John Bolton, former National Security Adviser to Donald Trump, declared on Wednesday that he placed a write-in vote for Dick Cheney, George W. Bush’s warmongering vice president, in the 2020 election. Bolton plans to vote for Cheney again this year.
Cheney, Bolton told CNN, is a “principled Reaganite conservative.”
“Age is no longer a factor in American presidential politics, so his age doesn’t disqualify him,” Bolton said of the 83-year-old Never Trumper, best known as one of the chief architects of the Iraq War.
“I think he’d do an immensely better job than either Trump or Biden,” Bolton added.
On Liz Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president who collaborated with the Democrats on the January 6 Committee, Bolton said he likes her “a lot,” and “maybe someday she’ll get my write-in vote too.”
Like Cheney, Bolton is an inveterate war hawk, lobbying for the invasion of Iraq, an invasion of Iran, strikes on North Korea, and ongoing involvement in Afghanistan, among other military interventions.
As a young man, the 75-year-old supported the Vietnam War — although he avoided serving in it himself, admitting he “had no desire to die in a southeast Asian rice paddy.”
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