Bolton attributes a litany of shocking statements to the president. Trump said invading Venezuela would be “cool” and that the South American nation was “really part of the United States.” Bolton says Trump kept confusing the current and former presidents of Afghanistan, while asking Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to help him strike a deal with Iran. And Trump told Xi that Americans were clamoring for him to change constitutional rules to serve more than two terms, according to the book.
He also describes a summer 2019 meeting in New Jersey where Trump says journalists should be jailed so they have to divulge their sources: “These people should be executed. They are scumbags,” Trump said, according to Bolton’s account.
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This.
Any “earth shattering” reveal in the book will be well covered in the media.
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Bolton says Trump said he wanted out of Afghanistan during his second year instead of his third year so he could blame his predecessor for the war. Screaming about the border wall in a meeting with top advisers in 2018, Trump described why illegal immigration had to go down and the wall had to go up, according to Bolton’s book.
“I got elected on this issue and now I’m going to get unelected,” Trump said, startling those around him.
For all his public bluster, Bolton describes Trump as frequently uncertain, fretful and wobbly during difficult policy choices.
For instance, driven by a desire to please Florida Republicans, Trump talked tough about his desire to oust Maduro throughout much of 2018. But Bolton portrays Trump as inconsistent and worry-worn when presented with the opportunity to support Guaidó, who declared himself Venezuela’s president in January 2019. Though Trump approved of a proposal from Bolton to publicly declare the United States recognized Guaidó rather than Maduro, within 30 hours Trump was already worrying that Guaidó appeared weak — a “kid” compared to “tough” Maduro — and considering changing course. “You couldn’t make this up,” Bolton writes.
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Bolton spends little effort trying to explain Trump’s sympathetic approach to Putin. But the book makes the case that there is a disturbing and undeniable pattern of presidential reluctance to embrace policies designed to inhibit Russian aggression. He describes in detail the events leading up to the widely panned Helsinki summit in July 2018, when Trump sided with Putin against U.S. intelligence agencies over Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
“This was hardly the way to do relations with Russia, and Putin had to be laughing uproariously at what he had gotten away with in Helsinki,” Bolton writes.
Soon after he arrived at the White House, Bolton said Kelly gave him a warning. “You can’t imagine how desperate I am to get out of here,” Kelly said, according to Bolton’s book. “This is a bad place to work, as you will find out.”
“Why is Jared calling Mexicans?” Kelly asked loudly, according to the book.
“Because I asked him to. How else are we going to stop the caravans?” Trump responded.
Erratic?
Stunningly uninformed?!?
The hell you say
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Never pirated a book, a video game, a song, not even a stream for sports. Really, really tempted to be a hypocrite for this book. I may first get a library card and try that route first.
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Library cards rule! Most of my book reading over the past several years (both physical and kindle) has been from the library. “Libraries are good” is my most socialist take.
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trump: invading venezuela would be cool
bolton: omg that’s so wrong! invading iran would be cool
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People. Seriously.
There’s absolutely no reason to read this book.
Do you think you’re going to find some juicy paragraph on page 406 or whatever that literally thousands of journalists missed? Trump is a colossal moron. News at 11.
Every interesting excerpt will be seen in the media well before this book gets released.
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ya i mean i just posted all of them. you can cancel the preorder
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Trump being a fucking idiot is classified information?
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Trump makes John Bolton seem reasonable.*
*According to John Bolton.
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Weaver is the project lincoln clown, gtfo
https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1273351117716377601?s=20
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If I like a withdrawn post, does an angel lose its wings?
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No point. He’s already learned his lesson.
Breaking: Breaking: DOJ confirms everything in Bolton’s book
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LOL Kelly. So quit, asshole.
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Fuck every last one of these assholes. There isn’t a big enough eyeroll.gif in the world for this bullshit.
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