John Bolton Warns Republicans To Take Trump's New Threat Against Cheney Seriously
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Donald Trump’s former national security adviser says Trump absolutely wants revenge against those who tried to hold him accountable after Jan. 6, 2021.
WASHINGTON — One of Donald Trump’s top White House advisers in his first term warned Thursday that the former and soon-to-be president’s threats against onetime congresswoman Liz Cheney and others who tried to hold him accountable for his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, need to be taken seriously.
“This is part of the retribution campaign that he signaled for quite some time,” said John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser from spring 2018 through late summer 2019. “The important thing is that people understand that he’s carrying through on what he said he was going to do.”
Cheney, of Wyoming, was the highest-ranking congressional Republican to continue criticizing Trump for his coup attempt culminating in an attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters nearly four years ago. She lost her leadership position in May 2021, but then served as vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. A Trump-backed Republican ousted her from her House seat in the 2022 midterm elections.
Trump has at times claimed that he would fulfill his many promises of seeking “retribution” against his political opponents simply by completing a successful second term. On Wednesday, however, he offered what appeared to be a new threat targeting Cheney — “Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble” — and then paraphrased a House ally who’d said that “numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney ... and these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
“My message to Republicans is that you have to take what Trump says on repeated occasions seriously. That’s what he wants to do,” Bolton told HuffPost. “He may not do it. He may be distracted from it, but don’t live in the bubble that it’s just talk and you can dismiss it.”
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