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Trade adviser also claims without foundation that the virus ‘was a product of the Chinese Communist party’ Donald Trump speaks at the BOK Center in Tulsa. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images White House adviser Peter Navarro claimed Donald Trump was being “tongue in cheek” when he claimed to have asked public health officials to slow down […] More
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
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
Trump pleaded with China’s Xi to help re-election effort President urged Xi to build concentration camps for Muslims In the book, Bolton says the House impeachment inquiry should have gone far beyond Trump’s efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government for political gain. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images Donald Trump was willing to halt criminal investigations […] More
EU ministers are to discuss the need for greater defence cooperation and a renewed intelligence assessment in the face of a heightened risk of a China-US military confrontation. The call for greater EU defence cooperation comes in a Franco-German joint paper and, although familiar, has been given added urgency by fears in the bloc that […] More
‘Trump thought I was a secretary’: Fiona Hill on the president, Putin and populism Fiona Hill: ‘What I was most worried about was the toxicity of the issue of Russia.’ Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images She was the White House’s top Russia expert catapulted to fame by Trump’s impeachment. She reflects on her journey […] More
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton is set to claim in a bombshell book that the president has committed “Ukraine-like transgressions” across his entire foreign policy, far beyond the alleged misconduct he was impeached for. He will also describe his attempts and those by “others in the administration to raise alarms about them”, […] More
