John Bolton Went from Political COVID-19 to Hero with Anti-Trump Book

On The Evening Edit on Fox Business on Monday night, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell said the media treated John Bolton as the "political equivalent of COVID-19" and a knuckle-dragging, fire-breathing caveman....until he turned on President Trump.

Anchor Liz McDonald began with an Axios report that former Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a new book, and wrote “Bolton was a classic case of a senior White house official drunk on power who had forgotten nobody elected him to anything.”

BRENT BOZELL: Let’s look at the history here. John Bolton was, up until last fall, in the eyes of the media, was the political equivalent of COVID-19. I mean, for years, they projected him as some knuckle-dragging, fire-breathing Cro-Magnon. But then he turned on the president – and suddenly, all was forgiven, all was forgotten, and now he’s the hero.

Just last night on ABC, consider, he was on there for an hour. This is something you give to celebrities -- unless it’s the person attacking Donald Trump. The last person, somebody got that kind of treatment was, James Comey, when he wrote a book attacking Donald Trump. So now you have, Sarah Sanders has her explosive take in her book. Do you think Elizabeth, do you think she’s going to be given an hour of time on prime-time television to tell her story? Do you think the Sarah Sanders will be given five minutes to tell her story? John Bolton’s going after the president. So he’s the star, Liz.

McDonald relayed another tale from the Sarah Sanders book, that on a trip to London, then-Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney called Bolton a “self-righteous, self-centered [SOB].” South Korea is disputing Bolton’s tale of Trump’s summit in North Korea, as is Rep. Jim Jordan.