At a time when we have no Secretary of State (and the State Dept. has been largely gutted and thrown to the curb anyway), this is the (hand-picked) person who’s advising Trump on diplomacy and the dangers of the world.
From 2013 until last month, Bolton was chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a New York-based advocacy group that warns of a looming “jihadist takeover” of Europe leading to a “Great White Death.”
The group has published numerous stories and headlines on its website with similar themes. “Germany Confiscating Homes to Use for Migrants,” warned one from May 2017, about a single apartment rental property in Hamburg that had gone into temporary trusteeship. Another from February 2015 claimed the immigrants, for instance Somalis, in Sweden were turning that country into the “Rape Capital of the West.”
Of course, it’s perhaps no surprise if all that would be considered a bonus to the President, whose personal national security policy often seems in the same orbit as Gatestone’s rhetoric. It’s certainly made Gatestone a popular retweeting and amplifying target of Russian trolls.
…and has promised we’ll invade Iran by the end of 2018, so there is that