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Trump administration sues Bolton over book dispute

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K1052 said:
Not a surprise but man

https://twitter.com/x/status/1273328516982026245
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This is why I have been saying a second term of Trump spells doom, literal doom, for democracy in America. With all of Trump's public pronunciations and behavior containing a legion of red flags that this man is a corrupt autocrat, it shouldn't be surprising that things he says behind closed doors are even worse, and even more reflective of his actual intentions.
 
UNCjigga said:
Remember back in January/February when Trump extolled Xi Jinping for his handling of Coronavirus, but then abruptly changed his tune the next month and threatened to take action against China for lying about the virus??

Yeah, about that....


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What a massive ... Hahaha the worlds biggest military’s power has its foreign policy for sale... wholesale... for one single persons benefit. What a joke.

And fuck Bolton for not coming forth with this shit when it mattered... its like reverse Patriotism... screw over a fuckton million people cause FYGM book deal lined up. Every single Trumplandia critter is 100% in it for them selves.
 
NY Times:

Mr. Bolton describes several episodes where the president expressed willingness to halt criminal investigations “to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked,” citing cases involving major firms in China and Turkey. “The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn’t accept,”

Bolton had the chance to do the right thing and appear before the House impeachment inquiry. He put his future book sales before his concern for the nation. If his book convinces some not to vote for Twitface, then fine.

But....If Bolton said Trump was the devil before the House impeachment inquiry it would not have mattered. The GOP was not going to remove Trump.
 
VRAMdemon said:
NY Times:

Mr. Bolton describes several episodes where the president expressed willingness to halt criminal investigations “to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked,” citing cases involving major firms in China and Turkey. “The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn’t accept,”

Bolton had the chance to do the right thing and appear before the House impeachment inquiry. He put his future book sales before his concern for the nation. If his book convinces some not to vote for Twitface, then fine.

But....If Bolton said Trump was the devil before the House impeachment inquiry it would not have mattered. The GOP was not going to remove Trump.
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No GOP would not, but the truth matters. It just does.
 
A NYT article listing points allegedly made in Bolton's book:


I'm sure there is a lot of meat there (except for Bolton's claim the House Dems committed impeachment malpractice by not impeaching Trump for everything they could-that's pure nonsense, a new charge would have to be filed every day and Trump would stall it forever).

I will admit I totally disagree with just about every position Bolton has held, but his conduct in this impeachment process is very Trump-like. Instead of placing the country's interest first and testifying-or at least publicly announcing what he knew and thus forcing Senate GOP to take testimony, Bolton instead preserved it all for his self-benefit, the riches this book will give him. He filed suit against the House, claiming they couldn't subpoena him, successfully stalling it long enough to avoid testifying. When it came to the Senate trial, he didn't leak a word, but said he would testify if subpoenaed-thus placing the decision solely withing the bounds of Senate GOP.

F*ck him, he wasn't an adult in the room as he claims, he is just Trump with a bushy mustache and a claim to intellectual credence. .
 
Finland not part of Russia and GB has nukes? Really? Also, NATO?

Fuck, Putin is like a master mind villain straight out of a bond movie.

Where the fuck is 007?
 
K1052 said:
If the idea was to paint Biden as a pawn of China in the election that's flown out the window, down the street, and is hailing an Uber to the airport for a trip to a non-extradition country.
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I still dont see how they could have painted biden with that, even before these hilariously disturbing excerpts
 
evident said:
I still dont see how they could have painted biden with that, even before these hilariously disturbing excerpts
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Especially with all the crazy fawning stuff Trump has said about and to Xi over the years as late as Feb of this year. It never made a lot of sense to me but they seemed to be intent that it could be done.

Then again the political genius of Trump and his campaign may have been somewhat overstated.
 
I can't find where I just read it but apparently the orange menace didn't know that U.K. was a nuclear
power and he thought Finland was, part of Russia/or under Russian control.

We have a a bunker-boy with the education of a 6th grader running the country.
FFS!


found this :
www.businessinsider.in

Trump didn't know Britain was a nuclear power and inquired whether Finland was part of Russia, according to John Bolton's bombshell memoir

National security adviser John Bolton paints a damaging and unflattering picture of Trump in his new book, according to The New York Times.
www.businessinsider.in www.businessinsider.in
 
www.wsj.com

John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy

The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own re-election prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses.
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From the Wall Street Journal:

In Buenos Aires on Dec. 1, at dinner, Xi began by telling Trump how wonderful he was, laying it on thick. Xi read steadily through note cards, doubtless all of it hashed out arduously in advance. Trump ad-libbed, with no one on the U.S. side knowing what he would say from one minute to the next.

One highlight came when Xi said he wanted to work with Trump for six more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him. Xi said the U.S. had too many elections, because he didn’t want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly.
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All it takes is a few nice words and Trump will give away the farm. And the return of the "some people are saying" quote. Nobody is saying we need to abolish the term limit.

China comes in fully prepared to feed his ego and vanity. They know exactly what it takes to get him to support their positions. And this fucking idiot comes in unprepared and adlibs it all. Jesus christ, I don't know what to say.
 
BlueWeasel said:
www.wsj.com

John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy

The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own re-election prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com

From the Wall Street Journal:



All it takes is a few nice words and Trump will give away the farm. And the return of the "some people are saying" quote. Nobody is saying we need to abolish the term limit. Jesus christ, I don't know what to say.
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In Trump’s defense, “some people” apparently “are saying” we should abolish term limits—but those people are Jinping, Putin, Jong Un, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Mohammed bin Salman... you get the picture.
 
esquared said:
I can't find where I just read it but apparently the orange menace didn't know that U.K. was a nuclear power and he thought Finland was, part of Russia/or under Russian control.
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I would say unbelievable but, sadly, statements like that by Trump are now commonplace.
 
Watching MTP daily. Everybody's got their copy now, and reading excerpts. Says Pompeo passed him a note at some meeting that said (about Trump) "He's so full of shit".
 
UNCjigga said:
Did anyone catch Maddow the other day talking about how Trump signing an EO to keep meat processing plants open during Covid did nothing to help domestic supply as instead allowed record meat exports to China???

Hmmm....
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IIRC Smithfeild was bought out by a Chinese firm, he might have had no legal avenue to stop them from exporting.
 
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