{"id":1959,"date":"2019-08-31T05:40:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T05:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2019-08-31T05:40:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T05:40:56","slug":"john-bolton-reportedly-sidelined-by-trump-admin-on-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton Reportedly \u2018Sidelined\u2019 By Trump Admin On Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">(TOLO NEWS): There has been some reporting this year about Mr. Bolton losing some standing with President Donald Trump. The Washington Post said earlier this year Trump was \u201cfrustrated\u201d with Bolton on Iran, while the New York Times said Trump \u201cmakes no secret\u201d of his dislike of Bolton in private. Now the Post reveals that Bolton \u2014 who is opposing the peace deal being worked out \u2014 has essentially been sidelined on Afghanistan policy, to the point where he was not allowed to view the draft agreement by himself when he requested it. The Post reports that Mr. Bolton was also out of a key meeting between Mr. Trump and his aides on the peace deal with the Taliban on August 16. Quoted by the US media, one anonymous senior administration official said Mr. Bolton\u2019s team \u201chas a reputation for losing and leaking.\u201d Mr. Bolton responded in a statement saying, \u201cI categorically deny leaks by me or anyone authorized to speak to the press. Those alleging such leaks should look in the mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TOLO NEWS): There has been some reporting this year about Mr. Bolton losing some standing with President Donald Trump. The Washington Post said earlier this year Trump was \u201cfrustrated\u201d with Bolton on Iran, while the New York Times said Trump \u201cmakes no secret\u201d of his dislike of Bolton in private. Now the Post reveals that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}