John Bolton, who served as nationwide safety adviser to Donald Trump, mentioned he’s “fairly assured” that allegations his former boss mishandled categorized paperwork are true as a result of he’s witnessed it firsthand.
“I believe he was sort of a collector of issues that he thought had been of curiosity to him for some cause or one other ― clippings, mementos, categorized paperwork,” Bolton advised MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday. “And it was very disturbing.”
Trump final week was indicted on 37 counts within the categorized paperwork scandal.
Bolton mentioned he noticed a “sample” during which Trump preferred to maintain issues from intelligence briefings and different conferences.
“It turned the observe simply to be sure that we bought them again in as many instances as we might,” he mentioned. “Clearly, we failed in lots of instances.”
He cited an instance of Trump tweeting data on Iran that had come from a doc he stored from an intelligence briefing.
“There’s totally no excuse for that. There’s no conceivable cause for that, besides it made him really feel good to have the ability to do it,” he mentioned. “That’s one instance, but it surely’s typical of the mindset, in my opinion.”
Bolton known as the allegations “severe” as a result of they place delicate data in danger “making it extra possible {that a} international adversary might get their arms on it.”
“That’s why the prison statutes are written the way in which they’re, for very prudent causes,” Bolton mentioned.
Psaki requested Bolton if he would help Trump in 2024 ought to he win the nomination.
Bolton mentioned he voted for Trump in 2016, however didn’t in 2020, as a substitute writing within the identify of a conservative Republican in Maryland, the place he votes.
He mentioned he would do the identical in 2024.
See his full dialog with Psaki beneath:
