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Catherine Herridge@CBS_Herridge#BoltonBook DOJ seeks temporary restraining order citing classified information + motion for preliminary injunction. Seeks hearing “at the Court’s earliest convenience on Friday, June 19..because Mr. Bolton’s book is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, June 23, 2020†8:29 PM · Jun 17, 2020·Twitter for iPhonehttps://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1273412516429942785
Catherine Herridge@CBS_Herridge#BoltonBook Speaking to @CBSNews @RudyGiuliani said “I recommended John Bolton to the President for National Security Adviser because it is good to have balance in an administration and opposing views. I personally warned John Bolton that the President would not always agree with...him, and to be ready for it. The President has the final say. I never imagined in a million years Bolton would write this book about a sitting President. I have known him for 11 years and if he had any problems with my work in Ukraine as the...President’s personal attorney, he never told me to my face and he had many chances to do so. My conclusion is that Bolton is an unreliable backstabber who wrote his version of events so that he can sell a bookâ€8:46 PM · Jun 17, 2020·Twitter for iPhonehttps://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1273416675203919872
The Hill@thehillKellyanne Conway to reporters: "It is absolutely precious and adorable how all pro-John Bolton you all are now. It's really cute."Video: https://twitter.com/thehill/status/12733675654448209925:31 PM · Jun 17, 2020·Twitter Media Studio
Andrew Desiderio@AndrewDesiderio·1mThis is by far the most explosive allegation from the Bolton book that we’ve seen so far—that Trump *encouraged* Xi to continue building concentration camps for religious minorities in Xinjiang, & that Trump “thought it was exactly the right thing to do.â€
That one kills Bolton's credibility at square 1. No sane POTUS or even American would say anything that stupid. I am thinking Bolton didn't get to play Boom ! Boom!, and now wants to return a little pay back.
And she really isn't. I am surprised she is still married.
I suggest you focus on your own marriage ... if you have one. It might improve your mood.
He's said many things like that over the years. No surprise.
When you're that close to the President, you need some discretion and at least wait till he's out of office.This is dirty, vindictive, and unbecoming behavior, and he's lost all credibility with me.
In ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ John Bolton Dumps His Notes and Smites His EnemiesNY Times, Jan 17, 2020<snip>In another book by another writer, such anecdotes might land with a stunning force, but Bolton fails to present them that way, leaving them to swim in a stew of superfluous detail. Besides, the moment he cites as the real “turning point†for him in the administration had to do with an attack on Iran that, to Bolton’s abject disappointment, didn’t happen.In June 2019, Iran had shot down an unmanned American drone, and Bolton, who has always championed what he proudly calls “disproportionate response,†pushed Trump to approve a series of military strikes in retaliation. You can sense Bolton’s excitement when he describes going home “at about 5:30†for a change of clothes because he expected to be at the White House “all night.†It’s therefore an awful shock when Trump decided to call off the strikes at the very last minute, after learning they would kill as many as 150 people. “Too many body bags,†Trump told him. “Not proportionate.â€Bolton still seems incensed at this unexpected display of caution and humanity on the part of Trump, deeming it “the most irrational thing I ever witnessed any President do.†In the book, Bolton is vague about the targets themselves, though it was later reported that he wanted one of them to be the Iranian commander Qassim Suleimani, killed on Jan. 3 by American airstrikes, four months after Bolton left the administration. On Jan. 6, Bolton finally agreed to testify at the impeachment trial if the Republican-controlled Senate subpoenaed him — which, as predicted, it never did.As for what Bolton might have said at the trial, his chapter on Ukraine is weird, circuitous and generally confounding. It’s full of his usual small-bore detail, but on the bigger, more pointed questions, the sentences get windy and conspicuously opaque. He confirms what Fiona Hill, a White House aide, recalled him saying to her when she testified at the House impeachment hearings (including his memorable comparison of Rudolph Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, to a “hand grenadeâ€). But Bolton declines to offer anything comparatively vivid in his own book, taking cover in what he depicts as his own bewilderment.[...]When it comes to Bolton’s comments on impeachment, the clotted prose, the garbled argument and the sanctimonious defensiveness would seem to indicate some sort of ambivalence on his part — a feeling that he doesn’t seem to have very often. Or maybe it merely reflects an uncomfortable realization that he’s stuck between two incompatible impulses: the desire to appear as courageous as those civil servants who bravely risked their careers to testify before the House; and the desire to appease his fellow Republicans, on whom his own fastidiously managed career most certainly depends. It’s a strange experience reading a book that begins with repeated salvos about “the intellectually lazy†by an author who refuses to think through anything very hard himself.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/books/review-room-where-it-happened-john-bolton-memoir.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
He's a text book example of a cowardly sell out. Real red flag for me, is he wouldn't say these things under oath, but when there is the smell of a $2M tell all, he is on it like flies on shit. So how much of this is really true, if it couldn't be said under oath...Now add the fact, we are in the midst of probably a close election, and crap like this could sway the election? This jerk is worse than the enemy. He's a Benedict Arnold to anything and anyone standing for and trying to fight off the pending socialist wave.
Nobody should be surprised he's said many things like that. Everyone knew what he said about Tiananmen Square:An interview that Trump gave to Playboy in 1990 has just come to my attention. If I’m the last to know about it, forgive me. Trump was asked about Gorbachev — who was nearing the end of his time in power. Trump said, “Russia is out of control and the leadership knows it. That’s my problem with Gorbachev. Not a firm enough hand.†His interviewer asked, “You mean firm hand as in China?†Trump answered, “When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak … as being spit on by the rest of the world –†https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/donald-trump-praised-tiananmen-square-massacre/...
Bolton: I don't think Trump is 'fit for office'https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/503335-john-bolton-on-trump-i-dont-think-hes-fit-for-office
This is all we are going to hear about for the next couple of months..this IS big news to them...now Shiftforbrains wants him to testify before Congress...
