The article in June 2020 had quoted whistleblower Christopher Wylie as saying that John Bolton was "obsessed with how America was becoming limp-wristed and spineless"
In 2020 - Bolton published his memoir and titled with a load phrase - "The Room Where It Happened".
The review in The Guardian, published (June 21, 2020) said -
"The ex-national security adviser is no hero or martyr – and certainly no prose stylist. What counts is how damaging his memoir will be".
Written by Lloyd Green, the piece said:
"John Bolton’s near-600-page tome is the most damning written account by a Trump administration alumnus, the one that stands to haunt the president ... . In the author’s judgment, “I don’t think he’s fit for office. I don’t think he has the competence to carry out the job.”
"Joe Biden couldn’t say it better himself."
Bolton was Donald Trump’s third national security adviser.
The memoir claimed Trump was 'begging' for China’s assistance in 2019.
He even reportedly/allegedly said -- “Make sure I win … Buy a lot of soybeans and wheat and make sure we win”.
The write up said - The president’s (Trump's) loyalists know they are staring at a problem that isn’t disappearing. Insult is the only available weapon.
Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, called Bolton a traitor. Peter Navarro, the White House trade hawk, labeled 'The Room Where It Happened' - a “deep swamp revenge porn”.
Efforts were made to stop the publication of the book.
A federal judge declined to block the book’s publication.
That was the time things were indicated on how 2021 Presidential polls would turn out to be.
Trump trailed Joe Biden by double digits.
To quote James Baker, 'John’s an extraordinarily bright guy'.
'The Room Where It Happened' - the book - is laden with proximity and credibility, which makes it a book to be believed, wrote Lloyd Green,
He further went on -
"Not surprisingly, Trump bashes Bolton as a liar and threatens him with criminal prosecution. But Bolton retains his famed notepads. Trump beware".
The US president’s public persona is "little different" from the man behind the Resolute Desk, said the article.
'The Room Where It Happened' chronicled, for example, Trump’s animus toward the late John McCain. Bolton describes the president’s “vindictiveness, as evidenced by the constant eruptions against McCain, even after McCain died and could do Trump no more harm”. (went the write up)
In 2019, during impeachment proceedings against Trump, the US as a nation focused on the congressional testimony of Fiona Hill and Lt Col Alexander Vindman, members of Bolton’s own National Security Council.
Bolton himself sat mum, despite the fact he had already left the White House. Like Nero, he fiddled when things got hot.
During the impeachment trial, Bolton said he would respect a Senate subpoena demanding his testimony – knowing that writ would never arrive. Even as The Room Where It Happened is published, Senate Republicans persist in claiming Bolton’s revelations would not have changed a thing.
Bolton witnessed the president trading national security for dirt on Biden, bartering the US justice system for Turkey’s benefit, turning into Xi’s lapdog.
But when it counted, Bolton elected to hold his peace. Belatedly posing as virtuous brings limited rewards, Green had written rather acidly.
For the price of a publisher’s advance, Bolton now opines that the House Democrats committed “impeachment malpractice” by not broadening their investigation. He may have come to loathe the president, but “owning the libs” took precedence.
In case anyone forgot, once upon a time Bolton was a client of Cambridge Analytica.
In 2014, Bolton’s Super Pac contracted with the company for “behavioral microtargeting with psychographic messaging”. That meant plundering Facebook users’ data.
According to whistleblower Christopher Wylie: “Bolton Pac was obsessed with how America was becoming limp-wristed and spineless and it wanted research and messaging for national security issues.” In his book, Bolton’s description is more modest: “In late 2013, I formed a Pac and a Super Pac to aid House and Senate candidates who believed in a strong US national security policy.”
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