The US president's national security adviser tells Sky News that America is ready to do a deal with a 'newly independent Britain'.
He's turned to Twitter, echoing the approach of his boss to foreign policy, to try and apply pressure on Mr Maduro's regime.But Mr Bolton, who has built a reputation as a straight talking foreign policy hawk, says the US is not ready to take military action."I don't think we are closer to military action," he said."Although the president is very clear that all options are on the table.
Top military leaders are helping to keep Mr Maduro in power. But Mr Bolton says senior members are escaping in secret.He said:"A substantial number of the families of military leaders have left the country. Some of them, are in Miami, some in Panama, some in Cuba, some in Spain."He and the president are hoping to get support from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, dubbed the"Trump of the Tropics" who is visiting the White House today.
He's courted plenty of controversy too, saying he'd rather his son die than be homosexual and once telling a female congresswoman he wouldn't rape her because she doesn't"deserve" it. Mr Bolton said it wasn't the administration's job to re-litigate those statements and that the administration's focus is now on the strategic political and economic issues they can agree on. Mr Bolsonaro is the first overtly pro-American president to lead Brazil.
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