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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
Trump fired Steve Linick at recommendation of Mike Pompeo President has removed series of independent oversight officials Steve Linick leaves a briefing at the Capitol in Washington last year. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Members of three House and Senate committees will on Wednesday interview Steve Linick, the state department inspector general who was fired abruptly by […] More
As US-China relations deteriorate, Barry Gewen offers an unsparing biography of a man still at the center of events The Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, shakes hands with the former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November. Photograph: Jason Lee/Pool/EPA Only two of America’s secretaries […] More
President has used ambassadorships to reward rich, inexperienced supporters, figures show, including hotelier and designer Gordon Sondland testifies before the House intelligence committee in November. Trump appointed the hotelier ambassador to the EU. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP Donald Trump has gifted a record proportion of ambassadorial posts to political appointees, rewarding wealthy supporters with minimal experience […] More
