John Bolton’s Lethal Chokehold on Trump

[Agent47]

That is if these excerpts to his yet to be released book is anything to go by:
Former national security adviser John Bolton alleges in his upcoming book that President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to increase agricultural purchases from the U.S. in order to improve his electoral prospects in farm states, the New York Times and Washington Post report, citing advance copies of the book.

The big picture: The book, which the Trump administration is suing Bolton to block, alleges several episodes in which the president's dealings with foreign leaders reflected an apparent single-minded desire to be re-elected. On several occasions, Bolton claims Trump expressing willingness to intervene in criminal investigations "to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked."

Highlights:

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  • In May 2018, Bolton writes that Turkish President Erdogan handed Trump a memo claiming that the state-owned bank Halkbank, which was under investigation by the Justice Department, was innocent. "Trump then told Erdogan he would take care of things, explaining that the Southern District prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people," Bolton writes.
  • Bolton writes that he scheduled a meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr in 2019 to discuss Trump's alleged enthusiasm for doing favors for autocrats, and that Barr agreed that he was worried about the appearances created by Trump's behavior.
  • In the advanced copy of the book obtained by the Times, Bolton claims that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped Bolton a note during Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un that commented on Trump, saying: “He is so full of shit.” Pompeo reportedly dismissed Trump's North Korea diplomacy as having "zero probability of success.”
  • In an essay adapted from his book published in the Wall Street Journal, Bolton writes: “One highlight came when Xi said he wanted to work with Trump for six more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him. Xi said the U.S. had too many elections, because he didn’t want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly."
  • "At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang," Bolton wrote. "According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. The National Security Council’s top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China."
  • "These and innumerable other similar conversations with Trump formed a pattern of fundamentally unacceptable behavior that eroded the very legitimacy of the presidency," Bolton continues. "Had Democratic impeachment advocates not been so obsessed with their Ukraine blitzkrieg in 2019, had they taken the time to inquire more systematically about Trump’s behavior across his entire foreign policy, the impeachment outcome might well have been different."

The bottom line: “I am hard pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” Bolton writes, according to the Post.




Highlights from the excerpts of John Bolton's book



More highlights

Early details are here from the John Bolton book that President Trump's legal threats are sending to the top of the bestseller lists.

The big picture: Bolton claims Trump asked China to help him win in 2020. He also throws his former colleagues under the bus and taunts Democrats for committing “impeachment malpractice.”

• Bolton had a reputation as a prolific note taker, filling yellow legal pad after yellow legal pad with notes.

Highlights from a copy obtained by the N.Y. Times' Peter Baker:

• Impeachment: Bolton says Democrats failed by focusing the probe on Ukraine rather than on other cases involving China and Turkey.
• Gossip: Bolton alleges Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped him a note calling Trump "full of shit" during a 2018 meeting with Kim Jong-un.
• Trump gaffes: Bolton alleges Trump didn't know the U.K. was a nuclear power and claims Trump asked if Finland was part of Russia.
• Journalists: Bolton alleges Trump privately told him reporters deserve prison. "These people should be executed. They are scumbags."

Bolton's own words, via an excerpt published in the WSJ:

• "Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome."
• "I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise."
• "At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do."
• "One of Trump’s favorite comparisons was to point to the tip of one of his Sharpies and say, 'This is Taiwan,' then point to the historic Resolute desk in the Oval Office and say, 'This is China.'”

Between the lines: House intel chair Adam Schiff, who led the Democratic impeachment probe, tweeted his commentary on the book: "When Bolton was asked, he refused, and said he’d sue if subpoenaed. Instead, he saved it for a book. Bolton may be an author, but he’s no patriot."

The bottom line: Bolton's book is scheduled to go public on June 23. The House impeachment vote was on Dec. 18.



John Bolton gets his revenge six months after Democrats needed him for impeachment

 

[Adonia]

Did you see page 165 where he writes: "President Trump routinely eats little children for breakfast. He has his underlings procure them from the slums of Brazil and they are transported into America via Air Force aircraft". Wow, what a revelation!

Beware my friend, Mr. Bolton's book is not the Bible. I would venture that there is a lot of errancy here, like 2 million dollars of errancy. For years the Democrats and assorted liberals have been telling us that Mr. Bolton is a terrible man and for once we should have believed them.

 

[Yeshua1]

That is if these excerpts to his yet to be released book is anything to go by:
Former national security adviser John Bolton alleges in his upcoming book that President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to increase agricultural purchases from the U.S. in order to improve his electoral prospects in farm states, the New York Times and Washington Post report, citing advance copies of the book.

The big picture: The book, which the Trump administration is suing Bolton to block, alleges several episodes in which the president's dealings with foreign leaders reflected an apparent single-minded desire to be re-elected. On several occasions, Bolton claims Trump expressing willingness to intervene in criminal investigations "to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked."

