Even before it was released, memoirs of former US National Security Adviser John Bolton became top sales on Amazon, as the administration of President Donald Trump urgently tries to prevent its publication, due on June 23, through the courts.
The French website of 20 Minutes said that the important papers from the book "In the Room Where It Happened" were published on Wednesday in the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, in which the mustache hawk who was Trump's national security adviser wrote his memoirs in the White House, and painted a devastating picture for the American President Donald Trump who tried to harness American foreign policy to serve his personal interests and be re-elected.
Bolton said that the Democrats were "obsessed" with the Ukrainian issue, and if, in his opinion, they had taken into account Trump's foreign policy in general during his removal measures, the result would have been "perhaps very different", but he nevertheless refused to testify in the House of Representatives, preferring - according to - His critics - protecting a multi-million dollar contract for his memoirs.
The French website chose five extracts from the notes that it said are the most exciting regarding Trump, and summarized them as follows:
Asking for China 's Assistance in the Elections
, the former chancellor said that, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Trump "diverted" the conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping "toward the upcoming presidential election," trying with Shi "to work to ensure his victory."
At this June 2019 meeting, "the President - according to Bolton - stressed the importance of farmers and that the increase in Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat will have a good effect on the elections," in rural American states.
Preference for autocrats
According to the British Daily Mail website, Bolton claimed that Trump defended the Saudi crown prince Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to keep the spotlight from revealing that his daughter Ivanka was using a private e-mail account through which he sent government mission messages To several sides of the American administration, which Trump himself was faulting for his rival in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton.
According to Bolton, President Trump sent a statement supporting Muhammad bin Salman in the aftermath of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi to The Washington Post to distract journalists from covering Ivanka Trump's use of her email in public matters.
In the context, Bolton accused the president of lifting the sanctions imposed on the Chinese telecommunications group "ZTE" as a bargaining chip to negotiate a trade deal with Beijing.
Detention camps in China
While influential Republican senators are relentlessly denouncing China, Bolton returned to the Osaka meeting in 2019 to say that Trump "with the presence of interpreters alone listened to the Chinese president's explanation of the reasons for building detention camps in Xinjiang", according to the American translator According to Bolton, "Trump saw that China should continue building these camps, believing that they are exactly the right thing to do."
An ignorant president and
in tune with Michael Wolf's book "Fire and Anger", John Bolton's memoirs refer to the ignorance of the US president who says he asked former British Prime Minister Theresa May whether the UK is a nuclear power, just as his chief of staff John Kelly asked: Is Finland part of Russia?
Bolton said providing information about Trump's geopolitics is not helpful, because the president "spends most of his time talking instead of listening."
Mocked to advisors
, Bolton said that Trump administration officials flipped between deep anxiety and cynicism, noting that he leaked to his knowledge during the historic summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in 2018, that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote about his boss, "he only says absurdities."
Pompeo reportedly later said that Trump's negotiations with Kim Jong-un "have no chance of success", and the US President subsequently asked his Secretary of State to give Kim Jong a gift that was a "Rocket Man" disk signed by Elton John, but Kim Jong-un ignored Pompeo during his trip and preferred to go check out a potato field, and according to Bolton, "giving this CD to Kim has been a priority for several months."