John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, political commentator, Republican consultant, a former diplomat and federal government official.
Bolton was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 to December 2006 as a recess appointee by President George W. Bush.[6] He resigned at the end of his recess appointment in December 2006[7][8] because he was unlikely to win confirmation from the Senate, of which the Democratic Party had gained control at the time.[9][10] In later years, Bolton was the National Security Advisor of the United States under the Trump administration from April 2018 to September 2019.
Bolton is a former senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI),[11] and Fox News Channel commentator. He was a foreign policy adviser to 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney.[12] Bolton has been involved with numerous conservative organizations, including the anti-Muslim Gatestone Institute,[13] where he was the organization Chairman until March 2018,[14] and as a Director of the Project for the New American Century, which favored going to war with Iraq.
Bolton is a foreign policy hawk and is an advocate for regime change in Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen and North Korea.[15][16] He has also repeatedly called for the termination of the Iran nuclear deal. He was an advocate of the Iraq War and continues to support the decision to invade Iraq.[17] He has continuously supported military action and regime change in Syria, Libya, and Iran.[17][18] A Republican, his political views have been described as American nationalist,[19][20] conservative,[21][22][23][24] and neoconservative.[25] Bolton rejects the last term.[26][27][28]
