CNN previously reported that Donald Trump plans to usurp the US Republican Party’s National Committee and lay the groundwork for an attempt to become president again
Former US presidential national security aide John Bolton believes Republican Donald Trump will not risk a run for the highest office of state in 2024. Bolton expressed this opinion on Saturday on CNN.
“I don’t believe he will actually run again [for president of the United States]”, – he noted, responding to a related question. In Bolton’s view, American politics is based on facts and public opinion tends to change.
“I believe Donald Trump violates the basic principle of conservatism. Involvement in politics is dictated by its principles, not by personalities and certainly not by a cult of personality. It is time to move on. Donald Trump apparently imagines himself to be the next Grover Cleveland. I don’t think he’s going to succeed”, – the former national security aide concluded.
CNN had earlier reported that Trump was mulling steps to prepare for the 2024 presidential election, planning to usurp the US Republican Party National Committee and lay the groundwork for an attempt to become president again. Trump will be 78 years old at the time. There is a precedent for a US president who could not get re-elected but won the election four years later in American history. Democrat Grover Cleveland lost the 1888 election to Republican Benjamin Harrison, but beat him in the 1892 election, becoming the only US president in history with two ordinal numbers – 22nd and 24th.
Bolton’s book The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir came out in the summer. It contains harsh criticism of Trump. US authorities claim that Bolton violated the non-disclosure of state secrets obligations he assumed when he became an aide to the president. Trump announced Bolton’s appointment to the post in March 2018 and sent him to resign 18 months later.