Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Sen. Mike Braun: 'Why don't you tell us what Officer Rolfe should've done when this man fired a Taser at him?'

Sen. Mike Braun: 'Why don't you tell us what Officer Rolfe should've done when this man fired a Taser at him?'


Sen. Mike Braun: 'Why don't you tell us what Officer Rolfe should've done when this man fired a Taser at him?'

Posted: 29 Jun 2020 09:42 PM PDT

Braun argued Monday that unless Republican lawmakers work to change the system, "Democrats are going to spin it" to their benefit in the November elections. "Chuck Schumer has already decided he...

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Monday, June 29, 2020

Pics and clips from another hateful ANGRY weekend

Pics and clips from another hateful ANGRY weekend


Pics and clips from another hateful ANGRY weekend

Posted: 28 Jun 2020 08:02 PM PDT

Democrats have gotten reelected for decades on end to run big American cities. Many mayors and police chiefs are minorities. If "systemic racism" is rampant in America, how does that explain the...

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The Trump Crackdown Begins: Seattle's Democrati leaders' attempts to dismantle CHOP 'autonomous zone' have been unsuccessful

Posted: 28 Jun 2020 07:10 PM PDT

On Monday, Democratic leadership announced their intention to put an end to CHOP after two recent shootings -- one of which was deadly. However, Seattle Police Officers Guild President Mike Solan...

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Saturday, June 27, 2020

President Donald Trump signs executive order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues

President Donald Trump signs executive order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues


President Donald Trump signs executive order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues

Posted: 27 Jun 2020 02:55 AM PDT

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he signed an executive order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues and threatened those who try to pull them down with "long prison...

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Former national security adviser John Bolton calls Pres. Trump’s alleged pursuit of personal over national interest “disturbing.”

Posted: 26 Jun 2020 07:37 PM PDT

Co-host Sunny Hostin directly tackled the question of Trump's alleged quid pro quo with Ukraine, the subject of his impeachment trial. "It is your understanding then that President Trump wanted...

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Friday, June 26, 2020

Former GOP candidate Carly Fiorina says she'll vote for Biden and she’s also disappointed in Ted Cruz supporting Trump

Former GOP candidate Carly Fiorina says she'll vote for Biden and she’s also disappointed in Ted Cruz supporting Trump


Former GOP candidate Carly Fiorina says she'll vote for Biden and she’s also disappointed in Ted Cruz supporting Trump

Posted: 25 Jun 2020 09:50 PM PDT

Former 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina says she'll support Joe Biden over President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, calling the presumptive Democratic standard-bearer a person...

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Republicans 'trying to get away with murder' of George Floyd

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Republicans 'trying to get away with murder' of George Floyd


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Republicans 'trying to get away with murder' of George Floyd

Posted: 24 Jun 2020 07:11 PM PDT

 Nancy Pelosi asserted in an interview Tuesday that Republicans are "trying to get away with murder, actually -- the murder of George Floyd" -- marking a dramatic escalation in rhetoric as the...

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe says President Trump doesn’t appear to want to win reelection

Posted: 24 Jun 2020 06:12 PM PDT

Is Trump someone who wants to win re-election? "This does not look like a man who wants to win, who wants to be reelected," Scarborough said, pointing to recent controversies such as Trump...

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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Andy McCarthy calls firing of US Attorney Geoffrey Berman 'much ado about nothing'

Andy McCarthy calls firing of US Attorney Geoffrey Berman 'much ado about nothing'


Andy McCarthy calls firing of US Attorney Geoffrey Berman 'much ado about nothing'

Posted: 23 Jun 2020 09:29 PM PDT

In an interview on "America's Newsroom" with host Ed Henry, the Fox News contributor pointed out that Berman was simply an interim attorney "essentially keeping the seat warm" until a fully-appointed...

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President Trump hints at 'generous' second coronavirus stimulus check. Here's how much you could get

Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:56 PM PDT

President Trump was asked directly in an interview on Scripps TV Monday morning whether he had ordered his staff to slow testing, which had drawn sharp criticism from health experts. Pausing before...

