John Bolton Floats 2024 Presidential Run To Keep Trump From Winning GOP Nomination

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John Bolton, former national security adviser to Donald J. Trump and longtime foreign policy hawk, said Monday he was prepared to jump into the 2024 presidential contest if he did not see enough pushback within the Republican Party to Trump’s recent call to scrap the U.S. Constitution.

Speaking on NBC’s “Meet The Press Now,” Bolton said he was worried by Trump’s post on his social media platform over the weekend in which the losing candidate in the 2020 election said he should be reinstalled as president or get a do-over election because he felt there was fraud.

“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump posted. He reposted the statement later in the day.

The U.S. Constitution contains no provisions for reinstalling a losing presidential incumbent in the White House or allowing a do-over of the quadrennial general election, and experts have said there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

“I think to be a presidential candidate, you can’t simply say, ‘I support the Constitution.’ You have to say, ‘I would oppose people who would undercut it,’” Bolton told NBC News’ Kristen Welker.

He then approvingly invoked the since-disbanded House Un-American Activities Committee, seen by many historians as the epicenter of anti-Communist Red Scare paranoia following World War II and a precursor to Sen. Joe McCarthy’s demagogic rise in the early 1950s.

“You know, we used to have a thing in the House of Representatives called the House Un-American Activities Committee. I think when you challenge the Constitution itself the way Trump has done, that is un-American.”

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[anonymoose]

He takes up where McCain left off. An excuse for any war.