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John Bolton lobs veiled threat, says Hegseth should quit for ‘own safety’s sake’

April 30, 2025 | | Print Article

Disgraced former National Security Adviser John Bolton is a fixture in the corrupt mainstream media, and his latest remarks about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sounded a lot like a veiled threat.

The knuckle-dragging neocon once again showed up on CNN to call for Hegseth’s resignation amid a coordinated Democrat-media smear campaign that has failed to catch fire with the American people, let alone make a persuasive case for him to be fired based on anonymously sourced innuendo and backbiting by fired Pentagon staffers.

On Tuesday’s edition of “Situation Room,” Bolton was asked by host Pamela Brown, “Do you believe Hegseth should still be on the job?” He replied with a cryptic suggestion that if the Defense Secretary didn’t step down, something very bad could happen to him.

“No. I think he should resign for his own safety’s sake if nothing else,” Bolton answered. “This is a critical time for the American military.”

“We understand the Trump administration will rightly propose enormous budget increases for defense. We need it. We need a secretary who can get the job done, not somebody who spends his time on Signal chat groups,” the former Bush administration official added, flogging the corpse of the “Signalgate” horse that was already dead before it left the barn.

“Just as someone who is a national security expert, the fact that it was happening on his personal cell phone, how much does that concern you, knowing that foreign adversaries often target top-level national security officials to get into their phones and put in spyware?” Brown asked, trying to fan the dying embers of the hoax.

“Yeah, the… I almost never used my personal phone when I was a national security adviser. I mean, the breaches of security at risk in this conduct are enormous. I think that’s one reason why he shouldn’t be in the job,” Bolton replied.

Bolton’s hoax-mongering is par for the course, the implied threat to one of the government’s top officials isn’t, and X users suggested that the feds should be paying attention to his words.

Since he was fired by Trump during his first term, Bolton has spent years attacking his former boss who has frequently noted that the ex-official is a warmongering cretin who can’t hide his incompetence behind a walrus mustache.

“I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well because every time people saw me come into a meeting with John Bolton standing behind me, they thought that he’d attack them because he was a warmonger,” Trump said of Bolton after stripping his security clearance when he returned to office.

“I found John Bolton to be one of the dumbest people in Government but, I am proud to say, I used him well,” Trump also said of Bolton in a January 2023 post to Truth Social. “A total & unhinged WARMONGER, the red faced ‘boiler ready to explode’ was one of those very stupid voices that got us into the Middle East quicksand, Seven Trillion Dollars, & Millions of deaths later, NOTHING.”

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