Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton on Sunday trashed the Obama administration's decision to allow passage of a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction, saying it was a bad idea designed to hurt his successor and warning there may be more where that came from. Bolton said the decision must be fought aggressively.
Abstaining from last month's vote meant Obama, in his final 30 days in office, ushered in a drastic shift in U.S. foreign policy that contradicts the policy views of his successor, Republican Donald Trump. That move, Bolton said, "was vindictive."
"This is intended to try and box [Trump] in," Bolton said on John Catsimatidis' radio show "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM in New York, before expressing his concern that Obama and the U.N. aren't finished just yet.
"I'm just worried that more is coming as well but this resolution itself is bad enough," Bolton said.
Though Obama leaves office in a few weeks, he has repeatedly indicated plans to remain an active source of resistance to any drastic reversals to the "progress" he made during his eight years in the White House.
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04.27.2024