{"id":2379734,"date":"2024-12-13T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-boltons-plea-to-block-kash-patels-confirmation-exposes-the-swamps-desperation\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T10:07:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:07:26","slug":"john-boltons-plea-to-block-kash-patels-confirmation-exposes-the-swamps-desperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-boltons-plea-to-block-kash-patels-confirmation-exposes-the-swamps-desperation\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton&#8217;s Plea to Block Kash Patel&#8217;s Confirmation Exposes the Swamp&#8217;s Desperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-boltons-plea-to-block-kash-patels-confirmation-exposes-the-swamps-desperation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2379734&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh article discusses John Bolton&#8217;s criticism of Kash Patel,\u2063 a nominee\u2063 for \u200dFBI director during the Trump management. Bolton positions himself \u200bas a political outsider, expressing disdain for Patel&#8217;s qualifications and alleged loyalty to Trump over the Constitution. He \u200cclaims Patel lacks \u2063the necessary credentials and has inflated his resume, suggesting that his personal ambitions overshadow his commitment to \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-got-it-newsmax-reporter-emerald-robinson-national-security-source-confirms-a-piece-of-hardware-has-been-secured-in-germany\/\" title=\"We Got It! - Newsmax Reporter Emerald Robinson: National Security Source Confirms &quot;A Piece of Hardware Has Been Secured&quot; in Germany\">national security<\/a>.Bolton urges the Senate\u200d to\u200c reject Patel&#8217;s nomination \u2064unanimously, which he\u2063 believes would\u2062 reflect poorly on its members if they chose otherwise. The piece highlights Bolton&#8217;s own controversial past and conflicts of interest while questioning his credibility in criticizing Patel. Ultimately,it touches on \u2064broader themes\u200c of loyalty and \u200caccountability in Washington politics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>There are certain blacklists it&rsquo;s probably better to be on than to be left off of &mdash; and one of them is definitely John Bolton&rsquo;s.<\/p>\n<p>If there are swampier Beltway swamp creatures than the Bush 43 and Trump official &mdash; who left both administrations under what can best be described as inauspicious terms &mdash; it&rsquo;d be hard to find one. Of the 194 other recognized countries that aren&rsquo;t the United States in this world, there are 194 that John Bolton feels it&rsquo;s Washington&rsquo;s job to meddle in, and usually with unsurprisingly bad results.<\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s also not particularly great at home, where he became a professional NeverTrumper after this worldview clashed with the president&rsquo;s and he left the Trump 45 administration to become one of those air-quotes &ldquo;Republicans&rdquo; news outlets invite on to discuss the perfidies of not just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/donald-trump-beats-kamala-harris-win-prestigious-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> but any Washington outsider having a say in D.C. circles.<\/p>\n<p>So, when he said that Trump&rsquo;s FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-pick-lead-fbi-no-friend-agency-brutal-plans-day-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">should be voted down<\/a> 100-0 by the Senate, that was practically an endorsement to these ears. It was even more so to the eyes when Bolton decided to take to the pages of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/kash-patel-doesnt-belong-at-the-fbi-cabinet-nominee-5ef655eb?mod=opinion_lead_pos5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> on Tuesday to declare: &ldquo;Kash Patel Doesn&rsquo;t Belong at the FBI.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Patel, who previously worked for House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Devin Nunes before entering the White House as a member of the National Security Council, has an extensive background in counterterrorism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/doj-inspector-general-releases-jan-6-bombshell-dozens-fbi-confidential-human-sources-crowd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Department<\/a> legal work.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>However, Bolton&rsquo;s problem is that, according to the column, he displays &ldquo;personal fealty&rdquo; to Trump, &ldquo;not loyalty to the Constitution.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Strike the second part of that thought, and you begin to see the problem: John Bolton&rsquo;s &ldquo;personal fealty&rdquo; has always been to himself and his ideology, and he has an innate suspicion of anyone who doesn&rsquo;t  it.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton has already used the oldest trick in the book, which is the &ldquo;Trumper guy is authoritarian&rdquo; slur; Bolton already compared him to a Soviet secret police officer and said, &ldquo;The Senate should reject this nomination 100-0.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That didn&rsquo;t work, so he expounded on this thought at greater length with a bit less feverous language &mdash; still to virtually no great effect.<\/p>\n<p>First, Bolton talked about his time with Patel at the NSC, from which we are supposed to assume that he&rsquo;s talking from a place of dispassionate employee evaluation and not ideological fervor. Unsurprisingly, it doesn&rsquo;t convince.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Rep. Devin Nunes pushed Mr. Patel for the National Security Council staff after Republicans lost the House in 2018. Notwithstanding Mr. Patel&rsquo;s lack of policy credentials, the president ordered him hired,&rdquo; Bolton said, saying that Patel held two roles within the NSC.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In neither case was he in charge of a directorate during my tenure as <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">national security adviser<\/a> or thereafter, as he contends in his memoir and elsewhere. He reported to senior directors in both cases and had defined responsibilities,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;His puffery was characteristic of the r&eacute;sum&eacute; inflation we had detected when Mr. Trump pressed him on us. We found he had exaggerated his role in cases he worked on as a Justice Department lawyer before joining Mr. Nunes&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-republicans-call-on-biden-administration-to-act-swiftly-on-ethiopia-crisis\/\" title=\"Congressional Republicans Call on Biden Administration to Act Swiftly on Ethiopia Crisis\">committee staff<\/a>. Given the sensitivity of the NSC&rsquo;s responsibilities, problems of credibility or reliability would ordinarily disqualify any job applicant.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Now, just to be clear, our arguments against Patel so far are 1) no loyalty to the Constitution or the law and 2) &ldquo;puffery.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Consider that this is coming from John Bolton, a man who &mdash; despite being an enemy of Donald Trump &mdash; said Jan. 