John Bolton ‘Disappointed’ by Haley’s Trump Endorsement: ‘I Don’t Know What Nikki’s Calculations Are’

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton expressed disappointment on Wednesday over Nikki Haley’s endorsement of the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump.

After Haley announced on Wednesday that she would be voting for Trump against President Joe Biden, just months after she described the former president as “disgusting” and “unhinged,” Bolton criticized her decision during an appearance on CNN’s The Situation Room.

“I’m disappointed,” Bolton told host Wolf Blitzer. “I think she’s obviously made a political calculation that it’s in her interests to support Donald Trump.”

He continued:

I am disappointed, but a lot of Republicans are making the same calculation because the performance of the Biden administration has been so appalling, and I believe, you know, if Donald Trump wins the election, on election night his victory speech should start off by thanking Joe Biden and the Democratic Party for nominating Biden against him.

Asked who he would be voting for instead of Trump in November, Bolton reiterated that he would be writing in former Vice President Dick Cheney, who he also wrote in in 2020.

“I don’t think Biden or Trump are fit to be president and I’m not gonna ruin my vote by voting for somebody who’s not competent to hold the job,” Bolton said.

During the interview, Bolton also insinuated that Haley was trying to become Trump’s running mate.

“I noticed that in her remarks, at least as reported in the press, she said that she wanted to support a president who would back America’s allies and hold its enemies accountable, and that’s not Donald Trump,” argued Bolton:

It’s not his record in office and I am very much afraid that would not be his performance if he did get a second term. I don’t know what Nikki’s calculations are. I hope she’s not thinking of being his vice president because I think for Trump the two questions that are most important in interviewing prospective vice presidents are, number one, “Do you think the 2020 election was stolen?” and number two, “If I asked you to do something akin to what I asked Mike Pence to do on January 6, would you do it?” and anybody who answers “yes” to either one of those questions I think is disqualified to be vice president. But I think if she’s interested in that nomination, she’s gonna have to answer affirmatively.

During a discussion at the Hudson Institute on Wednesday, Haley told the audience that while Trump had “not been perfect,” a point she made “clear many, many times,” Biden’s administration had “been a catastrophe.”

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