David Richard commented on the memoirs of John Bolton he was preparing to publish in a book in which he strongly criticized US President Donald Trump as "hurt but he will not affect his supporters."
The editor of American affairs in the British Times newspaper stated that at the height of the Watergate scandal in 1974, President Richard Nixon had to publish the texts of the recordings of his intrigues at the White House.
"Will John Bolton's book be seen as the embodiment of Trump's era?" He asked. He added that the recordings revealed how Nixon plotted to cover up the scandal by using the "National Security" shield that led to his downfall.
Richard said that President Trump, who survived the impeachment of the parliamentary dismissal because of his unjustified pressure on Ukraine to help in his re-election, is now similarly resorting to the "national security" fortress.
Trump's lawsuit, according to the author, to prevent the full publication of Bolton's book appears as an attempt to close the "hangar door" after its contents are strewn across the American and international media.
However - as the author says - Bolton's sincerity and motives can be questioned in the same way that Nixon's words recorded on tape could have been questioned.
While the last vestiges of Nixon's credibility have been shattered by the tapes, the author believes that there is no certainty that Bolton's book will have the same effect on the Trump base, and that the test is whether hard-line supporters in the major swing states of Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that will decide the election, will stir them. Allegations of a "swamp being" like Bolton, who has been a key player in Washington for decades.
The economy is the most important
The author adds that voters in the heart of the United States not interested in the foreign policy debate may hear that the main claim of the book is that Trump appealed to China to buy more American agricultural products, and Bolton portrayed this as a self-interest by Trump, but agricultural societies may interpret it differently .
When it comes to the presidential vote in November, the economy and handling associated with the Corona virus pandemic are likely to be the most important to many American minds. Perhaps this is added to the summer of discontent with racism and police reform.
The writer concluded his article by noting that Trump received only 34% support in the Gallup poll on the eve of the 2016 elections and that Joe Biden's campaign could not rely on a divisive figure like Bolton, to motivate working-class voters that he needed to win.