Vice President Mike Pence is a rare White House official not skewered in a memoir by former National Security Adviser John Bolton.
From China and Russia to Syria and Venezuela, Bolton andwanted to take hard lines against oppressive regimes while Trump sought to cut deals and appease totalitarian leaders, Bolton says in his memoir scheduled for release Tuesday.
Bolton, who was aware of efforts by Sondland and others to get Ukraine to investigate, wrote that he doesn’t recall “Sondland saying anything at that meeting” with Pence. Bolton and his supporters described the lawsuit as an effort to suppress the book and punish the author over the many criticisms of Trump.in an interview last week that Bolton"is a liar” and adding “everybody in the White House hated John Bolton.”
“I was still stunned at being excluded, but not more stunned than Pence, who was stoical throughout,” Bolton wrote. “He agreed to go down the hall to see Trump and find out if there was any way to reverse the decision, but there obviously was not,” Bolton wrote.Bolton, Trump’s third national security adviser, does give Pence credit for influencing the administration’s push for the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. During a meeting to discuss possible sanctions, a Pence aide said the vice president thought the administration should be “going all out” against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company.
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