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Why be shocked by John Bolton’s book? Trump’s disasters are always plain to see Simon Tisdall The former national security adviser has laid bare the president’s foreign policy failings. As election day looms, they will only grow worse Former national security adviser John Bolton with President Trump at a Nato meeting in the 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
In a curious article for The New York Times, John Gans delves into an analysis of the perennially bizarre phenomenon known in Washington by the name of John Bolton. The article uses the case of Bolton, the former national security adviser, to examine what Gans calls “the anarchy” at the core of the Trump administration’s […] 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
Former security adviser calls Trump ‘stunningly uninformed’ DoJ lawyers likely to face battle to halt memoir’s publication Trump and Bolton in September 2018. The Trump administration has tried to block Bolton’s book from being published on the grounds that it contains classified material. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA The Trump administration will go to court on Friday […] More
John Bolton’s memoir of his time in the Trump administration tells us many things that we already know. The president understands very little about how the world works, treats his office as an extension of his personal and family interests, and is obsequious to foreign dictators. According to Bolton’s new book, Donald Trump asked China […] More
