John Bolton has declared he will not vote for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election, saying: “I don’t think he’s fit for office.”
In an interview with ABC News, Mr Trump’s former national security advisor said he hopes history will remember him as a “one-term president who didn’t plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral”.
Mr Bolton was speaking to promote his book The Room Where It Happened, which is released tomorrow after surviving a legal bid by the Justice Department to block its publication.
“I don’t think he should be president. I don’t think he’s fit for office. I don’t think he has the competence to carry out the job. I don’t think he’s a conservative Republican. I’m not going to vote for him in November. I’m certainly not going to vote for Joe Biden, either. I’m going to figure out a conservative Republican to write in,” he told ABC News chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz.
The interview followed a report that Mr Bolton would be backing Mr Biden in November, a claim that denied by his team.
Asked how he thought history would remember Mr Trump, Mr Bolton replied: “I hope it will remember him as a one-term president who didn’t plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral we can’t recall from. We can get over one term. Two terms I’m more troubled about.”
