Posted on 06/18/2020 4:23:04 AM PDT by Cronos
...“The Room Where It Happened,” an account of his 17 months as Trump’s national security adviser, has been written with so little discernible attention to style and narrative form that he apparently presumes an audience that is hanging on his every word....
Known as a fastidious note taker, Bolton has filled this book’s nearly 500 pages with minute and often extraneous details, including the time and length of routine meetings and even, at one point, a nap. Underneath it all courses a festering obsession with his enemies, both abroad (Iran, North Korea) and at home (the media, “the High-Minded,” the former defense secretary Jim Mattis). The book is bloated with self-importance, even though what it mostly recounts is Bolton not being able to accomplish very much. It toggles between two discordant registers: exceedingly tedious and slightly unhinged.
..Bolton writes. “I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”
You can sense Bolton’s excitement when he describes going home “at about 5:30” for a change of clothes because he expected to be at the White House “all night.” It’s therefore an awful shock when Trump decided to call off the strikes at the very last minute, after learning they would kill as many as 150 people. “Too many body bags,” Trump told him. “Not proportionate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Smiting?
Snort.
More of a f*** in their general direction, I’d say
Bloated with self-importance Bolton.
And why is he so mad at Trump?
Trump was quite likely the last chance in Bolton’s lifetime to have any major role in any U.S. administration; and he blew it and wants to blame Trump.
Look....if John Bolton wanted to hurt POTUS, Trump a little bit, at all,...he would have released his book slightly after “Labor Day” in September, 2020. By releasing his failed book now...i give it three or four weeks of sales to multiple morons, buffoons and Democrats with few brains. Then, like the Hillary Clinton tomes, it will be well shown and displayed openly in the “Bargain Bins” all around the country where you can purchase it for a dollar or less!!! Case Closed!!!
How long will it take before JB is a regular tool for CNN or MSNBC? Who else is dumb enough to hire the SOB now?
YAWWWWWWWWWWWWWN
Bolton is an angry LITTLE chickenhawk... who ruined himself for money.
Bolton loved working for Trump, until Trump disagreed with him and fired his rear for being a dolt.
What ever happened to that Omarosa chick who wrote a tell all book about Trump?
Pigs are flying — hard to believe this was published by the “failing New York Times.”
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