Mr. Trump, a television connoisseur and former reality star, regularly turns to TV personalities as an informal sounding board. Mr. Bolton’s hard-line on-air presence has long pleased Mr. Trump. “He’s, you know, a tough cookie,” Mr. Trump, then a presidential candidate, told NBC News in 2015, naming Mr. Bolton as one of his sources for national security advice. “Knows what he’s talking about.”Since Mr. Trump took office, Mr. Bolton has used his Fox News platform to praise the president and castigate his critics. (On Thursday, Fox News said Mr. Bolton would no longer be a paid contributor to the network.)

Source: New York Times March 23, 2018 00:45 UTC