Highlights:

• 
  
  
  • In May 2018, Bolton writes that Turkish President Erdogan handed Trump a memo claiming that the state-owned bank Halkbank, which was under investigation by the Justice Department, was innocent. "Trump then told Erdogan he would take care of things, explaining that the Southern District prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people," Bolton writes.
  • Bolton writes that he scheduled a meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr in 2019 to discuss Trump's alleged enthusiasm for doing favors for autocrats, and that Barr agreed that he was worried about the appearances created by Trump's behavior.
  • In the advanced copy of the book obtained by the Times, Bolton claims that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped Bolton a note during Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un that commented on Trump, saying: “He is so full of shit.” Pompeo reportedly dismissed Trump's North Korea diplomacy as having "zero probability of success.”
  • In an essay adapted from his book published in the Wall Street Journal, Bolton writes: “One highlight came when Xi said he wanted to work with Trump for six more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him. Xi said the U.S. had too many elections, because he didn’t want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly."
  • "At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang," Bolton wrote. "According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. The National Security Council’s top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China."
  • "These and innumerable other similar conversations with Trump formed a pattern of fundamentally unacceptable behavior that eroded the very legitimacy of the presidency," Bolton continues. "Had Democratic impeachment advocates not been so obsessed with their Ukraine blitzkrieg in 2019, had they taken the time to inquire more systematically about Trump’s behavior across his entire foreign policy, the impeachment outcome might well have been different."

The bottom line: “I am hard pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” Bolton writes, according to the Post.




Highlights from the excerpts of John Bolton's book



More highlights

Early details are here from the John Bolton book that President Trump's legal threats are sending to the top of the bestseller lists.

The big picture: Bolton claims Trump asked China to help him win in 2020. He also throws his former colleagues under the bus and taunts Democrats for committing “impeachment malpractice.”

• Bolton had a reputation as a prolific note taker, filling yellow legal pad after yellow legal pad with notes.

Highlights from a copy obtained by the N.Y. Times' Peter Baker:

• Impeachment: Bolton says Democrats failed by focusing the probe on Ukraine rather than on other cases involving China and Turkey.
• Gossip: Bolton alleges Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped him a note calling Trump "full of shit" during a 2018 meeting with Kim Jong-un.
• Trump gaffes: Bolton alleges Trump didn't know the U.K. was a nuclear power and claims Trump asked if Finland was part of Russia.
• Journalists: Bolton alleges Trump privately told him reporters deserve prison. "These people should be executed. They are scumbags."

Bolton's own words, via an excerpt published in the WSJ:

• "Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome."
• "I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise."
• "At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do."
• "One of Trump’s favorite comparisons was to point to the tip of one of his Sharpies and say, 'This is Taiwan,' then point to the historic Resolute desk in the Oval Office and say, 'This is China.'”

Between the lines: House intel chair Adam Schiff, who led the Democratic impeachment probe, tweeted his commentary on the book: "When Bolton was asked, he refused, and said he’d sue if subpoenaed. Instead, he saved it for a book. Bolton may be an author, but he’s no patriot."

The bottom line: Bolton's book is scheduled to go public on June 23. The House impeachment vote was on Dec. 18.



John Bolton gets his revenge six months after Democrats needed him for impeachment

You must not have heard when president Obama told Russians to ease off for now, as can deal with you after win next election! ALL presidents do things to both serve ther USA and their own political interests!

 

[Revmitchell]

This is a nothing burger. It will not have any influence on the election. Bolton has no credibility. He had every chance to testify but didnt. DNC operatives are spreading out across the internet to post this

 

[Adonia]

This is a nothing burger. It will not have any influence on the election. Bolton has no credibility. He had every chance to testify but didnt. DNC operatives are spreading out across the internet to post this

No credibility and he is also a snake. Reports are that he had been taking notes at every meeting that he ever attended. The book was planned a long time in advance.

 

[Steven Yeadon]

"At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang," Bolton wrote. "According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. The National Security Council’s top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China."

If this is true and can be verified, then President Trump will never get my vote. Neither will Biden though. I'll vote third party. Still, that is a big "if."

Bolton saving all of this for a book instead of being a true patriot hurts his credibility. I'll do what works best, pray for guidance from the LORD.

 

[Agent47]

Bolton saving all of this for a book instead of being a true patriot hurts his credibility. I'll do what works best, pray for guidance from the LORD.

Oh yeah. He could have testified on the more explosive aspects instead of chiding Democrats for doing less.

I can’t think of any motivation other than $$$

 

[Agent47]

No credibility and he is also a snake. Reports are that he had been taking notes at every meeting that he ever attended. The book was planned a long time in advance.

taking notes is his character. That’s why he went all the way up and served three presidents. Try harder

 

[Agent47]

Did you see page 165 where he writes: "President Trump routinely eats little children for breakfast. He has his underlings procure them from the slums of Brazil and they are transported into America via Air Force aircraft". Wow, what a revelation!

