John Bolton, the former White House National Security Adviser, confirmed that President Donald Trump downplayed the importance of the oil tanker attacks in the Sea of Oman in June 2019.
In his book, "The Chamber in which the Event Occurred," Bolton said that after the attack on oil tankers in the Sea of Oman in June 2019, Reuters reported the attack, and then Al Jazeera reported it, quoting Reuters, to spread the news quickly throughout the Middle East.
Bolton added that, upon his arrival at the White House, at 05:45 am, after his arrival to Cooperman, he went directly to the crisis room to follow up on the situation.
He also said that he called the president and explained to him what happened in the Sea of Oman, but Trump asked him to downplay the importance of the matter. What Bolton described as another wrong style.
On June 13, 2019, explosions took place targeting two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz as they crossed the Gulf of Oman. This attack came just one month after the Fujairah attack.
Both incidents occurred at a time when tensions were prevailing between Iran on the one hand and the United States as well as some Arab Gulf states on the other hand.
Good time
Bolton considered that now is the most appropriate time for Americans to see any testimony about President Trump because it is the campaign period.
Commenting on his motivation to issue his controversial memoirs, "The Room in which the Event Happened," he said: Whatever my incentive to release the book. When is the best time for Americans to discover the personalities of those who run for president? It is the election campaign period.
Responding to a question about his refusal to testify in the investigation to isolate the president on the issue of the freezing of military aid to Ukraine, Trump's former national security adviser said that his testimony at the time was not to make a difference in the case, stressing that the current time is most appropriate.
Events and photo
Bolton's memoirs record events he says took place behind the scenes while he took over as National Security Adviser between 2018 and 2019, and the book has already been distributed to a large number of libraries to start selling next week.
In the book, Bolton painted a dark picture of Trump, saying he was trying to harness foreign policy to serve his personal interests, including his re-election, explaining that Trump asked - on the sidelines of the Group of Twenty summit in Japan in the summer of 2019 - from his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to help him win the US presidential elections.
Bolton's memoirs also included a charge of Trump ignorance of a number of issues in international politics, and his saying that Trump administration officials flip between deep concern and mockery of the president's words and actions.