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The View co-host Joy Behar says she and her husband drive around looking for people not wearing masks

Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:38 PM PDT

Joy Behar revealed on Tuesday that she regularly spends time looking at people who are walking around without masks during the coronavirus pandemic. "I don't have much faith that this is going...

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The View co-host Sunny Hostin: 'Think twice' before defending Washington, Roosevelt statues; we were taught 'revisionist history'

Posted: 23 Jun 2020 10:03 AM PDT

Sunny Hostin suggested that perhaps the removal of statues beyond Confederate figures should be considered since "revisionist history" inaccurately taught Americans the reality of our nation's...

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Crowd tries toppling Andrew Jackson statue, creates 'CHAZ'-themed zone

Crowd tries toppling Andrew Jackson statue, creates 'CHAZ'-themed zone


Crowd tries toppling Andrew Jackson statue, creates 'CHAZ'-themed zone

Posted: 22 Jun 2020 08:33 PM PDT

Seattle's peaceful 'summer of love' zone doesn't just have shootings every night, but they've also got zones where they enforce racial segregation! Chaz set up black-only racially segregated...

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"The View" co-host Meghan McCain Mocks Trump’s Tulsa Rally Turnout: “The Writing is On the Wall”

Posted: 22 Jun 2020 06:02 PM PDT

On Monday morning, The View opened with the biggest topic of the weekend: Trump's highly-anticipated rally in Tulsa, his first since COVID-19 began spreading in March. For days leading up to the...

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CNN's Brian Stelter skips network controversies on media show, largely focuses on knocking Trump rally

Posted: 22 Jun 2020 04:50 PM PDT

Despite being the network's chief media correspondent, CNN's Brian Stelter skipped over two of the biggest controversies that emerged last week on his industry-centric Sunday show "Reliable...

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MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle called out Governor Cuomo on nursing home policy that led to thousands of deaths

Posted: 22 Jun 2020 03:24 PM PDT

There is an old saying that if you don't blow your own horn, there won't be any music. Gov. Andrew Cuomo obviously is a believer, having ended his streak of 111 daily coronavirus briefings...

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Monday, June 22, 2020

Lập phương trình đường tròn tiếp xúc 2 trục tọa độ - Toán 10 - Bùi Quang Lê

Lập phương trình đường tròn tiếp xúc 2 trục tọa độ - Toán 10 - Bùi Quang Lê


Lập phương trình đường tròn tiếp xúc 2 trục tọa độ - Toán 10 - Bùi Quang Lê

Posted: 22 Jun 2020 07:09 AM PDT

Lập phương trình đường tròn (T) biết (T) tiếp xúc với hai trục tọa độ và có tâm nằm trên đường thẳng (d): 4x-2y+8=0. Giải: ở đây ta có hai cách giải, 1 là giải theo đại số, cách này có ưu điểm...

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Here is video of Eagles’ TE Dallas Goedert being sucker-punched at the Zoo Bar in Aberdeen, S.D

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 06:52 PM PDT

Philadelphia Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert was attacked at a South Dakota restaurant on Friday night while eating dinner with his family, according to NJ.com. A video showed that Goedert was...

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Seattle police report 1 dead, 1 injured after shooting to CHOP fatal shooting seen on bodycam footage

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 05:54 PM PDT

Coming soon to a city near you? That mob Trump talked about last night, and we've been talking about today, isn't just an abstract notion. it's not just social media cancel culture or even pulling...

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Many attendees waiting for Trump’s rally in Tulsa are not wearing masks or social distancing

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 09:43 AM PDT

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Sunday, June 21, 2020

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed the Trump campaign had been scammed by teenage anti-Trump activist

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed the Trump campaign had been scammed by teenage anti-Trump activist


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed the Trump campaign had been scammed by teenage anti-Trump activist

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 04:27 AM PDT

News outlets would probably have dismissed as conspiracy theory the notion that people – liberal wackos, American teenagers, KPop fans, and even foreigners – gamed the Trump Tulsa rally by reserving...

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Saturday, June 20, 2020

President Trump posts new video on reopening of country ahead of Tulsa Rally : ‘Our Country Will Go On’

President Trump posts new video on reopening of country ahead of Tulsa Rally : ‘Our Country Will Go On’


President Trump posts new video on reopening of country ahead of Tulsa Rally : ‘Our Country Will Go On’

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:13 PM PDT

President Trump pointedly warned "anarchists" and other "agitators" not to disrupt his campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., this weekend, after an apparent threat that outside groups may be planning to...

