Ex-national security adviser warns 'fundamentally ignorant' Trump is unfit for second term

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton is among the conservative Republicans who served in former President Donald Trump's administration but has since become highly critical of him and hopes that he won't be the GOP's 2024 presidential nominee. Trump, however, enjoys sizable double-digit leads over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in countless polls, and the election is shaping up to be a Trump/President Joe Biden rematch.

During a Thursday morning, February 1 appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Bolton warned that Trump will be a foreign policy disaster if he returns to the White House in January 2025 — including U.S. withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The neocon hawk told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, "When he, for example, threatens to get out of NATO as he did during his first term and has done since then, I think people better believe it. And I think that would be a catastrophic mistake for American national security and the security of the West as a whole."

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Bolton said of Trump, "He's fundamentally ignorant, and he really doesn't care about the facts. He thinks international relations are about personal relations, which is a line and approach that I can tell you, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are eagerly looking forward to."

When Brzezinski asked Bolton if he considered Haley a "viable alternative" to Trump, Bolton responded, "Well, I would advise her — I hope she would stay until the convention and carry the banner for anybody who doesn't want Trump. A meteor might yet strike the Earth, that's possible. It's possible there will be an event in one of these criminal prosecutions that would really wake a lot of people up. Until the convention in August, I just don't think we should surrender, in effect, to Trump."

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