• Trump trembles over the Bolton book, asked to block the exit

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June 18, 2020 Donald Trump's international security adviser, John Bolton, attacks President Trump with his head lowered and declares, in an interview with ABC News, that "the President of the United States is not suited to the role he holds". Some extracts from the interview released today, following the disclosure of parts of the book written by Bolton in the main US newspapers, highlighted a very particular representation of his former boss.

"I don't think Trump is suitable for the role he plays," Bolton said in the ABC News interview. "I don't think he has the skills to do his job."

The star-and-stripes foreign policy expert "hawk", who left office at the White House in September, accused the president of committing serious misdeeds to attempt re-election, including explicit search for help of the Chinese Xi Jinping. 

Bolton tells of having witnessed, from a privileged position, the facts told in his book. According to Bolton, Trump would also have expressed his willingness to stop criminal investigations in favor of the dictators he liked the most. Bolton said the broad excerpts from his story, published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times on Wednesday, raised much more serious accusations against the president than those that led Trump's impeachment.

In his memoir, Bolton cited multiple conversations in which Trump demonstrated "fundamentally unacceptable behavior that altered the true legitimacy of the presidency". "There is actually no guiding principle that I have been able to discern except what is good for Donald Trump's reelection," Bolton told ABC News.

President Trump, according to Bolton, would have told Xi Jinping's China in June 2019 to move forward in the construction of camps to contain the Uyghur Muslim minority and other Muslim groups, despite the Trump administration's criticism of the detention of Chinese mass.

Bolton also wrote that Trump claimed that the invasion of Venezuela would be "cool" even though the United States government has said it is not in favor of using force to overthrow Venezuelan socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

"At a summer 2019 meeting in New Jersey, Trump made some of his most alarming remarks to date in the media to date, saying that journalists should be jailed so that they should disclose their sources and should be executed," he said. Bolton. 

The book is titled "The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir" and will be in bookstores from June 23rd.

Trump versus Bolton: "He is a liar, hated by all"
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, defended his management of foreign policy, questioned by John Bolton, and accused his former national security adviser : "He is a liar," said Trump, interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. "Everyone in the White House hated John Bolton."

In the book that the government is trying to freeze, Bolton accuses Trump of having openly linked trade negotiations with China to his political fortunes, asking President Xi Jinping to buy U.S. agricultural products to help him win the vote of farmers in the upcoming presidential elections. 

Bolton then says that the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, was on the verge of resigning on several occasions, due to disagreements with the president. Trump said he had "a very good relationship" with Pompeo instead. According to Trump, it was Bolton who had trouble having good relations in the White House. "Nobody liked him at all, he wasn't very respected. And the more we knew him, the less he was respected. Personally, I thought he was crazy," he commented. 

Trump said he kept Bolton on staff as a negotiating tool, to instill fear in other world leaders. The president said he had blocked Bolton several times from bringing the United States into other wars, but gave no examples: "I don't mean it, I will do it when I write my book." Trump said he had a serious contrast to Bolton when his adviser defended the US invasion of Iraq, decided by the Bush administration.

Trump's poison tweet
"Wacko John Bolton's" extremely boring "book (New York Times) is made up of lies and false stories. He said all right about me, in writing, until the day I fired him A silly, boring, discontented man who just wanted to go to war. I never had a clue, he was ostracized and happily dumped. " So on Twitter President Donald Trump commented on John Bolton's upcoming book.

Wacko John Bolton's "exceedingly tedious" (New York Times) book is made up of lies & fake stories. Said all good about me, in print, until the day I fired him. A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war. Never had a clue, was ostracized & happily dumped. What a dope!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2020

China denies
China "does not intend to interfere with US politics and internal elections and we will not." This is the comment of Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on what was reported in his new book by John Bolton. "Beijing - Zhao added - has always respected the principle of not interfering in the internal affairs" of other countries. 

Biden: "Trump has betrayed the US people"
Joe Biden goes on the attack of Donald Trump after the advances of the new Bolton book. "We learned from the former national security adviser that President Trump has sold out the American people to protect his political future. If the reports are true, it is not only morally repugnant, it is a violation by Donald Trump of the sacred duty to the American people to protect American interests and defend our values. "