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-enemy-jan-6-no-coup-know-planned-coups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">didn&rsquo;t equal a coup<\/a> because &ldquo;as somebody who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beastmode-bolton-schools-cnn-host-on-the-art-of-coups-detat\/\" title=\"BEASTMODE: Bolton Schools CNN Host on the Art of Coups d\u2019\u00c9tat\">helped plan coups<\/a> d&rsquo;&eacute;tat, not here, but, you know, other places, it takes a lot of work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jake Tapper: &ldquo;One doesn&rsquo;t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>John Bolton: &ldquo;I disagree with that. As somebody who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-bolton-casually-admits-hes-planned-coups-before\/\" title=\"John Bolton Casually Admits He\u2019s Planned Coups Before\">helped plan coup<\/a> d&rsquo;etat, not here, but other places, it takes a lot of work.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/REyqh3KtHi\">pic.twitter.com\/REyqh3KtHi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinbaragona\/status\/1546955197045415936?\">July 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I call for summary judgement, dear reader.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton later said that, a month before he resigned, he was called into a meeting in the Oval Office with the president and two other White House officials, the subject of which involved giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/msnbc-panel-frets-fbi-abuse-surveillance-powers-kash-patel-already-happening-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patel<\/a> a role as an &ldquo;administration enforcer of presidential loyalty.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The other two &ldquo;strongly objected to any such role, whether in the NSC or the counsel&rsquo;s office, and the issue disappeared. I resigned in September 2019.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Other stories from Bolton&rsquo;s piece involve similar swamp creatures from the Trump 45 years, including Fiona Hill and Olivia Troye, none of which are particularly damnable. He also puts snippets of speech from Patel in the worst possible light, glossing over context.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mr. Patel has frequently called for investigations of journalists, comments he has since tried to walk back. He has been accused of seeking to declassify sensitive information for political rather than legitimate national-security reasons,&rdquo; Bolton said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During Mr. Trump&rsquo;s first term, both Attorney General William Barr and Central Intelligence Agency Director Gina Haspel threatened to resign if Mr. Patel was forced on them as deputy FBI or CIA director, respectively.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is coming from Mr. &ldquo;That Wasn&rsquo;t a Coup, And I Know Because I Planned Coups&rdquo; guy. Do draw your own conclusions about where John Bolton&rsquo;s idea of where the reach of unelected Washington bureaucrats extends. I assure you, it&rsquo;s far beyond a few tossed-off comments about investigating journalists.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I regret I didn&rsquo;t fully discern Mr. Patel&rsquo;s threat immediately,&rdquo; Bolton concluded. &ldquo;But we are now all fairly warned. Senators won&rsquo;t escape history&rsquo;s judgment if they vote to confirm him.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He is right on that last part. They&rsquo;re voting to drain the swampiest part of the officialdom swamp &mdash; an environment that John Bolton has called home for most of his professional political life. That&rsquo;s why he&rsquo;s on the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-anti-trump-john-bolton-tells-cnn-wont-vote-trump-biden-reveals-name-voted-2020-wholl-pick-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national security advisor&rsquo;s blacklist<\/a>. And that&rsquo;s also why it&rsquo;s a great place to be &mdash; and proof Trump&rsquo;s plan is working.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Finding swampier figures in Washington than the Bush 43 and Trump official, who departed both administrations under dubious circumstances, would be a challenge. Among the 194 countries outside the U.S., Bolton believes it&#8217;s America&#8217;s duty to interfere in all of them, often with predictably negative outcomes. He has also struggled domestically, becoming a prominent NeverTrumper after his views clashed with those of President Trump, leading him to criticize not just Trump but any outsider attempting to influence D.C. When he stated that Trump&#8217;s FBI director nominee Kash Patel should receive a unanimous Senate rejection, it almost sounded like an endorsement. This sentiment was reinforced when Bolton wrote in The Wall Street Journal that &#8220;Kash Patel Doesn\u2019t Belong at the FBI.&#8221; Patel has a solid background in counterterrorism and legal work but Bolton argues he shows &#8220;personal fealty&#8221; to Trump rather than loyalty to the Constitution. This raises questions about Bolton&#8217;s own motivations since his allegiance has always been primarily towards himself and his ideology while being suspicious of anyone who doesn&#8217;t share it.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton previously labeled Patel as authoritarian and compared him to Soviet secret police officers; however, this tactic didn&#8217;t yield results so he elaborated further without much impact. He recounted their time together at the National Security Council (NSC), suggesting an objective evaluation rather than ideological bias\u2014though this was unconvincing. He criticized Patel for lacking policy credentials despite being hired by Trump due to Nunes&#8217; push for him on NSC staff after Republicans lost control of Congress in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton\u2019s arguments against Patel boil down to claims of disloyalty and exaggeration regarding his qualifications\u2014coming from someone who once downplayed January 6th as not constituting a coup because planning coups requires significant effort based on his experience elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, while Bolton expressed regret for not recognizing Patel&#8217;s threat sooner and warned senators against confirming him\u2014he himself represents much of what he criticizes within Washington\u2019s political landscape\u2014a place where he&#8217;s spent most of his career<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2379735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/John-Bolton.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16629,44998,44864,46732,11009],"class_list":["post-2379734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-confirmation","tag-john-bolton","tag-kash-patel","tag-political-desperation","tag-swamp"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/John-Bolton.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379738,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379734\/revisions\/2379738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}