John Bolton
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There is an arrogance in sharing classified information with one's family members.
They don't have clearances.
The flies land in the wound.
They lay their eggs.
The larva then is what actually eats the flesh.
All models showed that this pest would be here by last summer.
With the extremely aggressive action with the support of this committee and an entire across government effort, we began to push back very significantly starting February of last year.
The aggressive action we took across the Trump administration and with our state and local partners bought us almost a year of critical time to prepare for what happened yesterday.
We have now activated our new world screw room response playbook, which includes detailed protocols and procedures for just this scenario.
Under the last administration and after having the Darien Gap, which is the biological barrier between South America and Central America, which held the screwworm at bay since the 1960s, that barrier
that barrier and gap crumbled under the last administration.
With open borders and the proliferation of the Mexican cartels and their illicit cattle trafficking, the New World Screw Room began to make its way north, hitting Mexico in 2023 and 2024.
If the Iranian regime is allowed to survive, which it looks like Trump is prepared to acknowledge, they will simply benefit from the reopening of the strait to sell more oil, gain more revenue and entrench themselves in power, giving them time, rebuild their nuclear program, rebuild their military, rebuild their terrorist proxies.
And an X period of time, we'll be right back where we started from.
This is a deal about gasoline prices at the pump in the United States.
Trump worries, obviously, about the price levels people are paying.
He's worried about the effect on inflation.
He's worried about the effect on the elections in November.
But this is not a deal that really ends the war in a satisfactory way for the United States.
One of the most controversial aspects that's still very murky in this deal is whether the United States