Whoa! Bolton coming out swinging! Can't believe the WSJ gave him Op-Ed

[Indeependent]

Bolton's advice concerning every foreign country we were having an issue with, was to 'bomb and invade'.
Trump knew this was idiotic and fired his crazy ass. ...

Then why did he hire him in the first place, asshat?
"I only hire the best people!"
Forget that, dipshit?
Bolton had been around the Beltway a looooooong time, too.
Was part of Bush Jr. admin.
Not fresh off a campus.

Bolton's job was to make bad guys think we were going to blow them to pieces.
It was also to do what your boss told you to do.
If either one of us did a Bolton at work, we'd be fired.

but he quit over what he viewed was Trump's politicization.

Most of us know that Bolton has wanted to nuke every Muslim nation and Tyrannical Nation since the day he was born.
He wasn't expecting Trump to cave into you Liberals by being diplomatic.
Thank you.

 

[excalibur]

lol Bolton. This guy is about as believable as Eddie Haskel (RIP). He's full of shyte and joined Trumps administration for just this reason like a few others. Neo-cons who want influence back while they send other childrens kids to war.

Let the Walrus Moustache wearing Chicken Hawk dirtbag try to peddle his B.S to the suddenly adoring MSM. He will answer to God for his lifes work...

The left has had a long-term hate-on for Bolton, now they have a hard-on for him.

 

[Indeependent]

Talk about spin....Fox News?
You can bet Hannity, Ingraham and Tucker will all be bashing Bolton tonight.

Spin?

They quote from the manuscript.

Please elaborate on the Democrat agenda those items with which you disagree.

 

[excalibur]

I personally want to thank any foreign country that helped Trump get elected, and hope they help get him reelected in 2020 ...

 

[bendog]

Bolton's advice concerning every foreign country we were having an issue with, was to 'bomb and invade'.
Trump knew this was idiotic and fired his crazy ass. ...

Then why did he hire him in the first place, asshat?
"I only hire the best people!"
Forget that, dipshit?
Bolton had been around the Beltway a looooooong time, too.
Was part of Bush Jr. admin.
Not fresh off a campus.

Bolton's job was to make bad guys think we were going to blow them to pieces.
It was also to do what your boss told you to do.
If either one of us did a Bolton at work, we'd be fired.

but he quit over what he viewed was Trump's politicization.

Most of us know that Bolton has wanted to nuke every Muslim nation and Tyrannical Nation since the day he was born.
He wasn't expecting Trump to cave into you Liberals by being diplomatic.
Thank you.

LOL. Trump didn't want no more wars, but he didn't want to pull out of IRaq and he had to pay the Saudis for bailing Jared out of bankruptcy.

U idiot Trumpsuckers got what you deserve.

 

[Indeependent]

Bolton's advice concerning every foreign country we were having an issue with, was to 'bomb and invade'.
Trump knew this was idiotic and fired his crazy ass. ...

Then why did he hire him in the first place, asshat?
"I only hire the best people!"
Forget that, dipshit?
Bolton had been around the Beltway a looooooong time, too.
Was part of Bush Jr. admin.
Not fresh off a campus.

Bolton's job was to make bad guys think we were going to blow them to pieces.
It was also to do what your boss told you to do.
If either one of us did a Bolton at work, we'd be fired.

but he quit over what he viewed was Trump's politicization.

Most of us know that Bolton has wanted to nuke every Muslim nation and Tyrannical Nation since the day he was born.
He wasn't expecting Trump to cave into you Liberals by being diplomatic.
Thank you.

LOL. Trump didn't want no more wars, but he didn't want to pull out of IRaq and he had to pay the Saudis for bailing Jared out of bankruptcy.

U idiot Trumpsuckers got what you deserve.

WTF are you babbling about?
You Liberals were screaming about how important Muslim lives are.

 

[wamose]

Bolton's advice concerning every foreign country we were having an issue with, was to 'bomb and invade'.
Trump knew this was idiotic and fired his crazy ass. ...

Then why did he hire him in the first place, asshat?
"I only hire the best people!"
Forget that, dipshit?
Bolton had been around the Beltway a looooooong time, too.
Was part of Bush Jr. admin.
Not fresh off a campus.

Bolton had a lot of elitist references, greedy warmonger that he is. The government is loaded with imbedded assholes throughout the bureaucracies.

 

[g5000]

Oooooh baby, Bolton's ready to fight!!!

If WSJ is giving him ink, then Rupert Murdoch and Trump must not be lovin' each other much lately.



