How should Albanese handle Trump? John Bolton has some hard truths about the ‘stunningly uninformed’ president | Tom McIlroy

Bolton says the world leader who handled the US president better than anyone else was Shinzo Abe: he never asked Trump for anything

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Like most people in Donald Trump's orbit at one time or another, John Bolton, the US president's former national security adviser, was unceremoniously pushed out.

Adviser to four Republican presidents and George W Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, Bolton's hawkish foreign policy views and vocal support for the Iraq war made him a divisive pick to serve in Trump's first administration.