EXCLUSIVE: John Bolton on Trump's performance, the 2020 election, foreign interference, and COVID-19

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• In a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider on Monday, former national security adviser John Bolton discussed the 2020 election, President Donald Trump's performance, foreign interference, and the coronavirus pandemic.
• Bolton said that if people thought about resigning "every time something objectionable happened" in the Trump White House, "you'd last about three or four hours in the job."
• On Trump's suggestion to delay the November general election, Bolton said, "It's completely beyond any reasonable consideration to delay the election. I found it very troubling that the president would even talk about it."
• The former national security adviser also skewered the Trump administration's pandemic response and said he would give the president an "F" on his handling of the crisis.
• "Even today, we do not have a comprehensive strategy, we don't have clear objectives, we're not really on top of this, and I think that's fairly typical of the way Trump handles most aspects of, certainly, the national security field," Bolton said.
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Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that if people thought about resigning "every time something objectionable happened" in the Trump White House, "you'd last about three or four hours in the job."

In an exclusive interview with Business Insider, Bolton said he considered resigning several times during the last few months of his tenure as national security adviser. President Donald Trump said he ousted Bolton in September 2019 because he "disagreed strongly" with many of Bolton's decisions. But Bolton pushed back on Trump's statement, saying at the time, "Let's be clear, I resigned."

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