There were reports yesterday about tensions between Trump and John Bolton and Secretary of State Pompeo, but we didn’t do much with them because they were anonymously sourced.
Today, Pompeo shot down the reports:
Pompeo on tensions with John Bolton: Those reports are unfounded, complete joke pic.twitter.com/HZuQAXebkl
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 7, 2018
Now there may still be some truth to what the reports said. After all, it was because of what Bolton said that the North Koreans called off their summit with Trump – I have to believe that this would have really angered the president.
Do they look at odds?
Amid reports of tension between the two men, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton chat with Sarah Sanders ahead of the press conference now. pic.twitter.com/DRW8dwfadR
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) June 7, 2018
Who knows.
Here’s what the reporting said yesterday:
As President Donald Trump huddled in the Oval Office on Friday with Kim Jong Un’s right-hand man, he was accompanied by only one other US official: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Absent was the administration’s most vocal North Korea hawk, national security adviser John Bolton.
The White House insists the meeting was always intended to remain small. But the tableau reflected deeper rifts among Trump’s national security team and a new reality as the President prepares for his historic meeting with Kim next week in Singapore: the voices advocating most forcefully to tighten the noose on Pyongyang have been sidelined as Trump seeks out a history-making handshake.
Furious after Bolton raised the so-called “Libya” model to describe US intentions in North Korea — with its suggestion of a grisly death for a dictator who relinquishes his nuclear arms — Trump has publicly walked back his national security adviser’s rhetoric as he works to ensure his summit talks with Kim proceed. In doing so, he’s dramatically lowered the bar for his face-to-face session with Kim, who has made no concrete commitments toward abandoning his nuclear arsenal.
We can’t know now – but we’ll know if Bolton gets let go very soon. If he stays on, then it’s likely this was a fake news report from loser and failing mainstream media hooers in bed with the deep state!!! #MAGA!!!