Bolton says he hopes Trump is 1-term president, warns country imperiled by his reelection

[alp227]

Source: ABC

President Donald Trump's longest-serving national security adviser John Bolton condemned his presidency as dangerously damaging to the United States and argued the 2020 election is the last "guardrail" to protect the country from him.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Bolton offered a brutal indictment of his former boss, saying, "I hope (history) will remember him as a one-term president who didn't plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral we can't recall from. We can get over one term -- I have absolute confidence, even if it's not the miracle of a conservative Republican being elected in November. Two terms, I'm more troubled about."

In the interview with ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz and in his new book, "The Room Where It Happened," Bolton paints Trump as "stunningly uninformed," making "erratic" and "irrational" decisions, unable to separate his personal and political interests from the country's, and marked and manipulated by foreign adversaries.

"I don't think he's a conservative Republican. I'm not going to vote for him in November -- certainly not going to vote for Joe Biden either. I'm going to figure out a conservative Republican to vote in," he told Raddatz.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bolton-hopes-trump-term-president-warns-country-imperiled/story?id=71320449

[pecosbob]

1. The guy that would take us to war with Iran is worried about Gump taking us into downward spiral

cool...

[Leghorn21]

2. Too little way too late fuck right off

Sincerely,

Sandy

[cstanleytech]

3. The Senate Republicans might have had no choice but to remove him had Bolton come forward and

revealed what Trump did rather than withhold the information for his book release so imo Bolton can go fuck himself.

[AlexSFCA]

4. bolton is one of the least credible people

his book won’t make a splash. None of the books did. Anyone who is even remotely considering for trump do not read books.

[Warpy]

7. I won't bother

WaPo had a pretty scathing review last night, especially about the end of the book, where he blames his failure to testify on Democrats who didn't want to get embroiled in a lengthy legal battle to drag him in there, realizing he'd be a hostile witness anyway, and then blaming them for not knowing everything he knew.

Yep, still a piece of shit, still blaming Democrats for everything he's done. He needs to shuffle off to some corporate yes man job and stop hurting this country.

[Gore1FL]

8. There is a leaked .pdf floating around

I am not advocating the downloading of copyrighted work, but it's out there and Bolton won't get your money.

[SunSeeker]

9. Here's the pdf of Bolton's book:

https://cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/105490203_262843801483358_5557222846304740364_n.pdf/The-Room-Where-It-Happened-2.pdf?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=0cab14&_nc_ohc=VhVcLXVxTEgAX-svEL5&_nc_ht=cdn.fbsbx.com&oh=13b1bf66c0342b1d401eee5e20d7545d&oe=5EF1B8A6&dl=1

[Warpy]

20. I'm not interested in reading more self serving crap from Republican crooks

I saw the link and I just didn't bother, I'd already read and heard enough from that man about how Democrats should have known everything he did.

Well, duh, asshole, that's why you should have testified in the House instead of pitching a fit through your lawyers. That was a chickenshit move on your part and we all know it.

[jayschool2013]

14. I read 90 pages

If the rest of the book is the same, it's a horribly written piece of self-fluffery in which he blames Obama for most everything, sides with Trump on just about every foreign policy issue, and then drops a negative statement or two about Trump's management style and unfitness for the job.

If you've read the reviews, you don't need to read a word more, but here's a sample of his self-congratulatory tone:

On
 the 
Monday 
after 
the 
Syria 
attack, 
I 
flew
 with
 Trump 
to 
Florida, 
taking
my 
first 
ride 
on 
Marine 
One 
from 
the 
South 
Lawn
 to 
Joint 
Base 
Andrews,
and 
then 
Air 
Force 
One 
to 
Miami. 
Our 
destination 
was 
nearby 
Hialeah 
for 
a
rally
 boosting
 Trump’s
 efforts
 to
 create
 a
 positive
 business
 climate.
 The
over-five-hundred-strong
 audience
 consisted
 largely
 of
 Cuban-
 and
Venezuelan-Americans,
 and
 when 
Trump 
introduced 
me, 
in 
the 
context 
of
the
 Syria
 strike,
 I
 got
 a
 standing
 ovation.
 (SNIP)

 I
 had 
long 
worked 
on 
these 
issues, 
and 
the 
crowd 
knew
it 
even 
if 
Trump 
didn’t. 


Bolton is a horse's ass' horse's ass. And he's a stunningly terrible and tedious writer. I'm pretty sure he had a Republican orgasm after writing the passage above.

[FakeNoose]

15. Thanks for the synopsis

I did download the book, and I plan on looking through it just for curiosity's sake.
But I'm happy to know I don't have to waste a lot of time on this.

[riversedge]

21. Trumps ego will

take a big hit if someone reads that to him

[JI7]

17. HE is an opportunist but that doesn't mean he isn't credible in what he says

and he really isn't saying anything that is surprising. Many of us already knows about Trump's corruption.

[sfstaxprep]

5. But He's Still Not Going To Vote For Biden

He's willing to waste his vote rather than give the satisfaction of voting for the only candidate capable of beating Drumpf.

Fuck Him and his book. I'm not watching a single interview.

[herding cats]

6. Note: This partisan hack still won't vote for Biden.

He said so at the end of the interview. You know, after he finished trashing on Democrats and Trump, but not holding Republicans feet to the fire for their complacency with Trump.

Fuck him and his book that brought this interview on.

[SunSeeker]

10. Hope he doesn't make a penny. Here's the pdf of Bolton's book:

https://cdn.fbsbx.com/v/t59.2708-21/105490203_262843801483358_5557222846304740364_n.pdf/The-Room-Where-It-Happened-2.pdf?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=0cab14&_nc_ohc=VhVcLXVxTEgAX-svEL5&_nc_ht=cdn.fbsbx.com&oh=13b1bf66c0342b1d401eee5e20d7545d&oe=5EF1B8A6&dl=1

[Retrograde]

11. You could have made him a half-term president

but lining your pockets writing a book was more important to you than testifying to Congress.

[thesquanderer]

18. Made no difference. The Senate already KNEW Trump had done wrong. They didn't care.

More proof that he had done things they didn't want to impeach him over wouldn't have changed anything.

[BlueMTexpat]

12. Of course, when he says that he

is not voting for Biden either, that = a vote FOR Trump.

He is dumber than a rock. Apologies to rocks.

[Larry Moecurley]

13. On the Other Hand. . .

Bolton defends not testifying: 'I don't think it would have made a difference'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/503827-bolton-defends-not-testifying-i-dont-think-it-would-have-made-a

Once a chickenhawk, always a chickenhawk!

[lark]

16. I hope almost no one buys his book and he has no profit from this.

He is a fucking traitor and I'm so happy someone downloaded his book on Twitter so no one has to pay. I won't read it because I don't want to waste the money to download this to paper & really don't care that much. I know for certain drumpf is an ignorant self serving criminal and traitor who hates the working class/poor, minorities and women and all Bolton has done is color in some of the pictures. If he had testified, I'd buy it to support him, but Bolton is a fascist as well and sold the country out for his own pocketbook, so fuck him big time.

[riversedge]

19. bolton clearly says he will not vote for Biden. yet there was a big fuss when someone

said bolton will vote for biden.

..........."I don't think he's a conservative Republican. I'm not going to vote for him in November -- certainly not going to vote for Joe Biden either. I'm going to figure out a conservative Republican to vote in," he told Raddatz.