Trump's Former National Security Chief Says Some Party Hack Wrote Kim Jong Un's 'Love Letters'

Donald Trump‘s National Security Adviser, John Bolton, said the "love letters" the former president said were sent to him by Kim Jong Un were rather written by some party hack.

What Happened: Bolton, in an interview on CNN, said the letters that Trump received were filled with phrases like "your excellency," which Trump mistook for "love letters."

“Well, we saw warning signs in Trump’s reaction to these letters that Kim sent him before the Singapore summit and then after,” Bolton said, adding that “now there is no doubt in my mind, these letters were written by some community party hack in the prop of the North Korea Workers Party, but they were filled with phrases like ‘your excellency,’ and he thought there were love letters."

Bolton repeated his comments about Trump’s incompetency to be the president for the second time. "This is no joking matter."

He called Kim a ruthless dictator whose nation suffers from extreme poverty and is actively developing missiles to target the U.S. and argued that Trump’s lack of understanding regarding the gravity of the threat posed by the North Korean regime makes it highly perilous for Washington to have him control foreign policy for another four years.

"I don’t think he understands what he’s up against when he faces the hard men of contemporary international affairs. Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping — he just doesn’t know what room he’s in.”

Why It Matters: As the competition for the Republican nomination intensifies, the former Trump ally Bolton has hurled a series of accusations at the ex-president. The former NSA told the publication that he is also mulling his bid for the Republican nomination for the 2024 U.S. Presidential elections. Bolton last month said Chinese leader Xi, North Korean dictator, and Russian President Putin used to think Trump was a “laughing fool.”

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