29 Nov “Trump is doomed to fail in his latest bid to win the US presidency” – John Bolton
DONALD Trump’s former national security advisor has predicted that he will fail in his latest bid to win the US presidency.
He told GB News: “My guess is that Donald Trump will not get the Republican nomination. It may be Ron DeSantis, he would be the front runner now.
“But we’ve got a very deep bench of people who are running. And while we’re on the subject, I don’t think Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee in 2024. I think he will declare he’s not running for a second term at some appropriate point in 2023.
“I don’t think Kamala Harris will get their nomination either. I think they’re going to have a wide-open fight.”
Speaking exclusively to Nigel Farage on GB News he continued: “I would say this. I think Trump’s past his prime now. And I don’t I don’t mean in the Biden sense. I mean, his act is the same act as it was before. And I do think Republicans are looking for a fresh face.
“That may be a controversial view in some circles, but I think that’s what it is.”
When quizzed on UK politics he said of the current Conservative government: “The Conservatives have to get their act together and rally behind what distinguishes them for British voters.
“And I think the most important principle they’ve stood for since the time of the referendum was getting out of the European Union and ending the fixation with Europe and focusing on the rest of the world.
“Even today, the remainers in the Conservative Party, let alone the rest of the establishment, are doing what I would consider a kind of Trumpian thing, they will not accept the results of the 2016 referendum.
“That cost Britain six years of opportunities to make economic advancements around the world. It’s not too late. A vigorous approach to this, I think, will pay enormous dividends for Britain.
“But your future is not with the bureaucratic sinking ship of the European Union. I’ve said for a long time, the European Union is less than the sum of its parts.
“The United States is harmed by Europe’s inadequacies. That’s why I welcomed Britain coming out of the European Union. You’re a global power again. And that’s Britain’s proper place.”
Asked about the protests in Iran, Mr Bolton told GB News: “When Trump withdrew from the [Iran] deal, quite correctly, in my view, because it’s a bad deal, the Biden administration came in determined to put it back in place, and they have made concession after concession to Tehran in an effort to do that.
“France, Germany and Britain are more sceptical of the deal today than the Biden administration is, but what everybody should be looking at are the demonstrations in Iran, all across the country, directly aimed at the legitimacy of the regime.
“This is not a dispute that the women have brought up about a dress code, they are saying we can make our own decisions, we’re not going to listen to the Ayatollahs say.
“And while again, I don’t think the regime in Tehran is going to fall tomorrow, we’ve reached a new level of dissent in Iran, and the regime is more threatened than at any point since they came to power in 1979.”
On Russia, he said: “What Putin is doing now, I think his strategy for the next six months is to freeze the military conflict where Russia has performed very badly and to try and up the pressure on the political conflict, putting economic pressure on Ukraine itself by disabling its electricity generating infrastructure.
“He’s preying on the weaknesses of the European Union and the isolationist tendency in the United States to see if the resolve of the West will break.
“I don’t think Ukraine’s resolve will break; the question is whether ours breaks first. That’s what Putin is hoping for.”
