#John Bolton says Trump is a danger to national security

Former White House national security adviser John Bolton said President Trump is so blinded by his political ambitions and hobbled by incompetence that he jeopardizes national security.

“The biggest fear I have is that his policymaking is so incoherent, so unfocused, so unstructured, so wrapped around his own personal political fortunes, that mistakes are being made that will have grave consequences for the national security of the United States,” Bolton told ABC News in an interview in advance of publication of his White House tell-all on Tuesday.

Bolton, who served in the administration for 17 months, said he hopes voters limit Trump to one term.

“We can get over one term. I have absolute confidence — even if it’s not the miracle of a conservative Republican being elected in November. Two terms, I’m more troubled about,” he said.

He said he will not vote for Trump nor former Vice President Joe Biden in November, saying he will write in the name of a conservative Republican.

He also accuses House Democrats of committing “impeachment malpractice” by limiting their investigation into Trump’s call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Bolton, who had an insider’s view of the Trump administration, has been criticized for not appearing before the House committee investigating Trump’s actions in Ukraine.

But Bolton said his testimony wouldn’t have made a difference because the Democrats had an agenda.

“Minds were made up on Capitol Hill. And my feeling was in the midst of all the chaos that had been created, this would have come and gone, and nobody would have paid any attention to it,” he told ABC News.

“My view is when you take the extraordinary step of removing a president from office, you have to do it in a serious way. The only way to win an impeachment would have been to get Republicans to go along. And the Democrats abandoned that idea almost before they got started,” Bolton, who left the White House last September, continued.

The House never followed through with its subpoena for Bolton after resistance from the White House, and the Senate never called him as a witness in its impeachment trial, which acquitted Trump.

In light of the new bombshell revelations by Bolton, Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said he would meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about whether Bolton should be subpoenaed again.

Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that he will read the memoir and he and leading Democrats will make a determination.

“We will look at what allegations like those involving Turkey and other countries, particularly involving China, need to be fleshed out and exposed to the light of day. And then we’ll make our decisions,” Schiff said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

But Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, appeared not interested in Bolton’s testimony.

“No, we’re not interested in Bolton’s testimony,” the New York Democrat said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” later acknowledging that “we may, but we’ll see about that.”