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| Trump fighting to keep John Bolton book from reaching the shelves. |
Trump attacked former national security adviser John Bolton during several interviews late Wednesday, saying the former aide didn't get approval to publish a forthcoming book about his White House experience and therefore broke the law.
"He is a liar," Trump told The Wall Street Journal, adding that "everybody in the White House hated John Bolton."
Bolton, a former UN Ambassador under George W. Bush and former Fox News agitator joined Trump in 2018 and stayed on until 2019. During his time, he took notes. He saw things that made him really concerned about the way things were going.
Trump claimed he fired him out the cannon, Bolton said he resigned.
Now it's 2020 and a book about his time working with Trump is coming out. Trump vows to stop the book from its release because it contains "classified information." He said that Bolton could face criminal charges.
According to Bolton's as-yet unpublished draft manuscript, Attorney General William Barr and Bolton had a conservation about Trump had appeared to have undue influence over two U.S. Justice Department investigation of companies in China and Turkey; specifically regarding China's leader Xi Jinping with regard to ZTE and Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan with regard to Halkbank.
Bolton claimed that Trump in a desperate attempt to win reelection in farming states wanted Xi to buy American soybeans and wheat. He wanted to get Trump on record about that but was denied access. Trump had no problems with China's concentration camps towards Muslims and opposition opponents.Bolton described Trump's failure to recognize foreign policy. This was said before. Bolton claimed that Trump thought Finland was a part of Russia.
Bolton claimed that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Trump was full of shit. He said during the highly publicized meeting between Kim Jong-Un and Trump, Pompeo smirked at the fact that Trump was giving too much to the North Korean dictator. Bolton said that North Korea played Trump for a fool.
Bolton said that Jared Kushner was inexperienced. During the conversation between Trump and Israel's corrupt prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Bolton said that members were shocked to learned that the plan to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was inspired by Kushner.
Trump didn't know that the United Kingdom had nuclear weapons.
Bolton also said that Trump demanded Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. He withheld funds for the Ukraine government because he believed the country was sitting on damaging dirt on Biden.
That led to his impeachment. Trump was impeached in December 2019.
He was not convicted and removed from office in February 2020.
Bolton was supportive of Trump when he first got into office. He was practically begging for a job with Trump. After Trump fired H.R. McMasters out the cannon as National Security Advisor, Trump saw Bolton as a good man who knew how to speak to America.
Behind the scenes, Trump ruthlessly mocked him. He said he hated the mustache. He said that mustache make Bolton look like a dork.
Bolton was a fierce critic of Iran and wanted Trump to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal.
While his book has skyrocketed to the top of New York Times bestsellers listings, the Democrats have criticized Bolton for being a coward for not testifying to the impeachment trial.
Bolton said that he would speak if the court subpoenaed him to testify. Republicans have blocked witnesses to testify in the trial and it led to Trump to not be convicted.
The Room Where It Happened is going to go mainstream on Friday.
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