John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy

The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own reelection prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses

By John Bolton


June 17, 2020 2:46 pm ET

John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy

The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own re-election prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses.

www.wsj.com

Can you give us the gist? I can't read past a few sentences.

.

Some excerpts:

Trade matters were handled from day one in a completely chaotic way. Trump’s favorite way to proceed was to get small armies of people together, either in the Oval Office or the Roosevelt Room, to argue out these complex, controversial issues. Over and over again, the same issues. Without resolution, or even worse, one outcome one day and a contrary outcome a few days later. The whole thing made my head hurt.

<snip>


In Buenos Aires on Dec. 1, at dinner, Xi began by telling Trump how wonderful he was, laying it on thick. Xi read steadily through note cards, doubtless all of it hashed out arduously in advance. Trump ad-libbed, with no one on the U.S. side knowing what he would say from one minute to the next.

One highlight came when Xi said he wanted to work with Trump for six more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him. Xi said the U.S. had too many elections, because he didn’t want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly.

<snip>


Trump came close, unilaterally offering that U.S. tariffs would remain at 10% rather than rise to 25%, as he had previously threatened. In exchange, Trump asked merely for some increases in Chinese farm-product purchases, to help with the crucial farm-state vote. If that could be agreed, all the U.S. tariffs would be reduced. It was breathtaking.

Trump asked Lighthizer if he had left anything out, and Lighthizer did what he could to get the conversation back onto the plane of reality, focusing on the structural issues and ripping apart the Chinese proposal. Trump closed by saying Lighthizer would be in charge of the deal-making, and Jared Kushner would also be involved, at which point all the Chinese perked up and smiled.

<snip>

In their meeting in Osaka on June 29, Xi told Trump that the U.S.-China relationship was the most important in the world. He said that some (unnamed) American political figures were making erroneous judgments by calling for a new cold war with China.

Whether Xi meant to finger the Democrats or some of us sitting on the U.S. side of the table, I don’t know, but Trump immediately assumed that Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility to China among the Democrats. Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.

<snip>

Take Trump’s handling of the threats posed by the Chinese telecommunications firms Huawei and ZTE. Ross and others repeatedly pushed to strictly enforce U.S. regulations and criminal laws against fraudulent conduct, including both firms’ flouting of U.S. sanctions against Iran and other rogue states. The most important goal for Chinese “companies” like Huawei and ZTE is to infiltrate telecommunications and information-technology systems, notably 5G, and subject them to Chinese control (though both companies, of course, dispute the U.S. characterization of their activities).

Trump, by contrast, saw this not as a policy issue to be resolved but as an opportunity to make personal gestures to Xi. In 2018, for example, he reversed penalties that Ross and the Commerce Department had imposed on ZTE. In 2019, he offered to reverse criminal prosecution against Huawei if it would help in the trade deal—which, of course, was primarily about getting Trump re-elected in 2020.

<snip>

I hoped Trump would see these Hong Kong developments as giving him leverage over China. I should have known better. That same month, on the 30th anniversary of China’s massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Trump refused to issue a White House statement. “That was 15 years ago,” he said, inaccurately. “Who cares about it? I’m trying to make a deal. I don’t want anything.” And that was that.

<snip>

At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. The National Security Council’s top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China.

<snip>

Trump was particularly dyspeptic about Taiwan, having listened to Wall Street financiers who had gotten rich off mainland China investments. One of Trump’s favorite comparisons was to point to the tip of one of his Sharpies and say, “This is Taiwan,” then point to the historic Resolute desk in the Oval Office and say, “This is China.” So much for American commitments and obligations to another democratic ally.

<snip>

At most, the internal NSC structure was the quiver of a butterfly’s wings in the tsunami of Trump’s chaos. Despite the indifference at the top of the White House, the cognizant NSC staffers did their duty in the pandemic, raising options like shutdowns and social distancing far before Trump did so in March. The NSC biosecurity team functioned exactly as it was supposed to. It was the chair behind the Resolute desk that was empty.

 

[Flopper]

Oooooh baby, Bolton's ready to fight!!!

If WSJ is giving him ink, then Rupert Murdoch and Trump must not be lovin' each other much lately.



