Ex-Trump official raises alarm about the return of 'fundamentally ignorant' ex-president

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday, one of Donald Trump's former national advisors warned that returning the former president to the Oval Office would be a grave mistake that would haunt the country — and the world — for years.

Speaking with co-host Mika Brzezinski, former Trump official John Bolton explained that he had no doubt the former president would try and gut NATO by withdrawing U.S. support because he doesn't understand geopolitics or the dangers such a move would create at all.

After watching a clip of Trump disparaging NATO, Bolton told the MSNBC host, "I think Trump actually says what comes to mind. As a very astute person once said to me, he doesn't have a filter between his brain and his mouth."

"So when he, for example, threatens to get out of NATO, as he did during his first term and has done since then, I think people better believe it, and I think that would be a catastrophic mistake for American national security and the security of the west as a whole" he added.

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"In the clip you just ran, he said several things that are simply incorrect," he asserted. "And it reveals an important trait about Trump on national security issues and many others: he is fundamentally ignorant. He really doesn't care about the facts. He thinks international relations are about personal relations, which is a line and approach that I can tell you, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are eagerly looking forward to."

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