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Klobuchar withdraws from Biden VP contention: "I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on the ticket"

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:46 AM PDT

Sen. Amy Klobuchar says a woman of color should be the one to serve alongside Joe Biden as vice president, and so she is withdrawing herself from consideration. She talks to Lawrence O'Donnell about...

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Friday, June 19, 2020

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Battling over what is deemed classified information.

The Justice Department has gone to court to stop the book from being published, arguing that it has classified information in it and that it was not cleared by a prepublication review required of former government officials like Mr. Bolton.

In fact, according to his lawyer, Charles J. Cooper, Mr. Bolton participated in an extensive back-and-forth over the book and agreed to all of the revisions mandated by the career official who reviewed it or came up with acceptable alternatives. Only when the review was over did another official, Michael J. Ellis, a political appointee, step in to review it all over again at the instruction of Robert C. O'Brien, Mr. Bolton's successor as national security adviser.

If there is classified information still in the book, it is hard to figure out what it might be. There are not references to secret intelligence programs or espionage sources and methods. But Mr. Trump insisted this week that every conversation with him was "highly classified" and therefore could not be disclosed, an assertion that goes far beyond tradition.

In his epilogue, Mr. Bolton says that in a few cases, "I was prevented from conveying information that I thought was not properly classifiable, since it revealed information that can only be described as embarrassing to Trump or as indicative of possible impermissible behavior." One example is the direct quote of what Mr. Trump said to Mr. Xi about helping him win re-election.

For the most part, though, Mr. Bolton explains in the epilogue that the career official who reviewed the book merely made him take quotation marks off things that the president said and otherwise generally left them in. And so Mr. Bolton offers a guide to readers: "In some cases, just put your own quotation marks around the relevant passages; you won't go far wrong."

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Describing a toxic environment inside the administration.

Over a long career in and out of Republican administrations in Washington, Mr. Bolton has rarely shied from giving his opinions, usually born of strong conservative national security convictions that have made him one of the capital's most outspoken hawks advocating the use of military power and sanctions.

While he agreed with Mr. Trump on issues like getting out of the nuclear accord with Iran, he found himself repeatedly trying to stop the president from making concessions to other rogue states or making an ill-considered peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan while pushing for a more robust use of force against outliers like Iran or Syria. He considered Mr. Trump's diplomacy to be folly.

To Mr. Bolton, Mr. Trump's decision to meet North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore was a "foolish mistake," and the president's desire to then invite Mr. Kim to the White House was "a potential disaster of enormous magnitude." A series of presidential Twitter posts about China and North Korea were "mostly laughable." Mr. Trump's meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Helsinki was a "self-inflicted wound" and "Putin had to be laughing uproariously at what he had gotten away with in Helsinki."

Mr. Bolton also describes an environment inside the administration marked by caustic infighting in which various players trash one another in a contest for the president's ear — and the president trashes all of them.

When Mr. Bolton took over as national security adviser in 2018, John F. Kelly, then the White House chief of staff, disparaged the departing adviser, H.R. McMaster, by saying, "The president hasn't had a national security adviser in the past year and he needs one." Mr. Pompeo, the book says, disparaged Nikki R. Haley, then the ambassador to the United Nations, calling her "light as a feather."

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Mr. Bolton also mentions ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications giant that was convicted of evading sanctions on Iran and North Korea and then faced new penalties for further violations during its follow-up consent decree. During a conversation on trade with President Xi Jinping of China, Mr. Trump offered to lighten the penalties.

"Xi replied that if that were done, he would owe Trump a favor and Trump immediately responded he was doing this because of Xi," Mr. Bolton writes. He called himself "appalled" and "stunned" by the idea of intervening in a criminal investigation to let a sanctions buster off the hook. In the end, at Mr. Trump's behest, the Justice Department accepted a $1 billion fine and lifted a seven-year ban on buying American products, an act of lenience that saved the company from going out of business.

