John Bolton described Rudy Giuliani as a ‘hand grenade’ that would ‘blow everybody up’
Date: Oct 15 2019
- Former national security adviser John Bolton was so alarmed by Rudy Giuliani’s pressure campaign on Ukraine for dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden that he directed a top aide to tell White House lawyers he wasn’t involved, The New York Times reported.
- Bolton’s directive came after he got into a heated exchange with Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union who was part of Giuliani’s “shadow foreign policy” with respect to Ukraine.
- “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton instructed his aide, Fiona Hill, to tell White House lawyers, according to Hill’s testimony cited by The Times.
- The Times also reported that Bolton described Giuliani as a “hand grenade” that would “blow everybody up.”
John Bolton, the former national security adviser, was so alarmed by Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to pressure Ukraine for dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden that he told his top aide to inform White House lawyers he wasn’t part of it, The New York Times reported.
