Former United Nations ambassador and newly designated national security adviser John Bolton reportedly made an implicit threat to a former Brazilian diplomat during the lead-up to the Iraq War in 2002.
"We know where your kids live," he is said to have told the diplomat.
Bolton and the US at the time had been opposed to the diplomat's negotiations with Iraq and Libya.
Former United Nations ambassador John Bolton, whom President Donald Trump just named his national security adviser, reportedly made a bewildering threat against a former Brazilian diplomat who was butting heads with the US on Iraq back in 2002, according to The Intercept.
"We can't accept your management style," Bolton told Bustani in 2002, as Bustani recounted to The Intercept.
After a pause, Bolton reportedly said, "We know where your kids live.
Bustani told his family about the encounter, and his son-in-law, British politician Stewart Wood, said the incident stuck out in his memory. »