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Sat Jun 20, 2020, 08:03 PM Jun 2020

Beyond the bombshells: 5 other memorable takeaways from Bolton's book

Writing about his 17 months at the White House, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton characterizes him as "stunningly uninformed," ignorant of basic facts from geography to history, and easily manipulated by foreign adversaries.

If Bolton is to be believed, here are five memorable takeaways from "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir" -- beyond the bombshell headlines published so far:

Bolton was with President Trump at major foreign policy moments, including two summits between Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un in June 2018 in Singapore and February 2019 in Vietnam.

He says at their first summit, through interpreters, Trump was extremely complimentary of Kim, saying he saw the dictator "as really smart, quite secretive, a very good person, totally sincere, with a great personality."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/beyond-the-bombshells-5-other-memorable-takeaways-from-boltons-book/ar-BB15GnmR?li=BBnb7Kz

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