Rachel Maddow blisters Trump for making a fool of John Bolton: 'How do you come to work anymore?'

On Friday, MNSBC's Rachel Maddow pointed out one of the lesser-considered consequences of President Donald Trump's friendly phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin: it makes his war hawk national security adviser John Bolton look like a fool for his aggressive posture against Russia in the uprising against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

"Hey, John Bolton, hey, Mike Pompeo, are you guys enjoying your jobs right now?" said Maddow. "You each thought your job this week was to name and shame and threaten and counter Russian government involvement in Venezuela while saber-rattling about how everybody else better get out of the way because the U.S. is really mad about it. Guys, turns out your actual job is figuring out how and why you work for a president that says whatever Vladimir Putin tells him."

"I mean, I mean, just to be clear here, I mean, how do you come to work anymore if you're John Bolton? Regardless of what you thought about John Bolton before this, his whole career, his track record, I mean, just think of John Bolton as a human being. This is what John Bolton, human being, thought his job was this week. Again, whether or not — whether you like what he's saying here or not, this is what they've had him out there saying."

"Look, the Russians like nothing better than putting a thumb in our eye," Maddow continued. "They're using the Cubans as surrogates, they'd love to get effective control of a country in this hemisphere. We made it clear to Russians in a lot of conversations at a lot of different levels some of which are going to continue today why we think this behavior is unacceptable to us."

"You thought that was your job," Maddow concluded, addressing Bolton. "Turns out not at all, not after Vladimir Putin gets done with President Trump today."

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