A new allegation in the book accuses Mr. Trump of "pleading" with Mr. Xi to help him win re-election by buying American agricultural products, which would help the president in farm states. Mr. Trump did not deny it when asked about the matter on Wednesday night by Sean Hannity on Fox News, but Robert Lighthizer, his trade representative, did on his behalf earlier in the day, saying it was not true.

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Singling out episodes of "obstruction of justice as a way of life."

The other episodes that Mr. Bolton says the House should have investigated include Mr. Trump's willingness to intervene in Justice Department investigations against foreign companies to "give personal favors to dictators he liked." Mr. Bolton said it appeared to be "obstruction of justice as a way of life."

He singles out Halkbank of Turkey, a state-owned financial institution investigated for a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade American sanctions on Iran. At a side encounter during a Buenos Aires summit meeting in late 2018, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey handed Mr. Trump a memo by the law firm representing Halkbank, "which Trump did nothing more than flip through before declaring he believed Halkbank was totally innocent." He then told Mr. Erdogan "he would take care of things."

Attorney General William P. Barr later spent months trying to negotiate a settlement with the bank, but that came to an end in October, after Mr. Bolton left office, when the Justice Department charged Halkbank in a six-count indictment.

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Explaining a lack of testimony, and placing blame on Democrats.

As the book nears publication and details spill out, many congressional Democrats quickly assailed Mr. Bolton for not telling his story during the impeachment proceedings and instead saving it for his $2 million book.

Mr. Bolton explains his position in the epilogue, saying he wanted to wait to see if a judge would order his former deputy to testify over White House objections. House Democrats opted not to pursue the case, fearing endless litigation. Once the House impeached Mr. Trump over the Ukraine matter, Mr. Bolton volunteered to testify in the Senate trial that followed if subpoenaed.

But Senate Republicans voted to block new testimony by him and any other witnesses even after The New York Times reported that his forthcoming book would confirm the quid pro quo. Some of those Republican senators said that even if Mr. Bolton was correct, it would not be enough in their minds to justify making Mr. Trump the first president in American history convicted and removed from office.

Mr. Bolton blames House Democrats for being in a rush rather than waiting for the court system to rule on whether witnesses like him should testify, and he faults them for narrowing their inquiry to just the Ukraine matter rather than building a broader case with more examples of misconduct by the president.

"Had a Senate majority agreed to call witnesses and had I testified, I am convinced, given the environment then existing because of the House's impeachment malpractice, that it would have made no significant difference in the Senate outcome," he writes.

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Democrats and Republicans react to John Bolton's bombshell book on Trump

Democrats and Republicans react to John Bolton's bombshell book on Trump


Democrats and Republicans react to John Bolton's bombshell book on Trump

Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:51 AM PDT

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton has managed to anger both sides of the political divide ahead of the release of his new book, which contains potentially damaging accusations...

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Thursday, June 18, 2020

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Leak intrigue

On Sept. 9, 2019, Trump told Bolton in the Oval Office that the press coverage concerning his canceled Camp David meeting with Taliban and Afghan leaders was highly unfair, according to the memoir.

Days earlier, Trump tweeted that he had canceled the planned secret meeting after the Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bombing that killed a U.S. soldier, a Romanian soldier, and 10 civilians in Kabul earlier that week.

"Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday," Trump tweeted. "They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers, and 11 other people. I immediately cancelled [sic] the meeting and called off peace negotiations. What kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position?"

Bolton's memoir charges that Trump's tweets were making him look bad -- but that the president sought to blame others.

"He was furious he was being portrayed as a fool, not that he put it that way," Bolton writes. "He said, 'A lot of people don't like you. They say you're a leaker and not a team player.' I wasn't about to let that go. I said I'd been subject to a campaign of negative leaks against me over the past several months, which I would be happy to describe in detail, and I'd also be happy to tell him who I thought the leaks were coming from. (Mostly, I believed the leaks were being directed by Pompeo and Mulvaney.)"

Bolton said he told Trump that there were no "favorable stories" about Bolton in the New York Times or Washington Post, which "often revealed who was doing the leaking."

