John Bolton ripped Donald Trump for being played by Vladimir Putin in the hours before FBI agents raided his home on Friday morning.
The president’s ex-national security adviser turned nemesis appeared on CNN on Thursday night to discuss a Truth Social post in which Trump seemed to urge Ukraine to go on the offensive against Russia.
During the interview, Bolton said he believed the Russian president had only met with Trump in Alaska this month to “roll him back” from threats of sanctions, “which I think he did.”
The 76-year-old GOP hawk added that a lack of communication about what was discussed behind closed doors had caused “confusion.”
Bolton told The Source guest host Brianna Keilar: “Frankly, the confusion over the past two and a half weeks, in substantial part, is due to the adm