Former National Security Adviser John Bolton has revealed that President Trump was keen on granting persecuted, white South African farmers “asylum and citizenship” in a 2019 meeting, while Bolton was trying to convince the President to start a new war in the Middle East. The buried comments come from Bolton’s new book describing a National Security Council meeting in response to Iran striking two pumping stations on a Saudi oil pipeline in May 2019: When Dunford tried to get more specific on what we might do and when in response to an Iranian attack, Trump said the Gulf Arabs could pay.
