Bolton: Trump used the Republican Party as a tool John Bolton, the former national security adviser of the White House, announced on Tuesday in an interview with MS New: Trump does not have clear strategic goals in the Persian Gulf, and this is the same problem that existed from the beginning in his way of promoting the war (against Iran). The former White House national security adviser then added: He doesn't know what he wants. Trump has used the party for his own ends, but intellectually, I don't think he's a Republican. In my opinion, Trump's entire tariff policy contradicts the decades-old founding principles of the Republican Party.

Bolton: Trump used the Republican Party as a tool John Bolton, the former national security adviser of the White House, announced on Tuesday in an interview with MS New: Trump does not have clear strategic goals in the Persian Gulf, and this is the same problem that existed from the beginning in his way of promoting the war (against Iran). The former White House national security adviser then added: He doesn't know what he wants. Trump has used the party for his own ends, but intellectually, I don't think he's a Republican. In my opinion, Trump's entire tariff policy contradicts the decades-old founding principles of the Republican Party.