Washington Post publishes more details from Bolton's book.

[highplainsdem]

This is in addition to the NYT's story about the book this afternoon, which I posted about in LBN:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142516929



WaPo article:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-help-him-win-reelection-according-to-bolton-book/2020/06/17/d4ea601c-ad7a-11ea-868b-93d63cd833b2_story.html

After Trump completed a phone call with South Korea’s president ahead of the 2018 Singapore summit with North Korea, Pompeo and Bolton shared their disdain for the president’s handling of the conversation, he writes. Pompeo, having listened in on the call from the Middle East, told Bolton he was “having a cardiac arrest in Saudi Arabia.” Bolton shared his similar disappointment with the call, describing it as a “near death experience.”

Bolton attributes a litany of shocking statements to the president. Trump said invading Venezuela would be “cool” and that the South American nation was “really part of the United States.” Bolton says Trump kept confusing the current and former presidents of Afghanistan, while asking Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to help him strike a deal with Iran. And Trump told Xi that Americans were clamoring for him to change the constitutional rules to serve more than two terms, according to the book.

He also describes a summer 2019 meeting in New Jersey where Trump says journalists should be jailed so they have to divulge their sources: “These people should be executed. They are scumbags,” Trump said, according to Bolton's account.

-snip-

In November 2018, Trump came under fire for writing an unfettered defense of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, littered with exclamation points, over the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. But according to Bolton’s book, the main goal of the missive was to take away attention from a story about Ivanka Trump using her personal email for government business.

“This will divert from Ivanka,” Trump said, according to Bolton’s book. “If I read the statement in person, that will take over the Ivanka thing.”

-snip-

[grumpyduck]

1. Hee hee hee, sue away, you scumbag.

You can't put the horse back in the barn.

[Brother Buzz]

8. There are a shitload of advanced copies already out there

'Death by a thousand cuts' comes to mind because nuggets from the book will get leaked every news cycle. Drip, drip, drip.

[jls4561]

2. Isn't it touching that he was thinking of his baby girl while a journalist

was being brutally dismembered?

[dawg day]

10. Well, who else is he going to think about when he's so excited?

At his age, can't let a thrill go to waste.

[Paladin]

3. Thanks, Bolton, for doing the bare minimum to rid us of the trump crime family.

Now that you've got that $2 million stashed away and your book about to ship out, now you get all loquacious on us, trying to spread the blame. Thanks for nothing.

[Mike 03]

4. And all this time we thought Pompeo was a "true believer"

From the NYT:

Mr. Trump did not seem to know, for example, that Britain is a nuclear power and asked if Finland is part of Russia, Mr. Bolton writes. He came closer to withdrawing the United States from NATO than previously known. Even top advisers who position themselves as unswervingly loyal mock him behind his back. During Mr. Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korea’s leader, according to the book, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped Mr. Bolton a note disparaging the president, saying, “He is so full of shit.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/politics/bolton-book-trump-impeached.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20200617&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=50692058&segment_id=31156&user_id=023573c5d55e5cc08299abdc2913a988

[elleng]

5. Thanks

[malaise]

6. I knew the book was everywhere since last week

Once it reached the warehouses it was open season.

Come on ReTHUGs devour one another

[highplainsdem]

7. Stephen Colbert was showing off his copy last night, but admitted he hadn't read it yet. Bolton

will be one of his guests next week.

[dawg day]

9. It's always breathtaking-- how little Trump cares about the country-

And how many enablers he gets to go along with him.

[captain queeg]

11. Fox attacks rolled out tonite followed by major tweet storm.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Both of these books coming out at the same time just might push him over the edge.

They are both going to be much more damning than anything that has come out up until now. And I don't think there is a thing he can do to stop either one of them.