TRUMP: John Bolton and Dick Cheney convinced George Bush to blow up the Middle East. We got nothing out of it except a lot of death.
REPORTER: "Why did you remove John Bolton's security clearance, sir?"
TRUMP: "Because I think that was enough time. You take a job. You want to do a job. We're not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives. Why should we?
I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well because every time people saw me come into a meeting with John Bolton standing behind me, they thought that he'd attack them because he was a warmonger.
He's the one that got us involved, along with Cheney and a couple of others, convinced Bush, which was a terrible decision, to blow up the Middle East. We blew up the Middle East, and we left.
We got nothing out of it except a lot of death. We killed a lot of people, and John Bolton was one of those guys, a stupid guy."
