Donald Trump's former adviser John Bolton accuses him of seeking Chinese aid for re-election

A lawsuit was launched Tuesday by the US government to block the publication, scheduled for June 23, of John Bolton's book.

Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton accuses the President of seeking Chinese aid to win re-election in November, according to explosive extracts from a forthcoming book, published by of the American media, Wednesday June 17.

The ex-adviser says that in June 2019, Donald Trump had "diverted the conversation on the next presidential election, by alluding to the economic capacity of China and by pleading with Xi so that he makes sure that he wins ", according to excerpts published simultaneously by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post ().

During this meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, the American president "stressed the importance of farmers and the increase in Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat on the result of the election", wrote in his memoirs this republican hawk, hostile to multilateralism and willingly goes to war.
Trump administration wants to block John Bolton book

Press leaks occur the day after Trump's legal action was announced to try to block the scheduled June 23 publication of this book, The Room Where It Happened, A White House Memoir.

"Trump's conversations with Xi reflect not only the inconsistencies in his trade policy but also the interconnection in Trump's mind between his own political interests and the American national interest," said John Bolton, 71, national security from April 2018 to September 2019.

"This and countless other similar conversations with Trump have confirmed fundamentally unacceptable behavior that erodes the very legitimacy of the presidency," he accuses.

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So, do you think it's true? As simple as that.

MAGA

It is totally believable, and not even the least bit surprising. Censor free speech, unless it's us. It's unfair, unless it's us.

It's an insane merry-go-round.

I'll gladly purchase the book. It'll be interesting to see people like Goomshill justify the nonsense.

Bolton has been one of the most garbage people in politics for quite some time now.
An unhinged warmonger with no credibility.
I wouldn't trust a word he says without strenuous verification. Especially when he has the clear incentive to 'trump' up claims to make a profit off his book.
Trump should have taken others' advice and not appointed him in the first place.

Unsurprising to see the deep state loyalists eager to throw their money and support behind this book.

Do I think Trump engaged in diplomatic talks with the Chinese government? Yes of course.
And do I think the Trump (rightly) connects the well-being of the country with his political aspirations?
Sure. Americans doing well is good for incumbents. This doesn't make it a bad thing to seek out policies you think are good for the country.

Yes politicians make decisions that are affected by their desire to win reelection among other things, rather than purely based on what is good and just policy. That is one of the many downsides of government.

Does engaging in diplomacy mean he is "seeking Chinese aid for re-election"?
Thats a wildly misleading assertion in the absence of proof.

Republicans love double think and now book burning.

one more "best people" that will suddenly become dishonest and biased now that he states things anti trump.
mental gymnastics 2020

This post was edited by theCrossbones on Jun 17 2020 11:59pm

Many Trump supporters were always highly sceptical of Bolton or considered his appointment a bad idea from the get go. It really wasnt hard to see that the neocon warmonger and swamp creature would be a bad fit for the isolationist President who wants the U.S. to bring as many troops back home as possible.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jun 18 2020 12:07am

there were also many the welcomed him on the R.
My point is ANOTHER person is saying the guy is a disaster.. and here comes the defense team on cue

WaPo link:

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

List of claims by Bolton:


Tweeting and publicly voicing support for MBS in the aftermath of the Khashoggi murder to distract from Ivanka's emails on an unsecured device
Saying journalists are bad people who should be shot or imprisoned until they reveal sources
Buying Putin's manipulations about Maduro because he compared Guaidó to Hillary Clinton
Putting Jared Kushner on the phone with Turkey's finance minister because they were both the leaders' sons-in-law, although he had no qualifications other than nepotism
Telling Erdogan and Xi he would make investigations of Turkish and Chinese companies go away once he got "his people" in offices like the Southern District of New York (this caused Bolton to meet with Barr, who agreed it was troubling)
Violating US sanctions on North Korea (which had to be waived) to give Kim presents including a signed copy of Elton John's "Rocket Man"
Planning to withdraw from NATO, only to be talked down
Not knowing the UK had nuclear arms
Wondering if Finland was part of Russia
Saying an invasion of Venezuela would be cool and that Venezuela is basically part of the US
Voicing support for Uyghur concentration camps in China's Xinjiang
Claiming to Xi he had a lot of internal support for serving more than two terms
Trying to get Japan to help him on a deal with Iran
Being wishy-washy and sloppy about whether to bomb Iran in 2019 after it shot down a drone
Saying he wants to "get out [militarily] from everywhere," without nuance, including allied countries
Saying the US should let Russia take care of the Islamic State, thereby ceding influence in the region to Russia
Having Jared Kushner personally call the Mexican government to negotiate an end to the caravans Republicans feared in 2018
Being constantly mocked behind his back by his own advisors, including the ones who appear most loyal to him, like Pompeo (who passed Bolton a note at the North Korean summit saying Trump was "so full of shit," according to the NYT) and Mnuchin


How bad is it when none of these being true would actually surprise me?