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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Sun Jun 14, 2020, 10:17 PM Jun 2020

John Bolton made a tragic mistake. It's not the one you might think.

John Bolton made a mistake. It’s not the one you may think it is.

The former national security adviser’s memoir about his experiences working for President Trump will arrive on June 23. For months, the book has triggered criticism that Bolton put commercial profit over country by saving his depiction of Trump for the book, instead of providing it under oath during Trump’s impeachment proceedings last winter. A new wave of such criticism hit Bolton on Friday, when his publisher revealed more about what’s in the book.

In short: Trump is as bad as we thought, perhaps worse. According to the publisher, Bolton will describe Trump as “a president for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation.” Bolton even “argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump’s Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy.”

The response to this announcement was predictable — that, as Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) put it, Bolton “chose to sell books” when “the country needed him most.” Others echoed that criticism, and the Twitter hashtag #boycottbolton began trending.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/14/john-bolton-made-tragic-mistake-its-not-one-you-might-think/

The last paragraph of Conway's op-ed is the reveal...

Bolton was not as smart as the rest of us are.

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John Bolton made a tragic mistake. It's not the one you might think. (Original Post) Zorro Jun 2020 OP
Yep. Mr Smarty Pants thought he was going to testify.... FM123 Jun 2020 #1

FM123

(10,053 posts)
1. Yep. Mr Smarty Pants thought he was going to testify....
Mon Jun 15, 2020, 12:15 AM
Jun 2020
But Bolton made one fateful misjudgment. He overestimated the character, honor and patriotism of Senate Republicans. It would have taken just four, joining with Democrats, for the Senate to have issued a subpoena. But only two voted to hear Bolton testify.
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