Bolton: Clinton ‘not fit to be president’

Hillary Clinton is unfit to be the nation’s commander in chief, former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton said Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Bolton said Clinton, the presumed Democratic front-runner, will likely tout her experience as secretary of State in her likely presidential bid, “hard as that is to believe.”

{mosads}”Her four years at the State Department demonstrate that she is not fit to be president of the United States,” Bolton said.

The GOP hawk also hammered Clinton’s handling of the 2012 attacks on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.

“She left her desk at the State Department the evening while the attack was still underway in Benghazi,” an animated Bolton said. “She left the State Department to go home.”

Bolton, also a potential White House candidate, argued that national security will be integral to the 2016 race and tried to tie Clinton to Obama.

Bolton cited her support of Obama’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011, her State Department’s “consistent mishandling of the Arab Spring” and failure to predict the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as well as handling of Israeli and Russian relations.

He also blasted the Obama administration’s push to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, negotiations which started during Clinton’s tenure at State.

“This deal will be the biggest act of American appeasement in contemporary history,” Bolton said.

The former ambassador also said North Korea’s nuclear program was “basically a memory lapse” under Clinton.

“On national security issues, Hillary’s record is indistinguishable from Barack Obama’s,” he said.