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# Generated: 2026-09-03T12:26:19.630Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  John Robert Bolton II was born November 20, 1948, and built a career shuttling between government posts and think tanks, always pressing for harder lines abroad. He served as assistant attorney general under Reagan from 1985 to 1989, then moved to State—first handling international organization affairs from 1989 to 1993, later running arms control policy from 2001 to 2005 while advocating for the Iraq invasion as a director of the Project for the New American Century. George W. Bush made him UN ambassador in 2005 via recess appointment; he left in December 2006 when Senate confirmation looked impossible after Democrats took control. A decade later Donald Trump named him national security advisor in April 2018, and Bolton spent seventeen months pushing to scrap the Iran deal—achieved in May 2018—and calling for regime change across a list that stretched from Syria to North Korea. Trump dismissed him in September 2019; Bolton published The Room Where It Happened the following year, a bestseller built on what he'd seen inside. In October 2025 he was indicted on eighteen counts tied to the unlawful handling of national defense information between 2018 and 2025.