{"id":27971,"date":"2016-11-14T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=27971"},"modified":"2016-11-14T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T00:06:23","slug":"stop-john-bolton-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/stop-john-bolton-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop John Bolton \u2013 On Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for the soul of the Trump administration is already going full swing \u2013 and he isn\u2019t even President yet.<\/p>\n<p>The battle lines are being drawn over the office of Secretary of State, and anti-internationalist and non-interventionists in the Trump coalition are angry that former UN Ambassador John Bolton is even being considered. Bolton was an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_for_the_New_American_Century#Calls_for_regime_change_in_Iraq\">early supporter<\/a> of the Project for a New American Century, the neoconservative outfit that brought us the Iraq war, and he\u2019s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2016-11-14\/national-review-backs-john-bolton-for-secretary-of-state\">endorsed by <i>National Review<\/i><\/a> \u2013 a neocon mouthpiece that actively campaigned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/430137\/donald-trump-conservative-movement-shouldnt-support-him\">against Trump<\/a>. His hostility to Russia, which he believes must be subjected to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/aug\/8\/john-bolton-russias-vladimir-putin-its-time-cause-\/\">pain<\/a>,\u201d flies in the face of Trump\u2019s stated intention to \u201cget along\u201d with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how you can stop the Bolton nomination from getting off the ground. The Trump transition team is asking for input from the public. If you have a Twitter account, you can tweet your opposition to Bolton by directing your tweet at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/transition2017\">@transition2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your message short, sweet, and to the point: \u201cNo to Bolton\u201d will do, but get creative if you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for the soul of the Trump administration is already going full swing \u2013 and he isn\u2019t even President yet. The battle lines are being drawn over the office of Secretary of State, and anti-internationalist and non-interventionists in the Trump coalition are angry that former UN Ambassador John Bolton is even being considered. Bolton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-27971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27974,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27971\/revisions\/27974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27971"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}