Separately, Bolton confirms reports that Trump didn't want notes taken from his private conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland in July 2018. That summit attracted international scrutiny, as Trump suggested Russia might be right -- and U.S. intelligence might be wrong -- about Russian election interference efforts.

"In fact, the US interpreter told Fiona Hill and Joe Wang later that Putin had talked for 90 percent of the time (excluding translation); she also said Trump had told her not to take any notes, so she could only debrief us from her unaided memory," Bolton writes. "It was clear, said Trump, that Putin 'wants out' of Syria, and that he liked Netanyahu. Trump also said Putin didn't seem to care much one way or the other about our leaving the Iran nuclear deal, although he did say Russia would stay in." Trump told Putin he had 'no choice' but to be 'tough' on China."

"These people should be executed, they are scumbags," Trump separately told Bolton concerning leakers, according to the memoir. One of Trump's "favorite legal gambits," Bolton writes, was "that the Justice Department arrest the reporters, force them to serve time in jail, and then demand they disclose their sources. Only then would the leaks stop."

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'Axis of adults'

Bolton begins the memoir by dismissing "Washington's conventional wisdom on Trump's trajectory," saying it is largely "wrong" and "intellectually lazy" to conclude, as many have, that the president was held in check by an "axis of adults" during his first fifteen months in office.

That overall picture is "simplistic," Bolton writes. In fact, the "axis of adults in many respects caused enduring problems not because they successfully managed Trump ... but because they did precisely the opposite. They didn't do nearly enough to establish order, and what they did do was so transparently self-serving and so publicly dismissive of many of Trump's very clear goals (whether worthy or unworthy) that they fed Trump's already-suspicious mindset, making it harder for those who came later to have legitimate policy exchanges with the President."

Because his "axis of adults" performed so poorly, Trump "second-guessed people's motives, saw conspiracies behind rocks, and remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House, let alone the huge federal government," Bolton says. The president began relying largely on "instinct" and "foreign relationships with other leaders," and as a result, "botched irretrievably" his transition and "opening year-plus" in office.

Bolton asserts that many key Trump advisers would tend toward describing life in the White House as philosopher Thomas Hobbes' described human existence: "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

"My goal was not to get a membership card, but to get a driver's license," Bolton writes. "That thinking was not common at the Trump White House. In early visits to the West Wing, the differences between this president and previous ones I had served were stunning. What happened on one day on a particular issue often had little resemblance to what happened the next day, or the day after. Few seemed to realize it, care about it, or have any interest in fixing it. And it wasn't going to get much better, which depressing but inescapable conclusion I reached only after I had joined the Administration."

Throughout the memoir, Bolton raises various concerns about the day-to-day operations at the White House. For example, Trump chaired "weekly meetings" that "more closely resembled college food fights than careful decision making," Bolton writes. "After these sessions, had I believed in yoga, I probably could have used some."

"Trump generally had only two intelligence briefings per week, and in most of those, he spoke at greater length than the briefers, often on matters completely unrelated to subjects at hand," Bolton adds.

And, the day then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis resigned, Trump told Bolton in the Oval Office: "He's leaving ... I never really liked him."

Earlier this month, Mattis excoriated the president in a statement to The Atlantic published -- urging Americans to "reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution."

Trump issued his own blistering condemnation on Twitter hours later, pointing out that then-President Obama removed Mattis as head of U.S. Central Command in 2013.

"Probably the only thing Barack Obama and I have in common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis, the world's most overrated General," Trump wrote. "I asked for his letter of resignation, & felt great about it. His nickname was 'Chaos', which I didn't like, & changed it to 'Mad Dog.' His primary strength was not military, but rather personal public relations. I gave him a new life, things to do, and battles to win, but he seldom 'brought home the bacon'. I didn't like his 'leadership' style or much else about him, and many others agree. Glad he is gone!"

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On August 20, Trump "said he wasn't in favor of sending [Ukraine] anything until all the Russia-investigation materials related to Clinton and Biden had been turned over," Bolton writes. "That could take years, so it didn't sound like there was much of a prospect that the military aid would proceed."

"When, in 1992, Bush 41 supporters suggested he ask foreign governments to help out in his failing campaign against Bill Clinton, Bush and Jim Baker completely rejected the idea. Trump did the precise opposite," Bolton concludes.

