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'Dr. Strangelove with a mustache': Bolton blasted for 'profiteering' off US secrets by White House advisor
Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro tore into John Bolton for "profiteering off Americas secrets" on Tuesday after the FBI raided his home last week in a reported classified document probe."Iserved with Bolton, and he was far too frequently a loose cannon, bent on bombings and coups Doctor Strangelove with a mustache," Navarro, who also advised Trump on trade during his first term, wrote in an op-ed for The Hill."He agitated for airstrikes, pushed regime-change fantasies, and obsessed over military solutions when diplomacy was working. Then, instead of honoring executive privilege and confidential debate, Bolton acknowledged that in writing his memoir he relied on thecopious notes he had conspicuously taken inside the White House."Bolton published a book in 2020, The Room Where it Happened, reportedly receiving a $2 million advance for a tell-all of his time in the Trump administration. He served as Trumps national security advisor starting in 2018 but fell out with the president and left the position in 2019.BOLTON UNLEASHES ON TRUMP UKRAINE POLICY DAYS AFTER FBI RAIDNavarro accused Bolton of "sharing information about Oval Office conversations and national security that should have stayed secret either by law or under executive privilege.""That isnt service. That isnt patriotism. Thats profiteering off of Americas secrets."Navarro noted that Bolton had described confidential U.S. deliberations on how to fracture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduros control and prompt military defections."That kind of blueprint isnt something you hand to the public or to Maduros intelligence services."He noted that disclosing national defense information without authorization could violate U.S. code."If evidence is found and indictments made, Bolton may one day go to prison for shredding that Constitution, defying executive privilege, and trampling safeguards meant to protect Americas security," Navarro said. "If that happens, Bolton wont be remembered for his book tour. Hell be remembered for the sequel he writes in prison."Fox News Digital has reached out to a spokesperson for Bolton for comment.DEMOCRATS OPPOSED JOHN BOLTON FOR YEARS UNTIL THEY SOUGHT HIM AS AN ALLY AGAINST TRUMPNavarro spent four months in prison last year after being convicted of contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas from the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack.The FBI executed a search warrant on Boltons home and office on Friday.Democrats have also fumed about Boltons book: when the former national security advisor refused to serve as their star witness during the first Trump impeachment related to Ukraine, they accused him of saving the juicy details for his memoir.In June 2020, Judge Royce Lamberth found Bolton had "likely jeopardized national security by disclosing classified information in violation of his nondisclosure agreement obligations."Hed submitted the 500-page manuscript for a national security review, but when the review wasnt completed in four months, he "pulled the plug on the process and sent the still-under-review manuscript to the publisher for printing," according to the judge.Lamberth allowed the book to hit the shelves because"the horse is already out of the barn" the books excerpts had already been leaked and 200,000 copies had been shipped.
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