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The book by John Bolton, former National Security Adviser to Donald Trump, offers the image of a president who allows himself to be influenced by the leaders of Turkey and who ignores basic concepts of foreign policy, such as that Finland is not part of Russia.

US media began filtering excerpts from the book 'The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir' on Wednesday, which is expected to hit bookstores on June 23, although the government has already sued Bolton to prevent its publication with the argument that it reveals information that may jeopardize national security.

These are the eight revelations in the book:

1. THE OBSESSION FOR GIVING A CD TO KIM JONG-UN

Bolton describes how for months Trump became obsessed with gifting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with Elton John's 'Rocket Man' CD.

Trump had used the term "rocket man" to refer to Kim and criticize his nuclear program, although he later tried to convince the dictator that it was a loving nickname.

According to 'The Washington Post', after the first summit between the two leaders in June 2018, Trump asked the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo , to give Kim the Elton John CD, something that violates US sanctions on Pyongyang and the Foreign head did not, so "giving Kim the CD became a high priority in the following months."

2. GUAIDÓ THE "CHILD" AGAINST MADURO'S "HARD"

According to Bolton, Trump wanted to withdraw his support for the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó just 30 hours after recognizing him in January 2019 as interim president of Venezuela, considering that he projected an image of "child" in front of the "tough" president . Nicolás Maduro.

The Post, which accessed the book, explains that "although Trump approved a Bolton proposal to publicly declare that the US recognized Guaidó instead of Maduro, within 30 hours Trump was already worried that Guaidó seemed weak , a 'child 'compared to Maduro's' tough' and considered changing course. "

3. CHINESE INTERVENTION IN THE ELECTIONS

In addition, Bolton assures that, in June 2019 during the G20 summit in Osaka (Japan), Trump asked his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to help him win the November 2020 elections with gestures such as the purchase by Beijing soybean and American wheat that would help you capture votes.

In that meeting, the two leaders were dialoguing when Trump "surprisingly led the conversation towards the next presidential elections in the US , alluding to China's economic capacity and pleading with Xi to help him win," Bolton describes in one of those excerpts, published by The Wall Street Journal.

4. TRUMP ENCOURAGED XI TO SUPPRESS THE UIGUR ETHNIC

Furthermore, during that G20 meeting, the President of the United States allegedly encouraged Xi to build detention camps for the Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang province.

"With the only presence of translators, Xi explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our translator, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with the construction of the camps , which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. it had to be done, "says Bolton, according to 'The Wall Street Journal.'

5. IS FINLAND A PART OF RUSSIA?

On the other hand, the book shows Bolton's frustration with the president, whom he portrays as someone ignorant in foreign policy.

The New York Times explains that "Trump did not seem to know, for example, that the United Kingdom is a nuclear power and asked if Finland was part of Russia."

6. ABOUT TO LEAVE NATO

In another excerpt collected by the 'Post', Bolton assures that the US president was about to announce the departure of the United States from NATO during the July 2018 summit.

Specifically, the adviser explains that Trump had decided to publicly communicate that Washington would leave the Alliance if the other members did not substantially increase their military spending by January 2019, and, with that in mind, he began to dictate to Bolton his statements: "We We will go out and we will not defend those who do not pay , "Trump told his adviser, who tried to stop him.

At that summit, Trump did not threaten an immediate exit from the Alliance, but he did ask member countries to increase military spending to 4% of their respective GDP, against the 2% goal agreed in 2014.

7. A PLEASE TO ERDOGAN

Likewise, according to Bolton, in May 2018, Trump promised his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that he would interfere with US justice to help a Turkish company that was being investigated by prosecutors of the southern district of New York for violating the sanctions. Americans to Iran.

"Trump then told Erdogan that he would take care of that, explaining that the prosecutors in the Southern District were not his people, but the people of (Barack) Obama , a problem that would be solved when they were replaced by his people," Bolton writes in a fragment collected by the Post.

8. CONFIRM THE COACTION TO UKRAINE

Finally, Bolton confirms that Trump conditioned the delivery to Ukraine of millions of dollars of military aid for Kiev to open an investigation into the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, something that motivated the opening of a political trial that he was acquitted in the Senate.

In his book, Bolton believes that Democrats should also have investigated Trump's deals with China and Turkey.

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