Bolton's critics, however, argue that history cuts both ways. The White House has repeatedly challenged Bolton's credibility based on his previous statements, and The Federalist's Sean Davis pointed out that Bolton advanced false narratives in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003.

A string of resurfaced video clips earlier this year led Trump to tweet "GAME OVER!" -- including an interview of Bolton in August 2019 where he appears to have no issues with Trump foreign policy concerning Ukraine or any other nation. The interview seemingly contradicted assertions in Bolton's book that Trump explicitly told him he wanted to tie military aid to Ukraine to an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden. (Zelensky has said his communications with Trump involved no pressure for any investigation.)

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Ukraine meltdown: 'They tried to f--k me'

All the same, Bolton's book devotes substantial consideration to Ukraine, and the president's dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that led to his impeachment.

On March 25, 2019, Trump called Bolton to the Oval Office, but Bolton says he found the president seated in a small dining room alongside personal attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow. Giuliani was "the source of the stories about [then-U.S. Ukraine ambassador Marie] Yovanovitch," whom Giuliani said was "being protected" by George Kent, another State Department official. Trump ordered Yovanovitch fired at the meeting, the book states.

Speaking to Bolton, Pompeo "protested that Giuliani's allegations simply weren't true and said he would call Trump," who had complained that the diplomat was "bad-mouthing us," according to the memoir.

On April 23, Trump and then-chief of staff Mick Mulvaney were in the Oval Office on the phone with Giuliani. Yovanovitch, Giuliani was telling Trump, "had spoken to President-Elect Zelensky to tell him Trump himself wanted certain investigations by Ukrainian prosecutors stopped."

Bolton writes that Giuliani offered "no evidence" on the call for the allegations, which included that Yovanovitch was "protecting Hillary Clinton" because her campaign could be under investigation in Ukraine -- "and there was some connection with Joe Biden's son Hunter in there as well."

Trump said he couldn't believe Pompeo hadn't fired the diplomat yet, and reiterated that Zelensky should know Yovanovitch didn't speak for the administration, according to the book.

By May 22, after addressing the Coast Guard Academy's graduation ceremony in Connecticut, Trump made clear he had had enough, Bolton writes, citing Bolton deputy Charles Kupperman.

"I don't want to have any f---ing thing to do with Ukraine," Trump reportedly said. "They f---ing attacked me. I can't understand why. Ask [lawyer] Joe diGenova, he knows all about it. They tried to f--k me. They're corrupt. I'm not f---ing with them."

Trump's remarks, Bolton says, concerned what Trump saw as the Clinton campaign's efforts, "aided by Hunter Biden, to harm Trump in 2016 and 2020." When [U.S. diplomat Kurt] Volker tried to say something, Trump responded, "I don't give a sh--." When another official interjected that "we couldn't allow a failed state, presumably a Ukraine where effective government had broken down," Trump replied, "Talk to Rudy and Joe. ... I want the f--king DNC server."

Bolton writes: "I was stunned at the simplemindedness of pressing for a face-to-face Trump-Zelensky meeting where the 'Giuliani issues' could be resolved, an approach it appeared Mulvaney shared from his frequent meetings with [Gordon] Sondland. I told [NSC official] Fiona Hill to take the whole matter to the White House Counsel's office; she quoted me accurately as saying, 'I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.' I thought the whole affair was bad policy, questionable legally, and unacceptable as presidential behavior. Was it a factor in my later resignation? Yes, but as one of many 'straws' that contributed to my departure."

Hill, a former top White House expert on Russia, testified at Trump's impeachment proceedings that Bolton distanced himself from the effort to leverage investigations from Ukrainians in exchange for a White House meeting -- and warned that Giuliani was a "hand grenade" who was "going to blow up everyone," according to transcripts.

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'Impeachment malpractice'

As excerpts of Bolton's manuscript began leaking Wednesday, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led Democrats' impeachment effort, slammed Bolton in no uncertain terms.

"Bolton's staff were asked to testify before the House to Trump's abuses, and did," Schiff tweeted. "They had a lot to lose and showed real courage. When Bolton was asked, he refused, and said he'd sue if subpoenaed. Instead, he saved it for a book. Bolton may be an author, but he's no patriot."

