John Bolton on Current Trump Envoy: ‘A Disaster in the Making’ Who ‘Doesn’t Know Anything’

HUNT: “What is your understanding of how the Secretary of State Marco Rubio is interacting with Steve Witkoff? Because there’s been some reported frustration there. I mean, it’s been Witkoff, you know, flying to Moscow and talking to Vladimir Putin. I’m curious kind of your sense of watching and talking, as I know you do, to many in the national security establishment about who’s really in charge here?”

BOLTON: “Well, I don’t think it’s Marco Rubio. If I were in his shoes, I’d be extraordinarily frustrated. I think Witkoff reports directly to Trump. That’s the advantage he has. He will do exactly what Trump says. And I think this is a disaster in the making, a disaster on the Ukraine/Russia front, a potential disaster on the Iran front. I mean, if you look at Witkoff, he doesn’t know anything about Ukraine. He doesn’t know anything about Russia. He doesn’t know anything about Iran. He doesn’t know anything about nuclear weapons. He doesn’t know anything about arms control and nonproliferation. And he doesn’t know anything about state-to-state negotiation. Really, it’s hard to imagine a less qualified person, and yet, he is Trump’s personal envoy. I just think this is a huge risk and you have neither before a national security adviser or a Secretary of State who had any control over him.”