Former national security advisor John Bolton told CNBC that President Trump’s “failure to think strategically worsened the impact of the coronavirus in the United States, and warned that his former boss’s decisions could actually get worse if the president is re-elected this fall.”
Said Bolton: “I’m actually worried that the second term might be worse than the first term. In many cases, the president came to decisions in the national security space that I agreed with. But he did it not because of the merits of the argument in favor of a particular policy, but because of the fear of the political blowback he would get domestically if he went in a different direction.”
He added that if Trump is re-elected, “that political guardrail is, if it’s not eliminated entirely, it’s certainly minimized.”