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The inevitable fallout between the president and his national security adviser makes for a punchy but self-aggrandising memoir ‘Bad cop and worse cop’: Donald Trump and John Bolton in the White House, May 2018. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Any hairdresser could have told them it wouldn’t work. Trump initially refused to hire John Bolton because […] More
Interview Lisa O’Kelly Four years ago, the author predicted that Trump would transform the US into an autocracy. Now, Gessen believes the country is in a revolutionary moment Read an extract from Masha Gessen’s Surviving Autocracy ‘They both have this contempt for excellence, they both have a hatred of government’: Presidents Trump and Putin at […] More
John Bolton Judge allows publication of tell-all but slams author’s behaviour Aide: ‘That guy should turn in his seersucker suit for a jumpsuit’ The Room Where It Happened: a broadside to sink Trump? John Bolton – wearing a seersucker suit – waits in the Oval Office in July 2019. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA White House […] More
The Room Where It Happened review: John Bolton fires broadside that could sink Trump The ex-national security adviser is no hero or martyr and certainly no prose stylist either. What counts is how damaging his memoir will be Donald Trump speaks as John Bolton, national security adviser, listens in August 2019. Photograph: Andrew Harrer/EPA John […] More
Trump says Bolton ‘must pay a very big price for this’ Former national security adviser’s memoir due out Tuesday Donald Trump, left, flanked by national security advisor John Bolton, right, speaks at the White House in April 2018. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images A federal judge has declined to block the publication of a tell-all […] More
Kayleigh McEnany said president ‘likes to have countervailing viewpoints’ amid fallout over ex-national security adviser’s book The Room Where It Happened, by former national security adviser John Bolton. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP As a federal judge considered the Trump administration’s attempt to block a book by John Bolton which has held the president up to global […] More
Play Video 1:31 Political figures have criticised Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, for his new book, The Room Where It Happened, which makes a series of explosive claims about the US president. Democrat speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, echoed Bolton in saying Trump was ‘unfit’ to be president but added that […] More
Trump is trying to block publication of John Bolton’s book. What’s he scared of? Lloyd Green The memoir reportedly depicts Trump as caring more about re-election than US national security. No wonder he wants to quash it ‘Bolton’s the guy who keeps copious notes.’ Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday, the Trump administration […] More