Trump allies have directly accused Bolton of trying to sell books with incendiary claims, noting that he was paid $2 million for the memoir.

Democrats were upset with Bolton during the impeachment proceedings, as well, saying he had even declined to produce an affidavit in the Senate trial for unclear reasons. Republicans pointed out that Democrats dropped their bid to compel testimony from Bolton, seemingly to push the proceedings along for political reasons -- an assessment that Bolton affirms in his book.

From the "very outset of the proceedings in the House of Representatives," Bolton writes, "advocates for impeaching Trump on the Ukraine issue were committing impeachment malpractice. They seemed governed more by their own political imperatives to move swiftly to vote on articles of impeachment in order to avoid interfering with the Democratic presidential nomination schedule than in completing a comprehensive investigation."

Had the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives not focused "solely" on Ukraine, Bolton wrote, they could have probed "the broader pattern of his behavior -- including his pressure campaigns involving Halkbank, ZTE, and Huawei among others."

Such an approach, Bolton muses, could have led to a "greater chance to persuade others that 'high crimes and misdemeanors' had been perpetrated. In fact, I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn't driven by re-election calculations."

Although Democrats fretted over his failure to testify, Bolton says, they were missing the forest for the trees.

"Had a Senate majority agreed to call witnesses and had I testified, I am convinced, given the environment then existing because of the House's impeachment malpractice, that it would have made no significant difference in the Senate outcome," Bolton writes.

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North Korea's 'Brooklyn Bridge' sale

Bolton's eyewitness account of Trump's North Korea diplomacy, including his summit with the country, paints a mixed portrait -- at times offering an unsparing critique of the president's political motivations, while sometimes crediting his distrust of dictator Kim Jong Un.

On May 25, 2019, a reporter asked Bolton if North Korea's then-recent short-range missile launches violated Security Council resolutions, putting him in an "awkward position," he writes.

Bolton "knew full well they did, having helped write the first two, Resolutions 1695 and 1718, when I was US Ambassador to the UN," the book states, adding that he "wasn't about to ignore" those resolutions. At the same time, "it was entirely possible for the launches to violate the resolutions without violating Kim's pledge to Trump, which involved only ICBM launches. It was equally true that Trump looked foolish for not understanding that Kim had, in effect, sold him the Brooklyn Bridge with that pledge, but we were never able to shake Trump's faith he had scored a coup in getting it."

At the press conference, Bolton responded that there was "no doubt" of a violation: "The UN resolution prohibits the launch of any ballistic missiles."

Trump then fired off a tweet that rankled Bolton: "North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that's sending me a signal?"

And, during Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un, Bolton writes, Pompeo "passed me his note pad, on which he had written, 'he is so full of s--t.' I agreed. Kim promised there would be no further nuclear tests, and that their nuclear program would be dismantled in an irreversible manner."

Fox News had confirmed that Bolton was referring to Trump as the person who was "so full of s--t."

However, the president did occasionally have flashes of insight, according to Bolton.

"When Pompeo told Trump that North Korea wanted 'security guarantees' before denuclearization, Trump responded, 'This 'trust building' is horsesh--,' the smartest thing on Pyongyang he had said in months," the book says, noting that Pompeo added, "'It's all an effort to weaken the sanctions, a standard delaying tactic,' which was correct."

The memoir continues: "'This is an exercise in publicity,'" said Trump, which is how he saw the entire summit. Kelly said to me while Trump did a meet-and-greet with the Singapore US embassy staff, 'the psychology here is that Trump wants to walk out in order to preempt Kim Jong Un.' I agreed, and became somewhat hopeful we could avoid major concessions. After the meet-and-greet, Trump told [Sarah] Sanders, Kelly, and me he was prepared to sign a substance-free communique, have his press conference to declare victory, and then get out of town."

According to the book, Trump said the summit would be a "success no matter what," adding, "We just need to put on more sanctions, including on China for opening up the border. Kim is full of sh--, we have three hundred more sanctions we can impose on Friday."

Bolton writes that this development "threw logistics back into disarray (not that they had been in array since we left Canada), but Kelly and I said we'd get back to him with options later that day."

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