John Bolton: Trump's Last Goal Is Tearing Republican Party apart

John Bolton, US former assistant to the president for national security affairs, accused, Saturday, President Donald Trump of tearing the Republican Party apart.

“Apparently, Trump's last goal is to tear apart his party,” Bolton said on Twitter. “He's lighting the torch to his own political funeral pyre by attacking Republicans who dare not kiss his ring.”

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On Friday, Republicans in the US Senate overrode Trump's veto of defense spending bill for the first time in his presidency, just 20 days before he leaves office.

The Senate gathered in a rare New Year’s Day meeting, and voted 81-13 for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), achieving the two-thirds majority needed to override the veto with bipartisan support.

It comes just two days before a new US Congress will be sworn in on Sunday.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell stated that he was determined to pass the bill.

“Here's what the Senate is focused on - completing the annual defence legislation that looks after our brave men and women who volunteer to wear the uniform,” McConnell asserted.

"We've passed this legislation 59 years in a row. And one way or another, we're going to complete the 60th annual NDAA and pass it into law before this Congress concludes on Sunday," he added.

Trump has called the 4,500-page act a "gift to China and Russia."

“Unfortunately, the Act fails to include critical national security measures, includes provisions that fail to respect our veterans and our military’s history, and contradicts efforts by my Administration to put America first in our national security and foreign policy actions,” he said in a statement issued by the White House.

“My administration has taken strong actions to help keep our nation safe and support our service members,” the US President added in the statement. “I will not approve this bill, which would put the interests of the Washington, D.C., establishment over those of the American people. It is my duty to return H.R. 6395 to the House of Representatives without my approval.”