Donald Trump's National Security Advisor John
Bolton is mad as hell, but this time it's
not because he's not allowed to go start a
war for absolutely no reason in the Middle
East.
It's because of all of these watchdog agencies,
and these inspector generals, and all of these
ethics laws in place that are making his life
in D.C. just absolutely no fun at all.
In a speech earlier this week to the Hamilton
Society, John Bolton actually attacked ethics
laws in Washington, D.C. from members of the
Trump Administration, or any administration,
saying that they were making it too hard to
get jobs done.
You know, because you have to follow ethics
laws, you're unable to actually do your job,
according to John Bolton.
Here's his actual quote.
This is what he said: "Things have gotten
more bureaucratic, harder to get things done.
If you were designing a system to discourage
people from coming into government, you would
do it this way.
That risks building up a priestly class.
It's really depressing to see."
It's depressing that these ethics laws are
keeping people that Bolton wants in government
out of government jobs.
Here's an idea, Bolton.
Maybe make some friends who aren't constantly
violating ethics laws.
Maybe go out there and meet some decent human
beings for a change instead of the criminals
you've been palling around with since you
came to D.C. in the 1980s.
We all know your history.
We know the history of the Project for a New
American Century, but once you started getting
a little heat on that, you disbanded it and
just formed it under a new name.
We know what you're all about.
You're all about creating war, creating conflict,
and profiting off of it.
You are so filled with hate that you don't
care who you go overseas and bomb.
You don't care if it hits civilians.
You just want to see death, and destruction,
and bombs, and tanks, and planes, and everything
else that defense contractors want to sell
to you.
Ethics rules are not the problem.
The problem is that guys like you have no
ethics, and you clearly don't even know anybody
who possesses any form of ethics in them.
That's why you're upset.
You're upset that you now have to play by
the rules.
You know, yeah, things were a little bit more
lawless during the Reagan Administration.
I mean, let's not forget Iran-Contra, which
would certainly, if it happened today, lead
to an impeachment and multiple prison sentences
for more than just a handful of people.
Those are the days you miss, the days you
could escape scrutiny, the days you could
get away with anything.
Well, even under the Trump Administration,
people are being held accountable.
What happened to Ryan Zinke earlier this week,
being referred to the DOJ for possible criminal
investigation, is proof of that.
The multiple times that Kellyanne Conway has
been found to be in violation of the Hatch
Act is proof of that.
The investigations into Pruitt, Carson, DeVos,
Nikki Haley, Steve Mnuchin, all of them, show
that no matter how lawless you wish it were
in Washington, D.C., there are still enough
people present to hold those in power accountable
when they repeatedly break the law.
