Bolton pioneered some of the typical Trump techniques of making stuff up and then trying to push policy on the basis of his dark fantasies.
Bush tried to shoehorn him in as ambassador to the United Nations but Congress would not confirm him because he is a horrible, angry person who viciously mistreated his aides and tries to fume at people around him until he can intimidate them into taking orders from him on the basis of his crackpot theories. He is another example of psychopathocracy.
Bolton has strong ties to and has taken a lot of money from the People's Jihadis or (MEK), an Iranian cult-like organization founded in the 1970s that mixes Marxism with Shiite Muslim fundamentalism. The group has at times been on the US State Department list of terrorist organizations and it certainly has engaged extensively in terrorism, i.e., has killed civilians for political purposes. It more deserves the appellation than does Lebanon's Hizbullah, which mainly had fought in self-defense or against al-Qaeda.
The People's Jihadis are enormously well-funded but it is not clear where the group, which has no support inside Iran and mostly flourishes in the hothouse of expatriate coffee-shop plots in Paris and Los Angeles, gets its funding.
NBC at one point reported that US officials told it that Israeli intelligence, Mossad, funded the MEK.
More recently there have been allegations of Saudi funding for the People's Jihadis.
It is a measure of how putridly corrupt US politics are that politicians such as Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton have more or less been on the MEK payroll and therefore potentially in the back pocket of Israel's Likud Party and Saudi Arabia.
No wonder so few care that Trump might be a Russian mole. Apparently it is par for the course for our political leaders to be foreign moles.
Bolton seems to be a disturbed person who, if he hadn't gotten into Yale, might well have ended up an inwardly seething lower middle class white guy, and who would have been open to the blandishments of white supremacist hate groups such as the Neo-Nazis. As it is, he has the credentials and connections to parade as a normal person despite having actually run a hate group and having mysterious and deep links to a violent Iranian cult.
I'm not sure exactly what the Democratic House can do to forestall Bolton's peculiar Iranomania from plunging us into another generation of war and instability and bankruptcy. But they should do what they can to get the madman out of office.
Bonus video: Wochit News: "Report: Trump Administration Asked For Military Options To Strike Iran Last Fall"
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