‘Trump is Trump.’– John Bolton, a former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump, makes this inane tautological assertion in one the initial pages of his recent book, ‘The Room Where It Happened’. In his book, Bolton calls this well-calculated, diplomatic move of Trump, ‘the most irrational decision’ he has ever witnessed a President make. After Bolton left Trump administration, he …
President Donald Trump “pleaded” with China’s Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help his reelection prospects, according to a scathing new book by former Trump adviser John Bolton that accuses the president of being driven by political calculations when making national security decisions. Deeply critical of the president and much of his senior team, Bolton wrote that because staff …
Editor’s Note: Jen Psaki, a CNN political commentator, was the White House communications director and State Department spokeswoman during the Obama administration. CNN — Former national security adviser John Bolton wrote a forthcoming book detailing, among other things, how President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 election and told him to go ahead …