John Bolton made the rounds on the Sunday political talk show circuit but has started to encounter resistance from, of all people, MSNBC. Host Chris Hayes said that the GOP is more the “party of John Bolton” than the “party of Donald Trump,” noting that Bolton served in the last two Republican administrations he’s a “vicious bureaucratic infighter” who is “duplicitous,” “untrustworthy,” and “extremely militaristic.”

This is even after Bolton tried to placate the press by saying to ABC he would not vote for Donald Trump. But he also won’t vote for Joe Biden.

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Said Hayes, “He’s (Bolton) a completely morally odious individual you wouldn’t want in your organization or anywhere around you. John Bolton could spend the rest of his life like Lady MacBeth trying to wash the blood off his hands and it would be there still. And now, Bolton is attempting to literally cash in on betrayal of his country. Again, all of which is par for the course for the modern Republican Party…Wow, guess what. Donald Trump is exactly as terrible as we thought he was. And John Bolton is exactly who we thought he was as well. Because he didn’t say anything about any of this when it happened. He was sitting there the whole time, all of these horrible things he just made $2 million off of.”

Hayes finished off with, “Instead, what he did was he lobbied for over a year to get a position in the administration and then he immediately started working on a book that he could sell instead of telling the American people that they were in grave danger because the country was being run by an immoral brute.” Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Trump and the GOP. But not what Bolton expected from his pals in the media either. Interestingly enough, when Bolton hit back it wasn’t the press he directed his salvos at, but the Democrats. Apparently he realizes who the media takes their orders from.

Bolton said to ABC, “I was fully prepared, if I got a subpoena like everybody else who testified got a subpoena. I think the way the House advocates of impeachment proceeded was badly wrong. I think it was impeachment malpractice. I think they were determined because of their own political objectives to conduct an impeachment proceeding that was very narrowly focused on Ukraine, and that went very, very quickly.”

 

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He warmed to the attack, “Now, I find that conduct almost as bad and somewhat equivalent to Trump, that they’re torquing one of the gravest constitutional responsibilities the House of Representatives has, the power of impeachment, around their presidential nomination schedule. And, they failed utterly to accomplish what they wanted. In fact, they made things worse, because their strategy fitted with the Trump political strategy. Keep it narrow, and move it fast. So, what did they do? The House advocates said, ‘We have proven Trump is impeached forever, and that he’d learn a lesson from it.’ Fundamentally, the pursuit of the Russia collusion issue was, I think, for many Democrats, an effort to delegitimize the Trump presidency. I think the House Democrats built a cliff, they threw themselves off of it. Halfway down, they looked up and saw me, and said, ” ‘Hey, why don’t you come along?’ “