Two Pieces
When the smoke cleared – after Jesse Helms’ second campaign – we’d raised more money than anyone had ever raised in a Senate election; at the start of that campaign staring at reams of new election laws, confounded, I’d called Stan Evans head of the American Conservative Union.
“I’m going to need a lawyer.”
Stan said one name: John Bolton.
I walked into a Washington office expecting to meet a grey-haired lawyer, sat down facing a slender young man with reddish-brown hair; most lawyers meander talking in circles – not beating around the bush John shot back clear concise answers. Both now white-haired we’ve been friends almost five decades.
In 1980, running for president, in the primary Reagan lost Iowa, came back to win New Hampshire, but his campaign was in a ditch, dead broke – John told me, “You ought to do an independent campaign to help Reagan.”
I asked puzzled, “What’s an independent campaign?”
After Reagan won John went to work for Reagan, then George H.W. Bush, working on foreign policy watched the Berlin Wall fall, the Soviet Union collapse; working with George W. Bush after 9/11, facing terrorist threats, served as Ambassador to the United Nations. Trump asked him to be his National Security Advisor – John urged Trump to get tough on Iran, made the Ayatollah mad.
Trump set out to make a deal with Taliban.
The same straight-talking man he’d been the day I met him, John told Trump making deals with terrorists was wrong – he and Trump parted ways. That deal was one reason John left the Trump White House.
During the Iraq war Qasem Soleimani’s Quds Force killed American soldiers – striking back our army killed Soleimani with a drone. After Biden was elected, out for revenge an Iranian agent set out to hire an assassin for $300,000 to kill John. Iran also set out to kill Mike Pompeo.
No friend of either John or Pompeo, Biden told the Secret Service to guard both. The night Trump took office he took away the Secret Service protection for John, Pompeo, and two other men he didn’t like, said on TV he felt no sense of responsibility if any of the four men were harmed.
Does that make sense?
In one breath Trump says he’s giving us a new ‘Golden Age’ – in the next breath tells the Secret Service not to protect two Americans Iran set out to kill. How do you fit those two pieces together?
*****
Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.
Two Pieces
When the smoke cleared – after Jesse Helms’ second campaign – we’d raised more money than anyone had ever raised in a Senate election; at the start of that campaign staring at reams of new election laws, confounded, I’d called Stan Evans head of the American Conservative Union.
“I’m going to need a lawyer.”
Stan said one name: John Bolton.
I walked into a Washington office expecting to meet a grey-haired lawyer, sat down facing a slender young man with reddish-brown hair; most lawyers meander talking in circles – not beating around the bush John shot back clear concise answers. Both now white-haired we’ve been friends almost five decades.
In 1980, running for president, in the primary Reagan lost Iowa, came back to win New Hampshire, but his campaign was in a ditch, dead broke – John told me, “You ought to do an independent campaign to help Reagan.”
I asked puzzled, “What’s an independent campaign?”
After Reagan won John went to work for Reagan, then George H.W. Bush, working on foreign policy watched the Berlin Wall fall, the Soviet Union collapse; working with George W. Bush after 9/11, facing terrorist threats, served as Ambassador to the United Nations. Trump asked him to be his National Security Advisor – John urged Trump to get tough on Iran, made the Ayatollah mad.
Trump set out to make a deal with Taliban.
The same straight-talking man he’d been the day I met him, John told Trump making deals with terrorists was wrong – he and Trump parted ways. That deal was one reason John left the Trump White House.
During the Iraq war Qasem Soleimani’s Quds Force killed American soldiers – striking back our army killed Soleimani with a drone. After Biden was elected, out for revenge an Iranian agent set out to hire an assassin for $300,000 to kill John. Iran also set out to kill Mike Pompeo.
No friend of either John or Pompeo, Biden told the Secret Service to guard both. The night Trump took office he took away the Secret Service protection for John, Pompeo, and two other men he didn’t like, said on TV he felt no sense of responsibility if any of the four men were harmed.
Does that make sense?
In one breath Trump says he’s giving us a new ‘Golden Age’ – in the next breath tells the Secret Service not to protect two Americans Iran set out to kill. How do you fit those two pieces together?
*****
Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.