This is getting dangerous, Margaret Valenti writes. The White House’s threat to John Bolton is just a pattern of threats and obstructive abuses of democracy from a President trying to mitigate a crisis of his own making.
This is getting dangerous, Margaret Valenti writes. The White House’s threat to John Bolton is just a pattern of threats and obstructive abuses of democracy from a President trying to mitigate a crisis of his own making.


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