John Bolton tests the GOP’s fealty to Trump
Jan 31, 2020
3 minutes
By Vera Bergengruen
PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEX WONG
OHN BOLTON IS NOBODY’S IDEA OF A LEFTIST. For the better part of three decades, Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser has been a leading voice for hawkish American foreign policy, arguing for military intervention, railing against treaties and personifying the hard right wing of the Republican Party. So it was a sign of just how fraught Trump’s impeachment trial had become in its second week when the President’s defenders on cable TV began labeling Bolton a “tool for the left” and
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