Neocon RINO John Bolton associated President-elect Donald Trump’s FBI Director pick Kash Patel to Soviet secret police chief, Lavrenty Beria. Vice President-elect JD Vance pushed back on the comparison, asserting that Bolton has ‘been wrong about everything’, making Patel ‘pretty awesome’.
“Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be his Lavrenty Beria. Fortunately, the FBI is not the NKVD. The Senate should reject this nomination 100-0,” Bolton said, according to Face the Nation moderator and CBS chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan in a social media post Sunday.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton compares Kash Patel, President-elect Trump's pick to head the FBI, to one of Stalin's feared secret police chiefs:
— Margaret Brennan (@margbrennan) December 1, 2024
"Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be his Lavrenty Beria. Fortunately, the FBI is not the NKVD. The Senate should…
Vance’s take on the matter was that if Bolton came out against Patel, Patel must be pretty good.
John Bolton has been wrong about everything so I guess Kash must be pretty awesome. https://t.co/V2wYNcqhmh
— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 1, 2024
Bolton, no stranger to political shenanigans, admitted in 2022 to planning attempted foreign coups.
“John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said on Tuesday that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries,” Reuters said in 2022. “Bolton made the remarks to CNN after the day’s congressional hearing into the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The panel’s lawmakers on Tuesday accused former President Donald Trump of inciting the violence in a last-ditch bid to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.”
Trump has previously criticized Bolton’s penchant for war, calling him a ‘nut-job’ and a ‘moron’. Bolton formerly severed as National Security Advisor to Trump before being fired from the position in 2019.
🇺🇸 TRUMP: BOLTON'S NUTTY WAR HAWK IMAGE HELPED ME NEGOTIATE WITH KIM & PUTIN
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 1, 2024
"Bolton was a real dope, always itching for war—like a boiler ready to explode.
But he helped me negotiate with Kim Jong-un and Putin.
They’d see him in the room, red-faced with that white mustache,… https://t.co/oPiIlsCxXg pic.twitter.com/fHaX5eo9Rg
Some have quipped that Bolton himself may have more in common with Soviet Dear Leader Joseph Stalin, as both sported a similar mustache.
Meanwhile, Bolton sports the signature “Stalin” moustache. It’s all Projection 🤡🤡🤡 https://t.co/ys1A0w2HYr pic.twitter.com/I5jK8NdPYk
— Vincent Chaos (@iCloud_VII) December 1, 2024
The mustache has been deeply ingrained in military history and has even been seen as a symbol of the armed forces.