Jason Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/30/john-bolton-has-finally-spoken-he-put-up-big-warning-sign-about-trump-north-korea/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 55 minutes ago, Jason said: lol. I hope he has the documents to back this up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Wow Bolton is the good guy!?!?! What dimension did I fall into!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 2 minutes ago, 2user1cup said: Wow Bolton is the good guy!?!?! What dimension did I fall into!? John Bolton is the deep state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 It's so funny that Trump is still trying to block this book when it's literally been printed and shipped. It's in the hands of reviewers already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 From the same article: Quote The request for electoral assistance from Xi is just one of many instances described by Bolton in which Trump seeks favors or approval from authoritarian leaders. Many of those same leaders were also happy to take advantage of the U.S. president and attempt to manipulate him, Bolton writes, often through simplistic appeals to his various obsessions. In one May 2019 phone call, for example, Russian President Vladimir Putin compared Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, part of what Bolton terms a “brilliant display of Soviet style proganda” to shore up support for Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Putin’s claims, Bolton writes, “largely persuaded Trump.” In May 2018, Bolton says, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan handed Trump a memo claiming innocence for a Turkish firm under investigation by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for violating Iranian sanctions. “Trump then told Erdogan he would take care of things, explaining that the Southern District prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people,” Bolton writes. So basically Trump has been manipulated by dictators by just being told "Obama wouldn't do this," or "These people are a threat...like Hillary Clinton." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 On 11/9/2019 at 11:21 PM, SlipperySlope said: Wow Bolton is the good guy!?!?! No, he's not. And don't let the #Resistance "liberals" convince you otherwise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 You know where Bolton could have revealed "classified" information about conversations with the president? A congressional hearing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 I don't give a shit about Bolton's book. He's doing this to make money--not to save the country. Otherwise, he'd have done it while he was in the White House. This is all just political pornography Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 yooooo susan collins hows that brow feeling ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 This would be on brand for Trump, how to make this 1000x worse for him? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said: This would be on brand for Trump, how to make this 1000x worse for him? Please do this. I want to see Trump go to court over the NDAs he's made everyone in the White House sign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Fretting about whether Bolton is "the good guy" is pointless. He can be a horrible human being and the information he provides still be useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 If John Bolton had his way, hundreds of thousands more people in the Middle East would perish. If he can't swing from the end of a rope with his windpipe crushed and piss running down his legs, I hope he's convicted of something, anything and rots in prison for the rest of his miserable life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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skillzdadirecta Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 This quote jumped out to me and is a textbook example of how Trump plays the media. Quote In November 2018, Trump came under fire for writing an unfettered defense of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, littered with exclamation points, over the killing of Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. But according to Bolton’s book, the main goal of the missive was to take away attention from a story about Ivanka Trump using her personal email for government business. “This will divert from Ivanka,” Trump said, according to Bolton’s book. “If I read the statement in person, that will take over the Ivanka thing.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 This also seems on brand for trump. Go ahead and do concentration camps, Xi, it's the right thing to do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 I can’t wait to pirate this book like I did the Anonymous book. I wonder if Bolton leaks who he thought Anonymous was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Trump said he wanted to execute journalists: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Uh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chakoo Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Bolton should be hauled before congress to be tarred and feathered. .... Then shot out of a cannon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxmatt Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 22 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Trump said he wanted to execute journalists: To be fair, writing a salacious and intentionally misleading book about Trump would be pretty easy. This quote being a prime example. Does this sound like Trump would say? Absolutely. But could Bolton completely make this up, and get people to believe it? Absolutely. And at the core, I believe that to be the issue. It doesn’t really matter (to some degree) whether he said it or not. Just the fact it’s believable is damning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimpleG Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 7 minutes ago, chakoo said: Bolton should be hauled before congress to be tarred and feathered. Catherine Wheel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbiggsly Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 That guy is way too cheerful when describing torture techniques Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Lololol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 3 hours ago, Emperor Diocletian II said: No, he's not. And don't let the #Resistance "liberals" convince you otherwise. I wasn't being serious! Also this is so old! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said: Lololol Bolton got mad that Trump didn't want to kill more brown people. I rest my case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted June 17, 2020 Author Share Posted June 17, 2020 Bolton always has and always will be a massive asshole. Just cause he is spraying his shit on Trump right now doesn't lessen the destruction he has wrought his entire career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Just now, thewhyteboar said: Bolton always has and always will be a massive asshole. Just cause he is spraying his shit on Trump right now doesn't lessen the destruction he has wrought his entire career. John Bolton's Patronus is a Chickenhawk. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhyteboar Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 You can't classify inaccurate information so great job on confirming everything in the book! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 11 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said: You can't classify inaccurate information so great job on confirming everything in the book! It's also already out in the hands of civilians. Wouldn't that just mean government officials or those with security clearances couldn't read it, but it's free reign for anyone else that already has their hands on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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