'He hasn't changed at all': Ex-Trump official reacts to latest insults
One of the former Donald Trump officials who got slammed in a social media post by the president-elect responded to the criticism.
Trump hailed more than 1,000 new hires for federal positions in his impending administration Wednesday night on Truth Social but offered notification that he would not consider candidates who had associations to noteworthy critics, such as former high-ranking officials Mike Pence, Nikki Haley and John Bolton, whom he called "dumb as a rock."
"Well, you know, it's very typical of Trump to open his mouth without knowing what he's talking about," Bolton told CNN, "and I bear no ill will to the people who once worked for me, who have already been announced for jobs in in the Trump administration. I'm not going to name them and get them into trouble or the many others that I'm aware of are still trying to get jobs in the Trump administration, so I think that list he's put out there is a pretty good company to be in, and I can't wait for the intrepid journalists at CNN and elsewhere to reveal all the names of these people who have worked for people on the blacklist."
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Bolton predicted that many of those new hires would soon join the ranks of former Trump officials-turned-critics once they got a front-row seat for his antics.
"Look, there are a lot of people, and it's normal in a transition," Bolton said. "The incoming president's team and their supporters are just in the rapture – everything's fine, everything's going to be okay, all things will happen. Everything will be a victory, and for those who say that Trump is reformed, that he's grown, that he's going to be a normal president, this is the kind of thing like the Mar-a-Lago press conference last week that demonstrates he hasn't changed at all. It's going to be four years, just like the last four years."
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