Bolton: Democrats’ ‘Level of Hypocrisy’ on Russia ‘Hard to Match’

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton blasted hypocritical Democrats for trashing President Donald Trump at every opportunity, during an interview Monday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

Ingraham referred to comments that faithful Trump critics Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made on the Sunday morning talk shows; they criticized the president for his desire to establish a working relationship with Russia.

“It does seem like we get these Republicans coming out one after the other trashing Trump. I mean, they might as well be with [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer on these issues because they — one after the other comes out, they weren’t at the meeting — but they do have a very negative view on anything that could happen between the United States and Russia that could be positive,” Ingraham noted.

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Bolton replied, “Well, let’s trash the Democrats for a while then.”

“I mean, these are the people who thought it was a terrible idea to get out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty so that we could build a national missile defense system. These are the people who have never seen an arms control agreement with the Russians they didn’t support. And then they’re telling us that somewhat Trump doesn’t understand the Russians?” he continued.

“I mean really, it’s the — it goes to the point you made a moment ago that [the Democrats] never break step,” Bolton said. “They follow somebody’s political direction and the fact that they’re contradicting their own positions going back 30 years and demonstrating a level of hypocrisy that’s really hard to match just doesn’t faze them in the slightest.”

Bolton also blasted those on both the Left and the Right who criticized Trump’s defiant speech in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday in which he offered a defense for Western values and culture amid rising threats.

“And for those in the United States that are criticizing it, we ought to ask them a simple question: Do you favor Western civilization or not?” he said.

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Bolton noted, however, that he also had concerns regarding Trump’s first meeting with Putin as president Friday at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.

“It would be nice if we had basis for trust there, and I think this really does go to the central question at the meeting,” he said. “But the issue of whether Russia did try to interfere in the election to hack into the RNC, hack into the DNC — this is what Russia does. They’re doing it all over Europe. They’ve done it in other places well. And so Trump put it directly to Putin — again, contrary to what the Democrats thought he would do,” Bolton said, noting that The New York Times reported that Trump and Putin “spent 40 minutes of that meeting talking about Russian interference in our elections.”

“And so Trump did what a president of the United States should do, and then Vladimir Putin unfortunately did what lots of presidents of Russia do. He just flat-out lied to Trump and said, ‘We didn’t do it,'” Bolton said. “So to me, what that says is — look, this tells you the measure of that regime. They’ll lie on anything when they need to. So as you say, there are other issues to discuss, but let’s be clear — if Vladimir Putin is prepared to lie on that issue, you’ve got to take everything else he says in the same way.” (go to page 2 to continue reading)[lz_pagination]