John Bolton’s Plea to Block Kash Patel’s Confirmation Exposes the Swamp’s Desperation

There are certain blacklists it’s probably better to be on than to be left off of — and one of them is definitely John Bolton’s.
If there are swampier Beltway swamp creatures than the Bush 43 and Trump official — who left both administrations under what can best be described as inauspicious terms — it’d be hard to find one. Of the 194 other recognized countries that aren’t the United States in this world, there are 194 that John Bolton feels it’s Washington’s job to meddle in, and usually with unsurprisingly bad result …