Trump's Pucker Factor: Just Went Up 100 Percent Based on John Bolton's New Book

“Bombshell” is Overused Word: In this Case Apropos

(Book accounts appear to be true and factual)

Various excerpts from John Bolton’s soon-to-be released book from here with this headline:

Five bombshells about Trump from Bolton's book

Excerpts from former national security adviser John Bolton’s book about his time in the Trump administration paints a damning view of the president as a “stunningly uninformed” man who was outmatched by the job he was elected to do (according to three newspapers that obtained advance copies of the book).

The White House has sought to block the publication of “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” filing suit against Bolton this week (June 15).

In doing so, however, the Trump administration has helped elevate the memoir’s profile, sending it to the top of bestseller lists nationwide even before it is published on June 23. Excerpts published Tuesday (June 16) by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post contain numerous bombshells. Here are five some of the most explosive:

1. Trump asked China’s Xi for help with his reelection: In an excerpt published in the Wall Street Journal, Bolton, who resigned from the administration in September, wrote the following: “Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility to China among the Democrats. Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with President Xi Jin-ping to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. Bolton wanted to print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”

Trump told Xi he approved of building Chinese concentration camps for Uighur citizens: Another excerpt published by the Journal deals with conversations between Trump and Xi about the construction of concentration camps for China’s largely Muslim Uighur minority, whose loyalty to Beijing is considered suspect by the regime: “At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. The National Security Council’s top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China.”

2. Trump spoke of executing U.S. journalists who didn’t reveal sources for stories: According to excerpts from the WaPost Bolton detailed a July 2019 meeting with the president during which Trump complained bitterly about the media coverage he had received. Specifically, Trump railed against journalists who refused to reveal the sources for their stories, Bolton wrote that Trump said in the meeting: “These people should be executed. They are scumbags.”

3. Pompeo and other Trump staffers derided the president behind his back: An excerpt published by the New York Times recounts an incident that occurred at Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped Bolton a note about Trump that read: “He is so full of s***.”

4. Shortly after he began in his post, Bolton was told by then-chief of staff John Kelly told him: “You can’t imagine how desperate I am to get out of here. This is a bad place to work, as you will find out.” 

5. Bolton also wrote that Democrats botched Trump’s impeachment by focusing only Ukraine: In excerpts published by the NY Times, Bolton was sharply critical of Democrats in Congress for limiting their impeachment proceedings on Trump’s quid pro quo with Ukrainian leaders to help secure his reelection.

Instead, Bolton wrote, they should have expanded their inquiry to a host of misdeeds on the part of the president, including what Bolton described as improper involvement on behalf of authoritarian governments in China and Turkey saying: “A president may not misuse the national government’s legitimate powers by defining his own personal interest as synonymous with the national interest, or by inventing pretexts to mask the pursuit of personal interest under the guise of national interest. Had the House not focused solely on the Ukraine aspects of Trump’s confusion of his personal interests, there might have been a greater chance to persuade others that ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ had been perpetrated.”

Ironically, Bolton refused to testify in the impeachment inquiry against Trump.

My note: Where he could have come across as a national hero and helped remove Trump from office with live testimony in front of Congress and the American public.

Bolton instead was hooked on his book signing deal – some $2 million advance and thus comes across as very unpatriotic and a total insult to the whole world to now see.

Shame on him. I hope his book is a total flop.

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