When someone is a member of your tribe he can do no wrong. See quote down. While I am not a fan of Bolton he speaks his mind and he tells it like he sees it.
"We now know that John Bolton would testify that Trump told him directly that he was soliciting a bribe from Ukraine."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...y-surge-after-new-revelations-about-ukrainian
"Humans universally make Us/Them dichotomies along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, language group, religion, age, socioeconomic status, and so on. And it’s not a pretty picture. We do so with remarkable speed and neurobiological efficiency; have complex taxonomies and classifications of ways in which we denigrate Thems; do so with a versatility that ranges from the minutest of microaggression to bloodbaths of savagery; and regularly decide what is inferior about Them based on pure emotion, followed by primitive rationalizations that we mistake for rationality. Pretty depressing." Robert M. Sapolsky
http://nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd/why-your-brain-hates-other-people