Donald Trump’s ex-national security advisor, John Bolton, said the former president “doesn’t have the brains” to be a dictator in a recent interview with French daily Le Figaro.
As questions arise about what a second Trump term would look like, Bolton, 75, not only disparaged Trump’s intellectual capacity, he also mocked the former president’s professional background, saying: “He’s a property developer, for God’s sake!”
He added: “Regarding the possibility of overthrowing the Republic, let’s be clear: Donald Trump is not Julius Caesar!” Bolton said.
Bolton is a veteran figure of the Republican right turned vociferous critic of his former boss.
The hawkish foreign-policy advisor, who has served four Republican presidencies, used to be a mainstay on Fox News. But after revelations from his memoir undercut a key part of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense, allies of Trump denounced Bolton.
Bolton cautioned that President Joe Biden was “making a mistake by threatening the country with an apocalypse if Trump comes back.”
Biden, along with his political …