Looking for Book Money — Not Trump Accountability
Interested
in the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Yeah, just don’t ask John Bolton since big, big money
in it for him (or so he thinks), otherwise, his book won’t sell, so look
someplace else for the truth, or so he implies.
My supposition on that comes
from this truly an astonishing story from
the Guardian.
What follows are the highlights with this headline:
Bolton
book claims Trump committed other
“Ukraine-like
transgressions”
The ex-national security adviser also describes attempts to “raise
alarms about them,” according to press release about his memoir
Introduction from the article:
Bolton will
argue in his book, “The Room Where It
Happened,” that the Democrat-led House of Representatives committed “impeachment malpractice by impeaching Trump
over his Ukraine dealings when, it is suggested in the book, the president had committed other Ukraine-like
transgressions.” (More on that is below)
The press
release for the book teases that Bolton will describe the transgressions.
New York
publishers Simon & Schuster boasted: “This
is the book Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read.”
The White
House fought to block the book, claiming back in January that it contained
classified information. The book is now due out June 23, 2020.
Bolton was ousted last
September after months of disagreement over America’s foreign policy approach,
especially Trump’s freewheeling ways, amid revelations of searing internal
divisions within Trump’s inner circle.
Trump said he had “disagreed strongly”
with Bolton, who claimed he was in the process of resigning when Trump moved to
fire him.
According to the press release on June
12, the new book: “Argues that the House Democrats committed
impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on
Ukraine when Trump’s Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range
of his foreign policy – and Bolton documents exactly what those were,
and attempts by him and others in the administration to raise alarms about them.”
Bolton criticizes Trump for
focusing on his chances of re-election as he made major policy decisions,
writing: “I am hard-pressed to identify any
significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by re-election
calculations.”
My 2 cents, and this
key point from this article: Critics will probably pounce on Bolton (and rightly so) for
not publicly raising concerns about these “transgressions” while they were
occurring – and later refusing to testify to the House about them during the impeachment
inquiry.
That is 100% correct and at the time Bolton refused to testify
many people predicted he was simply hyping his book for big sales. Thus, in my view and that of many other, Bolton has shown how greedy he is for
putting book sales above the truth about serious Trump misdeeds.
Had Bolton told the truth
then and Trump had been removed (and rightly so if Bolton were telling the
truth), then he would be a national hero and the book would have sold like hot
cakes.
Now I hope it does not sell well. Bolton deserves that
kind of shame for putting money and profit over the historical truth of this
corrupt and totally dishonest president who duped the country for a very long time.
Bolton now says he knew that all along, but it is clear he waited to see the book selling before telling the public and Congress the truth. So, shame on him for that.
If find a copy of his book, I will shred and burn it
without a second thought.
Thanks for stopping
by.
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