Saying “I told you so,” Democrats touted 71-year-old former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s new book “The Room Where It Happened,” finally getting to retaliate against his former boss, ripping Trump for everything imaginable while serving under 74-year-old President Donald Trump from April 8, 2018 to Sept. 10, 2019. Bolton was fired by Trump for constantly shooting off his mouth to the press, sabotaging Trump’s efforts at diplomacy with North Korea, Russia, China, Iran and practically every other foreign leader. While Bolton presents himself as the “rational one,” he actually pushed Trump to intervene militarily in practically every part of the globe, especially the Middle East. Bolton was incensed when Trump didn’t confront Russia in Syria or China in the South China Sea, where the Peoples Republic of China builds airstrips and military bases in shallow-water archipelago.
Bolton’s new book gives Democrat and press everything they dreamed of and more ahead of the impeachment hearings. Bolton insists Trump made deals with 67-year-old Chinese Presisdent Xi Jinping to help his reelection, giving Xi the green light for concentration camps in China’s Muslim Uirghur community. Bolton insists Trump talked of executing U.S. journalists who didn’t reveal sources of leaked stories, accusing him of working for the Kremlin. Bolton’s outrageous claims were everything Democrats and the press wanted, giving the 24/7 anti-Trump media plenty of grist for radio and TV talk shows. Bolton insists in “The Room Where it Happened,” that all of Trump’s staff, including 56-year-old Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, derided him behind his back. Bolton said Trump backed the Saudis after they murdered 60-year-old Saudi-born Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump’s detractors point to the accuracy of Bolton’s book because he tries to prevent it from publication. Thousands of Bolton’s books have already been published ahead of its delayed Simon & Schuster June 21 release date. All major newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have been given galleys of the manuscript, letting the cat-out-of-the-bag to sabotage any attempt by the White House to stop the book’s publication. Bolton says Trump is not fit for duty, trying to send North Korea’s Kim Jong-un as copy of Elton John’s platinum album “Rocket Man,” a cutesy label Trump gave Kim when he was firing off ballistic missiles over Sea of Japan like July 4 fireworks. Bolton insists Trump didn’t know that the U.K. was a nuclear power or that Finland was an independent country from Russia. Bolton gives Trump’s critics all the red meat.
White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy 71-year-old Peter Navarro called Bolton’s book “revenge porn,” exactly what Democrats and the press wanted heading into the election. Navarro said the Attorney General was reviewing the manuscript to determine whether Bolton released classified material, something that could hurt U.S. national security. Bolton, as NSA, was supposed to hold the president’s conversations in confidence, not release a tell-all book to take revenge for getting fired. Whatever’s in Bolton’s book, the White House has plenty of ways to discredit the content. Tweeting out that Bolton’s “whacko,” a “sick puppy,” a “disgruntled boring fool” and a “dope” plays right into the media’s hands, showing Trump’s defensiveness. But it’s entirely appropriate when falsely accused to protest loudly to defend yourself from spurious allegations.
Trump didn’t pull any punches telling his side of the story. “When Wacko John Bolton went on Deface [Face] the Nation and so stupidly said that he looked at the ‘Libyan Model’ for North Korea, all hell broke out,” Trump said, showing why Bolton was unfit for duty as NSA. Libyan Model involved toppling Col. Muhammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli regime, something that made diplomacy with Kim Jong-un impossible. Yet the media buys in completely with Bolton’s fabrications to get back at Trump, but, more importantly, to sell books. Bolton, who doesn’t need the money, will become an instant millionaire if his book gets published June 21. “Many of the ridiculous statements he attributes to me were never made, pure fiction. Just trying to get even for firing him like the sick puppy he is!” Trump tweeted. Bolton shot off his mouth one too many times before Trump fired him Sept. 10, 2019.
Bolton’s book becomes the latest feeding frenzy for the anti-Trump press, hell-bent from keeping him from getting reelected. Pointing out with specificity why Bolton got fired shows that Trump is fully in charge of his wits, capable to discerning complex issues. Bolton’s arrogant enough to think that House impeachment managers led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) could have been more successful had they gotten the goods from him on Trump. Trump knows it’s hard to stop Bolton from getting his two minutes of fame, especially from the press looking for anything to sell advertising in the Covid-19 era. “The injunction as requested by the government would accomplish nothing,” said Simon & Schuster, Bolton’s book publisher. Simon & Schuster called Trump’s court filing “a frivolous, politically motivated exercise in futility,” knowing that the anti-Trump press already has all the goods.
