John Bolton's new book portrays a president who is single-minded about pursuing and preserving his own interests. 'I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn't driven by re-election calculations,' he writes.
Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Sept. 30, 2019 in Washington, DC.Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Sept. 30, 2019 in Washington, DC.
When impeachment moved to the Senate for trial, Bolton volunteered to testify and was not called. A cynic might say Bolton made himself available knowing there was no chance Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would let him be called to testify — or any other witnesses, for that matter — before dialing up an acquittal vote on all articles of impeachment.
Bolton tells us he was on the July 25 phone call Trump made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the call that led an anonymous whistleblower to initiate the process that became Trump's impeachment. He says he did not think Trump's comments in the call reflected any major change in direction. One reason that might be right: Even if Bolton had convinced the Senate Republicans that Trump had misused his office, Trump's defenders would still have their fallback argument that Trump's offense was not serious enough to compel his removal from office.
against President Richard Nixon at the outset of the Watergate hearings in 1973 opened the door to proceedings that did in fact drive Nixon from office. But as one top-level appointee after another departed the White House, Bolton was called in to take over. And that he did. He wants us to know about everything he worked on, so we do not get to the Ukraine dramatics until the penultimate chapter of this book, preceded by 13 chapters walking us through the author's myriad encounters with world leaders and deeply complex problems.
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