Beware my friend, Mr. Bolton's book is not the Bible. I would venture that there is a lot of errancy here, like 2 million dollars of errancy. For years the Democrats and assorted liberals have been telling us that Mr. Bolton is a terrible man and for once we should have believed them.

if it’s full of lies why is Mr. Stormy Daniels so desperate to stop its publication? Shouldn’t he wait and sue Bolton to his last dime?

 

[Steven Yeadon]

No credibility and he is also a snake. Reports are that he had been taking notes at every meeting that he ever attended. The book was planned a long time in advance.

I've been told by professors that taking tons of handwritten notes is common practice in top secret environments. We aren't allowed electronic devices or recordings. Just being informative, obviously "St. Benjamin" is Bolton' s god.

 

[Adonia]

taking notes is his character. That’s why he went all the way up and served three presidents. Try harder

Well, he must've erred in taking his notes. He said Mike Pompeo sent him a note saying bad things about President Trump. Mr. Pompeo denies this. He said President Trump "begged" Emperor Xi of China to buy American stuff so he could win re-election, meanwhile our trade representative who was at the same meeting never witnessed such a thing. Lies, lies, and more lies. .

 

[Yeshua1]

if it’s full of lies why is Mr. Stormy Daniels so desperate to stop its publication? Shouldn’t he wait and sue Bolton to his last dime?

Presidents always seek to block top secret info from leaking out!

 

[StefanM]

I don't know how much of Mr. Bolton's book is true. I don't trust him, though.

What I do know is that his failure to voluntarily testify during the pre-impeachment hearings in the House indicates that his motives aren't pure. His attacking the Democrats for their failure to pursue additional information during impeachment proceedings would be a valid attack if he were not the very person responsible for withholding the information.

If you truly think that a President is as dangerous to the republic as Mr. Bolton seems to suggest, you take every opportunity you can to "do the right thing." That means that he shouldn't have demanded that his testimony be compelled by court order. He should have been willing to testify voluntarily, leaving the legal onus on the Trump administration to try to block him.

Then again, if he had disclosed all the information voluntarily, he wouldn't have had anything left for the book. It's sickening how obvious Bolton is in his pursuit of cash with this endeavor.

 

[Agent47]

Well, he must've erred in taking his notes. He said Mike Pompeo sent him a note saying bad things about President Trump. Mr. Pompeo denies this. He said President Trump "begged" Emperor Xi of China to buy American stuff so he could win re-election, meanwhile our trade representative who was at the same meeting never witnessed such a thing. Lies, lies, and more lies. .

he erred because Pompeo denied?
You got jokes

 

[Agent47]

I don't know how much of Mr. Bolton's book is true. I don't trust him, though.

What I do know is that his failure to voluntarily testify during the pre-impeachment hearings in the House indicates that his motives aren't pure. His attacking the Democrats for their failure to pursue additional information during impeachment proceedings would be a valid attack if he were not the very person responsible for withholding the information.

If you truly think that a President is as dangerous to the republic as Mr. Bolton seems to suggest, you take every opportunity you can to "do the right thing." That means that he shouldn't have demanded that his testimony be compelled by court order. He should have been willing to testify voluntarily, leaving the legal onus on the Trump administration to try to block him.

Then again, if he had disclosed all the information voluntarily, he wouldn't have had anything left for the book. It's sickening how obvious Bolton is in his pursuit of cash with this endeavor.

But had he testified many would have read sour grapes. Why did he take so long to save America?

As long as Bolton trains his eyes on Trump , Trump fans will nitpick whatever he says. I think one ought to separate motivation for the book from facts. Facts matter more than his motives.

Why is Trump so determined to stop publishing? The book is embarrassing as it rightly portrays him as dumb

 

[Revmitchell]

But had he testified many would have read sour grapes. Why did he take so long to save America?

As long as Bolton trains his eyes on Trump , Trump fans will nitpick whatever he says. I think one ought to separate motivation for the book from facts. Facts matter more than his motives.

Why is Trump so determined to stop publishing? The book is embarrassing as it rightly portrays him as dumb

You only post this stuff because you are a good little DNC operative

 

[Adonia]

The book is embarrassing as it rightly portrays him as dumb

Yep, the President is so dumb his policies gave us record employment, with the highest ever in the black community, the highest ever among black youth, the highest ever among Hispanics and the highest ever amongst the rest of the population. Plus, the return of companies from abroad. Boy, that Trump is a real dummy for sure.

 

[Agent47]

You only post this stuff because you are a good little DNC operative

that’s so yesterday and stale. Try more creativity.


Can’t wait for my copy!
Step aside Stormy Daniels

 

[Yeshua1]

that’s so yesterday and stale. Try more creativity

Does Soros pay by the post or word?

 

[Revmitchell]

that’s so yesterday and stale. Try more creativity.


Can’t wait for my copy!
Step aside Stormy Daniels

Really? Is that all you got?