John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy

The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own reelection prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses

By John Bolton


June 17, 2020 2:46 pm ET

John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy

The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own re-election prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses.

www.wsj.com

The book is already a best seller on Amazon and it's not even out. Bolton’s volume which is an advanced copy from the publisher, is the first tell-all memoir by such a high-ranking official who participated in major foreign policy events and has a lifetime of conservative credentials. It is a withering portrait of a president ignorant of even basic facts about the world, susceptible to transparent flattery by authoritarian leaders manipulating him and prone to false statements, foul-mouthed eruptions and snap decisions that aides try to manage or reverse.
Many of the incidents that Bolton cities fit in very well with what we already know about Trump. His insights about Trump really hit the nail on the head. For instance:

Mr. Trump did not seem to know, for example, that Britain is a nuclear power and asked if Finland is part of Russia, Mr. Bolton writes. He came closer to withdrawing the United States from NATO than previously known. Even top advisers who position themselves as unswervingly loyal mock him behind his back. During Mr. Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korea’s leader, according to the book, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped Mr. Bolton a note disparaging the president, saying, “He is so full of shit.”

A month later, Mr. Bolton writes, Mr. Pompeo dismissed the president’s North Korea diplomacy, declaring that there was “zero probability of success.”

Intelligence briefings with the president were a waste of time “since much of the time was spent listening to Trump, rather than Trump listening to the briefers.” Mr. Trump likes pitting staff members against one another, at one point telling Mr. Bolton that former Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson had once referred to Nikki R. Haley, then the ambassador to the United Nations, by a sexist obscenity — an assertion Mr. Bolton seemed to doubt but found telling that the president would make it.

 

[JLW]

According to the book, Trump also encouraged Xi to place the Uighers in concentration camps. It is the most despicable thing an American President can advocate. I have no doubt that Trump would do this.

Trump told China's president that building concentration camps for millions of Uighur Muslims was 'exactly the right thing to do,' former adviser says

In a private meeting, Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping were only accompanied by their interpreters.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[BluesLegend]

ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses

Wait, there were no Beijing human rights abuses during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama presidencies? I smell a butthurt Washington swamp rat.

 

[Flopper]

Bolton is a butt hurt little bitch.

Trump didn't like his war mongering advice so he fired him. Little Pinocchio maker Bolton got butt hurt and decided to write a book attempting to trash the president just because he's a vindictive prick.

Yeah, you guys are running out of Republicans to trash. You can't keep up with Trump trashing them FIRST.

Bolton is not a democrat. He is a life long republican with a strong conservative agenda. In his book, he attacks democrats and their foolish attempts at impeachment. Bolton took the job as National Security Advisor because there were issues of foreign policy that he wanted to help the president enact, primarily moving always from various international agreements. Had this book come from some white house aid or appointee just trying to climb the political ladder, it might well be dismiss but John Bolton is a senior conservative republican and was so when Donald Trump was hob nobbling with the Clintons and other democrats. There is obvious many things that Bolton and Trump agree on. The one thing they disagree on is that Trump is ill informed on international politics and has no real interest in learning. Obviously Trump's primary interest being election politics and using the presidency as a means to further his re-election chances drove a wedge between the two.

 

[Nostra]

Oooooh baby, Bolton's ready to fight!!!

If WSJ is giving him ink, then Rupert Murdoch and Trump must not be lovin' each other much lately.



John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy

The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own reelection prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses

By John Bolton


June 17, 2020 2:46 pm ET

John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy

The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own re-election prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses.

www.wsj.com

The book is already a best seller on Amazon and it's not even out. Bolton’s volume which is an advanced copy from the publisher, is the first tell-all memoir by such a high-ranking official who participated in major foreign policy events and has a lifetime of conservative credentials. It is a withering portrait of a president ignorant of even basic facts about the world, susceptible to transparent flattery by authoritarian leaders manipulating him and prone to false statements, foul-mouthed eruptions and snap decisions that aides try to manage or reverse.
Many of the incidents that Bolton cities fit in very well with what we already know about Trump. His insights about Trump really hit the nail on the head. For instance:

Mr. Trump did not seem to know, for example, that Britain is a nuclear power and asked if Finland is part of Russia, Mr. Bolton writes. He came closer to withdrawing the United States from NATO than previously known. Even top advisers who position themselves as unswervingly loyal mock him behind his back. During Mr. Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korea’s leader, according to the book, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped Mr. Bolton a note disparaging the president, saying, “He is so full of shit.”

A month later, Mr. Bolton writes, Mr. Pompeo dismissed the president’s North Korea diplomacy, declaring that there was “zero probability of success.”

Intelligence briefings with the president were a waste of time “since much of the time was spent listening to Trump, rather than Trump listening to the briefers.” Mr. Trump likes pitting staff members against one another, at one point telling Mr. Bolton that former Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson had once referred to Nikki R. Haley, then the ambassador to the United Nations, by a sexist obscenity — an assertion Mr. Bolton seemed to doubt but found telling that the president would make it.

