John Bolton is an extremist nut-job whose principal foreign policy goal has always been to start World War III. He was the National Security Advisor from from April 2018 to September 2019, including the time during which Resident Dump threatened to withhold military aid from Ukraine unless they announced a fake investigation of Joe Biden. The House Intelligence Committee wanted him to testify in the impeachment inquiry but he refused, while teasing that he had damning evidence to give. This was all part of a marketing campaign for his book.
Now some reporters have gotten ahold of the book. If you want to know some of the more interesting claims he makes, you can read about it here. He says the House impeachment inquiry was too narrow because the Resident committed other impeachable offenses that they didn't investigate. Well, they might have investigated if he had told them about it. He also claims to be a direct witness to the Resident committing the impeachable act regarding Ukraine. He also says that the Resident is an ignorant idiot who, for example, did not know that Britain possesses nuclear weapons and asked whether Finland is part of Russia, among other mind boggling stupidities. He is depicted as lazy, completely uninterested in the welfare of any person or entity other than himself, and in general completely unfit for his office.
None of this comes as a revelation. We already know it. It might be some small help that it is coming from a person who is a member of the conservative establishment, but really, I don't think the Republican senators would care if Bolton claimed he saw the Resident rape and eat babies. It also might have helped if he had told us all this six months ago, but the $2 million book advance was worth more to him than the fate of humanity. I suppose getting some of these specifics on the record is a marginal benefit to the public discourse, but it isn't really going to change much of anything. Also, whatever you do, don't buy the book.
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PS In my more circumspect moments, I feel only mild anger. I realize that we are in a profane shit-show in which a malignant clown has been put in a position of world leadership. It's all a really sick joke that has arisen from the national shame that we do not acknowledge. That shame comes from the reversing of the outcome of the Civil War (or, as they call it down South, the "War of the Northern Aggression," itself a lie) in 1877, the result of a corrupt congressional deal between corrupt congressmen that stopped Reconstruction in its tracks. This was just the latest deal with the devil on the part of the US government that placed Americans with brown skin in harm's way, this time with the introduction of Jim Crow racism leading to suppression and terror.
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