By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--March 27, 2018
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Former president Jimmy Carter, one of the few U.S. officials who has traveled to North Korea and met with its leaders, expresses hope for the planned White House summit with Pyongyang but warns that President Trump may have made “one of the worst mistakes” of his tenure by naming John Bolton to the sensitive post of national security adviser. In an exclusive interview with USA TODAY, pegged to the publication of his new book titled Faith, Carter calls Bolton “a warlike figure” who backs policies the former president calls catastrophic. “Maybe one of the worst mistakes that President Trump has made since he’s been in office is his employment of John Bolton, who has been advocating a war with North Korea for a long time and even an attack on Iran, and who has been one of the leading figures on orchestrating the decision to invade Iraq,” Carter said. He called the appointment, announced last week, “a disaster for our country.”The funniest news here is probably that USA Today unironically ran the story as "breaking news," as if the nation was waiting with bated breath to find out what Jimmy Carter thought about this or anything else for that matter. I've rarely felt safer than I feel right now, knowing that a man who terrified Jimmy Carter for being "warlike" has the ear of the man in the Oval Office.
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