In the United States continues the scandal of the books of the former presidential adviser for national security John Bolton. Seeking to prevent the release of memoirs of a policy on store shelves, the White house filed a lawsuit in Federal court. Politics threaten charges of divulging state secrets.
the U.S. Department of justice, has filed an official lawsuit States that the release of the memoirs of John Bolton “the Room where it all happened: a memoir of the White house” should be delayed. The manuscript books must undergo additional testing in the national security Council because of suspicions that the text may contain information constituting a state secret.
laid off in September 2019 from the post of adviser to the President on national security due to political differences with trump and some members of his administration, John Bolton stands accused of flagrant violation of his signed undertaking not to disclose state secrets.
Anxiety trump and his entourage is connected, apparently, not only with concern for the preservation of state secrets, but that not yet released [but have fallen into the category of chubby bestselling memoirs (the book is over 500 pages) paints a rather unsightly appearance of the current occupant of the White house, which is quite unfortunate, given the approaching presidential elections.
“It’s a scathing portrait of the President who does not know even basic facts about the world, susceptible to blatant flattery on the part of authoritarian leaders, manipulative, and prone to false statements, dirty eruptions and hasty decisions,” – characterizes the book of John Bolton’s edition of the New York Times.
anyway, from reading the memoirs of Bolton we can draw some conclusions about the competence of the trump. Former assistant directly describes his former boss as the man “strange” and “stunningly ignorant”.
So, if you believe the memoirs of Bolton, the head of the superpower did not know that the main Euro-Atlantic soyuznik of America, the United Kingdom possesses nuclear weapons. If, during a meeting with head of the British government Teresa may trump surprised: “Oh, so you are a nuclear power?” According to Bolton, it is unlikely that it was a joke.
Bolton claims that trump has repeatedly confused the President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani and former President Hamid Karzai.
Leave much to be desired and the historical and geographical knowledge of the trump. Bolton argues that ahead of the meeting with President Putin in Helsinki, the American leader asked John Kelly, who was then as White house chief of staff, is Finland part of Russia – or “some kind of satellite”.
as for Russian politicians trump, the author of the memoirs says that the President in private okay, with the “extended grunt”, complained of anti-Russian sanctions and other punitive measures, although publicly they strongly advertised.
After the United States announced the first round of sanctions against Moscow in connection with the “business Skripal,” according to Bolton, trump has said that he wants to repeal these measures and believed that they were too hard on the President.
“trump told Pompeo to call Lavrov to say that” some bureaucrat” published sanctions,” writes Bolton.
Bolton also said that trump has stopped releasing statements criticizing Russia in connection with the tenth anniversary of war with Georgia. Former national security adviser writes that these actions were a reflection of “the difficulties of separating the tramp on his personal relations.”
According to Bolton, trump also claimed that Venezuela is a part of the United States. According to the book, in discussions about the overthrow of Nicolas Maduro, the President “insisted on the military option for Venezuela,” speaking to advisers that this country “is really part of the United States.” During a meeting at the Pentagon in March 2019 trump expressed concern to military authorities in connection with why USA are in Afghanistan and Iraq, not Venezuela.
Bolton says in his book that held under the chairmanship of trump’s weekly meetings in the oval office more like a fight in College than careful decision-making. “After these sessions, if I believed in yoga, I probably could use it,” writes Bolton.
a Former aide describes trump as a President who has little interest in exploring the work of the Federal government, but instead very focused on how decisions will be publicized in the media.
Obviously controversial nature described by Bolton episode for the trump communication with Chinese leader XI Jinping. It is alleged that during one of the conversations the US President supported the idea of si on the establishment of prison camps in Xinjiang, which, according to the West, the Chinese authorities “re-educate” the Uighurs-Muslims. According to the American translator who was present at the time of the conversation, the President allegedly said that si should continue the construction of the camps, which, according to trump, was “absolutely right”.
And during one of the talks, told Bolton during the meeting “big twenty” in June last year, in Osaka Japanese, trump allegedly directly asked XI Jinping to help him win the presidential election in the United States,
Speaking about the importance of the votes of the farmers of the Middle West, trump urged the Chinese leader to buy American agricultural equipment and products, promising in turn to cancel for China some of the tariffs, “He emphasized the important role of farmers and influence might have on the outcome of increased purchases of soybeans and wheat with China.”
When Chairman XI has complained that China is too often criticized in America, trump said that to blame the representatives of the democratic party.
also noteworthy is the episode relating to attempts to build bridges between Washington and Pyongyang.
Bolton says that trump has decided to fill up the Kim Jong-UN us gifts, including goods falling under the US imposed sanctions. But after meeting with North Korean leader, he instructed the Secretary of state personally to give Kim Jong Ynu disk Rocket Man Elton John autographed singer (“Rocketboom” trump called the leader of the DPRK during the deterioration of relations, but, when relations between the U.S. and North Korea began warming, the American President was to convince others that these words were simply an expression of the warmth of his feelings). However, Secretary of state Mike Pompeo was not able to convey the gift to Kim.
Bolton has openly hinted that the entourage of the President behind him can talk about him bad things and make fun of him. He describes trump’s meeting with Kim, in which North Korean leader blamed the previous administration for the problems existing in relations between Pyongyang and Washington. Kim Jong-UN told the President that they can dispel mistrust and quickly start nuclear agreement. After trump told Kim that he will seek Senate ratification of any agreement with North Korea, according to Bolton, Secretary of state Mike Pompeo handed him the Notepad. It was written the message: “He’s full of shit”. “I agreed,” says Bolton, noting that Kim promised not to conduct further nuclear tests. A month later, the author writes memoirs, Pompeo rejected presidential diplomacy in North Korea, saying that “the probability of success is zero.”
In his memoirs, Bolton talks about how in December 2018 trump has offered to help President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in connection with the investigation of the Ministry of justice in respect associated with Erdogan Turkish Bank, which was suspected of violating us sanctions against Iran. When the Turkish leader introduced Trump a note from law firm representing Halkbank, trump flipped through it, and then said he believes the Bank is absolutely not guilty of violating anti-Iran sanctions. Allegedly, trump told Erdogan that he “care” about it, and explained that prosecutors in the southern district “was not his people, and the people Obama”, and the problem will be solved when they will be replaced by his men.
This is only part of the unpleasant for the White house and personally trump the revelations contained within the controversial book written by a former member of the presidential team. And it is understandable why the President of the United States is so uptight about the release of the memoirs of Bolton. Their weight is directly proportional political weight of the author – never more about the mysteries trompowsky policy wrote a politician and so knowledgeable.
In his new book, Bolton holds the idea that the House of representatives in its investigation in the framework of the impeachment was to investigate activity of the President of trump not only in terms of pressure on Ukraine (and Bolton made it clear that the President told him about the intention to freeze military aid to Kiev until, until he will not start an investigation against Democrat Joe Biden and his son hunter), but also the many instances when he tried to use trade negotiations and criminal investigations to advance their political interests.
trump reacted on Twitter to the book of his ex-assistant, calling her “extremely tedious” and consists “of lies and false stories.” He walked by the author himself: “Exasperated by a dull fool, who only wanted to fight. Never had information, was an outcast and safely discarded. What a dunce!”
