Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday he would seriously consider running for president in 2024 if other Republicans don’t publicly condemn former President Donald Trump’s comments about reforming the Constitution.
“We already have one declared candidate for president in the Republican Party, who doesn’t believe in the Constitution. This is serious business,” Bolton said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Trump, who officially announced his 2024 candidacy weeks ago, called for some “rules, regulations, and articles” to be terminated from the Constitution after Twitter CEO Elon Musk released documents detailing how the “Biden team” asked Twitter to delete posts days before the 2020 election.
“So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD AND DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democratic Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. (RELATED: Trump Announces 2024 Presidential Run)
“All of the potential candidates know what Trump has said. This is no secretary to anybody. I don’t see why they aren’t saying it right now,” Bolton said, adding that 95% of American voters “disagree that Donald Trump is more important than the Constitution.”
BREAKING: Fmr. Nat’l Security Adviser John Bolton is considering a 2024 presidential run if it would prevent fmr. President Trump from taking office again.
Bolton: “You can’t simply say, ‘I support the Constitution.’ You have to say, ‘I would oppose people who undercut it.’” pic.twitter.com/Twy8pluMYT
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) December 5, 2022
“What does a candidate have to lose by appealing to 95% of the base of the Republican Party?” he added, saying a majority of Republicans in Washington disagree with Trump on the Constitution, “but they’re intimidated.”
“I’d like to see Shermanesque statements from all the potential candidates. If I don’t see that, then I’m going to seriously consider getting in,” Bolton said, noting that his time to decide will have to be “short.”