WASHINGTON — John Bolton, who President Donald Trump said on Thursday will replace H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser on April 9, is a polarizing pick, even by Trump administration standards. Bolton has had Trump’s ear, both as an informal adviser and as a commentator on Fox News, for a while. Here is a brief history of the new national security adviser’s career in foreign policy:Bolton fiercely advocated for the Iraq War and promoted the false justification for it. “I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam [Hussein] was correct,” he told the Washington Examiner in 2015.

Source: Huffington Post March 22, 2018 22:43 UTC