Bolton: Trump’s example has ‘unfortunate ripple effect’
Former national security adviser John Bolton said former President Trump hasn’t set a good example, claiming his actions could have an “unfortunately ripple effect.”
“I think the President’s example really has an unfortunate ripple effect throughout the bureaucracy and gives rise to a lot of cynicism and a lot of carelessness,” Bolton said on CNN on Friday, responding to reports that Trump shared classified information with an Australian billionaire.
The news, first reported by ABC News on Thursday, alleges former president talked about U.S. nuclear submarine capabilities with billionaire Anthony Pratt at his Mar-a-Lago club in early 2021. Trump supposedly revealed classified details on the amount of nuclear armaments carried by the submarines, alongside other information.
Pratt then shared that information with over a dozen foreign officials, journalists and some of his employees, ABC News reported.
The billionaire has already been questioned by FBI and Justice Department prosecutors regarding the information at least twice.
Bolton said Trump’s alleged actions in the situation wouldn’t be unexpected.
“A very insightful person said to me during the 2016 campaign, that ‘Trump has no filter between his brain and his mouth,’” Bolton said. “And I think that’s a big part of the problem here, but it displays itself in a lot of different ways.”
“There’s the famous story of him being shown a sensitive overhead photograph of a failed missile launch in Iran, which normally we wouldn’t even talk about. But he was so attracted to the photo that he asked to keep it,” Bolton added.
He went on to explain that it wasn’t long before Trump had shared it on social media.
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Iowa caves to Dems’ primary calendar eliminating it from early contests as New Hampshire continues rebellion
Iowa Democrats caved to the Democrat National Committee (DNC) on the party’s new presidential nominating calendar and will allow the state’s 2024 Democrat caucuses to move from one of the first contests in the nation, to an entirely vote-by-mail process with results released on March 5, or Super Tuesday.
The DNC rules panel on Friday approved the plan Iowa Democrats released earlier in the day that would see what has been the country’s first presidential contest since 1972 move to a months-long process where voters have from mid-January until March to mail-in their presidential preference card.
Registration to receive a card will begin on November 1, and they will start being mailed out on January 12. Democratic voters have until February 19 to request a card, and must have them mailed by March 5.
But Iowa Democrat’s representative to the DNC panel said that the changes were only for 2024.
“We intend to be first in 2028,” said Scott Brennan told the DNC committee, the Des Moines Register reported. “So we’re here to support the president in 2024, and by releasing the results on March 5, that’s what we’re doing. But all bets are off for 2028.”
Iowa’s decision to comply with the DNC comes as the the party’s fight continues with the crucial early voting state of New Hampshire over an effort to dramatically refigure the 2024 presidential nominating calendar. The Granite State’s governor, Republican Chris Sununu, vowed it “will not back down” on its effort to keep its primary the first in the nation.
The DNC overwhelmingly voted in early February to dramatically alter the top of its presidential nominating calendar for the 2024 election cycle, bumping Iowa and New Hampshire from their longtime leadoff positions in favor of South Carolina in order to better reflect Black and Hispanic voters in the early primary contests.
Democrats for years have knocked both Iowa and New Hampshire as unrepresentative of the party as a whole, for being largely White with few major urban areas. Nevada and South Carolina, which in recent cycles have voted third and fourth on the calendar, are much more diverse than either Iowa or New Hampshire. Nevada and South Carolina were added to the Democratic calendar nearly two decades ago to increase the diversity of the early states electorate.
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But both Iowa and New Hampshire balked at the changes.
The DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee voted last month to grant New Hampshire — which for a century has held the first primary in the race for the White House — a third extension to give the state more time to come into compliance with the national party committee’s new schedule.
The move by the panel came after New Hampshire Secretary of State Dave Scanlan announced that his state’s presidential primary filing period would start on Oct. 11, leading to a contest that will likely be held in late January — ahead of South Carolina — and putting the Granite State on a collision course with the DNC.
The extension unanimously granted by the DNC panel on Thursday would last until Oct. 14.
However, New Hampshire is likely to eventually be found in non-compliance and penalized, with the state all but certain to hold an unsanctioned primary that would probably keep President Biden from putting his name on the ballot.
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Democratic rep to Sen. Vance on Ohio picket line: ‘First time here?’
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) appeared to make a slight dig at her Ohio delegation colleague Sen. J.D. Vance (R) during an interaction on a United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line in their home state.
“First time here?” Kaptur asked Vance, according to a video from local station WTVG 13 Action News.
“First time here, yeah,” Vance responded.
“Thank you for coming,” she then said.
The brief conversation followed an awkward interaction during which Kaptur held out a fist as Vance extended an open hand for a shake. Vance then attempted to extend his hand for a fist bump as Kaptur drew her hand back.
The two Ohio politicians were on a picket line at the Toledo Assembly Complex in Toledo, Ohio, according to a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter by 13Action News. The plant appears to be aligned with Stellantis, one of the Big Three auto companies UAW workers are striking against.
Vance has said that UAW members should compel President Joe Biden and the Biden administration to end the subsidization of the electric vehicle (EV) industry.
“Those who have claimed there will be a ‘just transition’ to EVs should visit Northeast Ohio for a glimpse into the industry’s bleak future,” Vance wrote in an op-ed for the Toledo Blade in September.
He also called on UAW leadership to act, arguing this is “an opportunity they cannot let slip through their grasp.”
“Rather than relenting to the Biden administration’s unjust transition to EVs, the UAW should use their leverage and force the President to stop subsidizing an industry that benefits Communist China more than it does American workers,” he continued.
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