Bolton’s test: Massaging Trump tweets into foreign policy 0 SHARES Share it! The explanation, senior White House officials said, is the behind-the-scenes effort by Bolton. “Frankly, what I have said in private now is behind me,” Bolton told Fox News last year just after joining the White House. White House aides cast Bolton’s role as merely “elucidating” or “clarifying” the president’s initial order. Some in the White House were shocked that the NSC took hours to explain Trump’s Syria decision, chalking it up to Bolton’s objection to the policy.

Source: Manila Bulletin January 21, 2019 06:33 UTC