He thinks the sanctions were insufficient. And he said this:
Bolton, who was for a time under consideration to join Trump’s administration at the State Department, was critical — albeit without naming him — of the president-elect’s unwillingness to address Russian cyberattacks head on.
“We really need to get past the politics of this, because if even a piece of what is alleged about this Russian activity is true, it is utterly unacceptable,” Bolton said. “It is an attack on our constitutional system. It is not enough to say, and people should be very careful about this, to say, well, it didn't actually have an impact on the election. You know, the fact that Russian efforts were incompetent or insufficient shouldn't make us feel better.
“If Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor and all of its bombs and torpedoes had missed, no Americans killed, no ships sunk, would we have said no harm, no foul?” Bolton continued. “No, it's the effort that they made, if this is accurate, that should trouble us. Not the fact that it failed.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/john-bolton-russia-sanctions-effect-barack-obama-donald-trump-233055
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