Quote (balrog66 @ Jun 18 2020 05:09pm)

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?

Quote (balrog66 @ Jun 18 2020 03:09am)

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?

Quote (ofthevoid @ 18 Jun 2020 08:50)

The swiftness with which this came out it’s almost as if he started this book as soon as he got the job. 😂

I would take everything he’s saying with a grain a salt tbh. Obviously the guys is sour that trump didn’t send soldiers to various places to slaughter brown people.

Quote (excellence @ Jun 18 2020 08:55am)

leaks pretty much stopped cold when he got canned too :rofl: And yeah Bolton was absolutely livid we didn’t get into another campaign to destroy another Middle East nation and it’s citizens

Quote (IceMage @ 18 Jun 2020 09:24)

It's funny how cultists pretend there's such a wide gulf between Trump's foreign policy vision and Bolton's. Bolton loves the fact that we pulled out of the Iran deal... he's thrilled we've adopted a hawkish position, including killing Qasem Soleimani. He loves that Trump keeps pulling out of international agreements, that he's bloated the defense budget, that he's arming the Saudis in Yemen. Sure, he'd prefer an even more hawkish position, but stop pretending Trump is Rand Paul.