Democrats and their friends in the press hope that 71-year-old former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s new book, “The Room Where It Happened,” damages 74-year-old Donald Trump’s chances of reelection But there are questions now about Bolton’s credibility, even though he’s been fully embraced by ABC News and other mainstream news outlets. Bolton’s managed to get his two minutes of fame from his 484-tome about his former boss, President Donald Trump. Bolton claims, among other things, that Trump wasn’t conc–erned about foreign policy, he was only concerned about his reelection, something the book aims to alter. Bolton hopes that his books scares off enough voters to hand the 2020 election to help former Vice President Joe Biden, someone Trump affectionately calls “Sleep Joe.”
Joe’s been a virtual gaffe machine since announcing for president April 25, 2019, sometimes unsure where he’s speaking. Only last week Joe said the George Floyd had a bigger worldwide impact than Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., antagonizing many African Americans with whom he’s counting on to win the presidency. Couple days before that, he told a Washtington D.C. radio hos Charlamagne tha God that “you ain’t black” if you don’t vote for him, prompting more racial controversy. Bdien’s been kept in the basement of his Rehoboth Beach, DE. Home where he does carefully scripted town hall meetings. His handlers have kept him as far away as possible from making more gaffes, something that could hurt his campaign. While Trump has called for more debates this fall, Biden’s team has agreed to only three.
Bolton hoped to release his book at the time of Trump’s impeachment trial, a farce when you consider the outcome in the Senate was never in doubt. Bolton thought revelations in his book would justify Democrats’ attempt to impeach Trump. Bolton’s book accuses Trump of making deals with Chinese President Xi Jinping to help his reelection. Bolton contends that Xi wrapped Trump around his little finger, leaving Trump vulnerable to China’s undue influence. Bolton accuses Trump of being weak on China, when most people think Trump has been very tough, forcing China to renegotiate old trade deals that practically sunk the stock market. Bolton’s claim that Trump was weak on China just doesn’t pass known media reports saying the opposite. Certainly Trump’s statements on the deadly coronavirus pandemic don’t look weak.
Insisting that Trump’[s infamous July 25, 2018 phone call with 41-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was small potatoes compared with other calls with 67-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinpinp, 67-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin and 36-year-old North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un were far more impeachable. Yet Bolton didn’t get a chance to testify at Trump’[s January 2020 impeachment proceedings. Democrat impeachment managers led by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) don’t think that Bolton’s revelations would have given them any better grounds for impeachment. Democrats hope that Bolton’s book will encourage former Trump employees to come out with more defamation. Problems with that is simple that many former Trump Cabinet or lower level officials have already denounced Trump.
Bolton says Trump’s corruption goes-long-and-far but nothing so far presented in the book is a revelation at all, things already said by many public officials. Trump’s recent denunciations by former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis and former Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly denounced Trump, primarily because Trump didn’t go along with former President Barack Obama’ies Iraq, Afghanistan and Syrian policies, telling the Pentagon that it’s foreign policy over the last 20 years has been all wrong. Trump famously got in trouble with the Bush family, denouncing the Iraq War before the 2016 presidential election. Since taking office, Trump has looked to scale down U.S. military involvements in the Mddle East, something Obama and Pentagon refused to do. Mattis and Kelly didn’t like getting fired for resisting Trump’s scaled down foreign policy.
Bolton’s brutal critiques of Trump are likely to fall on deaf ears from the left and the right as the election hears up. Biden finds himself in the unenviable position of throwing stones at Trump at a time when he’s vulnerable with respect to his role as anti-corruption boss for the Obama administration. When raising his 50-year-old son Hunte’sr $83,000 a month job for Ukraine’s Bursima Energy Holdings board, it raises more corruption issues for Biden. Biden hasn’t begun to face pointed claims by the Trump campaign that he arranged a sweet heart deal for his son, captitalizing on Ukraine corruption, when he was supposed to fix it. Bolton’s book takes many cheap shots at Trump, obvious revenge for getting fired by Trump Sept. 10, 2019. Trump faced the same retaliation from former FBI Director James Comey when Trump fired him May 9, 2018.
