Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Bolton Melts in Trump’s Foreign-Policy Tinderbox

A third national security adviser goes up in flames in an administration addicted to chaos.

September 10, 2019 at 7:48 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

There he goes (again).
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was asked on Tuesday whether the foreign policy process of President Donald Trump’s administration is a mess after John Bolton was fired (or resigned; you rarely really know with this crowd) as national security adviser.

Well, of course it’s a mess. Not just foreign policy of course; there’s no rhyme or reason to any policy process in the current White House, as anyone who has been paying attention all year, and especially over the last six weeks or so, can plainly see.