as the more numerous personnel selected
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/31/2020 7:13:56 PM (No. 303567)
An example of Bolton’s “style”. I had no idea.
The extremes to which Bolton goes to enforce his Bolton-centric scheme of things were exposed dramatically in the episode of his handpicked choice as deputy national security advisor, Mira Ricardel. The latter had a well-deserved reputation as “Bolton’s Bolton”—that is, a screamer, a browbeater, and a toxic boss par excellence. Ricardel’s exercises in Attila the Hun’s management methods were so over-the-top that they attracted the displeased attention of First Lady Melania Trump, who took the rare step of publicly calling for Ricardel’s dismissal. Ricardel had denigrated and disparaged members of the first lady’s staff.
Notwithstanding the public denunciation of Ricardel by the first lady, a standoff ensued. Bolton never relented in his support for his hatchetwoman. Ricardel finally was pried away from her White House position in November 2018 at a moment when Bolton was out of the country and unable to barricade her office door.
This incident illumined in high relief that Bolton’s loyalties are never to his superiors but always to himself and to others only so long as they remain his sycophants.
There’s more. About the Vindman twins… Read on...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
frodo 1/31/2020 7:18:44 PM (No. 303576)
I have no knowledge one way or the other on this matter. However, if as reported, that his former chief of staff was calling for him (Bolton) to withdraw his book from publication, that would seem to undercut the assertions in this article.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/31/2020 7:22:28 PM (No. 303579)
This is an amazing read about Bolton and the Vindman twins. An incredible example of defective judgement. Or a diabolical intention to undermine the President and his Administration?
A highly recommended read. Duggan lays out a clear, but very disturbing (to use a threadbare cliche), story.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/31/2020 7:25:35 PM (No. 303586)
Bit much, really ?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/31/2020 7:28:13 PM (No. 303591)
Bolton’s former chief of staff was Fred Fleitz, with whom many of us are familiar. Here is an article that describes Fleitz’s “plea” to his former boss. Obviously issued some time after Fleitz no longer worked with Bolton. It has no connection with or affect on what Duggan writes about here. Duggan’s article also tells us that Fleitz must have had a fairly strong constitution to deal with Bolton…
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ambassador-bolton-withdraw-your-book-fred-fleitz
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/31/2020 8:08:33 PM (No. 303628)
The Ukrainian twins should be deported, just because. Bolton should walk them home, just on general principles.
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I don't post very much - but - this side of Bolton....I recall almost the whole of L.com hating my former boss, the late Sen George V Voinovich - when he railed against Bolton. There was a reason - or reasons - and only those of us who talked to him in gatherings before he died understood why he felt him a danger, I guess the book - if it is not redacted to extremes - might tell those stories. And some people should realize what was right to rail against w Bolton. I won't say more. You make your own decisions. My ex boss knew.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ginadee 1/31/2020 8:26:35 PM (No. 303644)
John Bolton is one of my biggest disappointments. I used to really like the guy. Now I feel sorry for him. He has lost a lot of former supporters. His own doing.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
dwa 1/31/2020 8:58:48 PM (No. 303668)
The NSC seems to be a den of leakers and anti-Trumpers. O'Brian should institute a policy of monthly lie detector tests to members of the NSC (and WH). If members don't want to take the test, they are gone. I'm sure there would be court cases, but seems with all the leaks the presidents team would be able to prevail, especially if it was done to everybody, not just certain people. A lie detector test (initial and monthly) should be required for the job.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/31/2020 11:39:34 PM (No. 303767)
All members of the DC career “Swamp” up against the “outsider” President Trump. Bolton’s career is over as after his disloyalty to the President one would have to be an absolute Moron to appoint Bolton to any position of trust. After this current impeachment effort is over, Trump is going to seriously downsize the National Security Council within the White House that was greatly expanded during the Obama Administration that is still loaded with Obama holdovers.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/1/2020 1:05:29 AM (No. 303800)
Bolton thought he was de facto president and got his comeuppance when President Trump removed him. His payback was becoming a "late" demonrat witness of nothing.
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