Name: John R. Bolton
Born: November 20, 1948
Profession: Attorney
GW Bush Administration Position:
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Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
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Interim Permanent US Representative to the UN from August 2005 until December 2006 on a recess appointment
Donald Trump Administration Position:
- National Security Adviser, April 9, 2018 (his appointment was announced on March 22, 2018) – September 9, 2019
War crime charge(s):
- Crime against peace – planning and carrying out a war of aggression.
- One of the architects of the Iraq war.
- Claimed that Iraq had WMD.
- Led opposition to US participation in International Criminal Court.
Primary Associations:
- Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
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Other Associations:
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Washington, DC
- Project for the New American Century (PNAC), Washington, DC
- National Rifle Association, Fairfax, VA
- Council for National Policy, Fairfax, VA
- Institute of East-West Dynamics
- US Commission on International Religious Freedom
- Council for National Policy
More Information:
- View Bolton’s WikiPedia entry
- 6-22-09 Bush officials: Where are they now?
- 9-29-12 Romney surrogate slams Obama’s Libya response with homophobic slur
- 9-20-13 Their Way or Another Way?
- 5-7-15 Would you buy a new (actually recycled) war from this man?
- 1/26/19 Trump’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Pompeo, Bolton & Abrams
- 7/13/22 Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups
Note:
“There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is only the international community, which can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United States1.”
1In a 1994 Global Structures Convocation hosted by the World Federalist Association.