Bolton is gonna fleece millions of Single Digit IQ TDS afflicted morons like you out of $19.95....................and it won't affect the election one bit.

 

[Billiejeens]

Ima' gonna' order his book after all!

Weird
Previously faggot fuckers like you hated Bolton and anyone that thought like bolton, like poison.
Y'all suck off New heros pretty quickly.

 

[Billiejeens]

Bolton is a butt hurt little bitch.

Trump didn't like his war mongering advice so he fired him. Little Pinocchio maker Bolton got butt hurt and decided to write a book attempting to trash the president just because he's a vindictive prick.

Yeah, you guys are running out of Republicans to trash. You can't keep up with Trump trashing them FIRST.

Bolton is not a democrat. He is a life long republican with a strong conservative agenda. In his book, he attacks democrats and their foolish attempts at impeachment. Bolton took the job as National Security Advisor because there were issues of foreign policy that he wanted to help the president enact, primarily moving always from various international agreements. Had this book come from some white house aid or appointee just trying to climb the political ladder, it might well be dismiss but John Bolton is a senior conservative republican and was so when Donald Trump was hob nobbling with the Clintons and other democrats. There is obvious many things that Bolton and Trump agree on. The one thing they disagree on is that Trump is ill informed on international politics and has no real interest in learning. Obviously Trump's primary interest being election politics and using the presidency as a means to further his re-election chances drove a wedge between the two.

Definitely a republican, only a conservative in the sense that he is a war mongering hawk.
So that ruled out being a Democrat, unless one is Hillary who is also a hawk.
Trump has no interest
Surprising hire in the first place

 

[initforme]

Differing voices always, always, always make decision making better especially in govt. Someday you guys might figure that out rather than only seeing the world through your little lens.

 

[SmokeALib]

Trump is such a turd that he just can’t help degrading himself and the United States of America’s by asking foreign nations to help him win elections.

The House was right to impeach the POS. The Senate failed its constitutional duty by not convicting him. As Bolton says Trump’s misconduct and criminality knows no bounds.

 

[Flopper]

Bolton is a butt hurt little bitch.

Trump didn't like his war mongering advice so he fired him. Little Pinocchio maker Bolton got butt hurt and decided to write a book attempting to trash the president just because he's a vindictive prick.

Yeah, you guys are running out of Republicans to trash. You can't keep up with Trump trashing them FIRST.

Bolton is not a democrat. He is a life long republican with a strong conservative agenda. In his book, he attacks democrats and their foolish attempts at impeachment. Bolton took the job as National Security Advisor because there were issues of foreign policy that he wanted to help the president enact, primarily moving always from various international agreements. Had this book come from some white house aid or appointee just trying to climb the political ladder, it might well be dismiss but John Bolton is a senior conservative republican and was so when Donald Trump was hob nobbling with the Clintons and other democrats. There is obvious many things that Bolton and Trump agree on. The one thing they disagree on is that Trump is ill informed on international politics and has no real interest in learning. Obviously Trump's primary interest being election politics and using the presidency as a means to further his re-election chances drove a wedge between the two.

Definitely a republican, only a conservative in the sense that he is a war mongering hawk.
So that ruled out being a Democrat, unless one is Hillary who is also a hawk.
Trump has no interest
Surprising hire in the first place

The White House is not a place everyone would want to work.

 

[Flopper]

Trump is such a turd that he just can’t help degrading himself and the United States of America’s by asking foreign nations to help him win elections.

The House was right to impeach the POS. The Senate failed its constitutional duty by not convicting him. As Bolton says Trump’s misconduct and criminality knows no bounds.

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It just shows how polarized the country is. The Senate would not have convicted Trump regardless what he did. The outcome was determined before the House even started their preceding and everyone knew it. Republicans are going to regret refusing to conduct a trial and just dismissing the charges. That is going set a very ugly precedent which may make it impossible to remove a president from office.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Oooooh baby, Bolton's ready to fight!!!

If WSJ is giving him ink, then Rupert Murdoch and Trump must not be lovin' each other much lately.



John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy

The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own reelection prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses

By John Bolton


June 17, 2020 2:46 pm ET

John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy

The president pleaded with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for domestic political help, subordinated national-security issues to his own re-election prospects and ignored Beijing’s human-rights abuses.

www.wsj.com

Can you give us the gist? I can't read past a few sentences.

.

Some excerpts:

Trade matters were handled from day one in a completely chaotic way. Trump’s favorite way to proceed was to get small armies of people together, either in the Oval Office or the Roosevelt Room, to argue out these complex, controversial issues. Over and over again, the same issues. Without resolution, or even worse, one outcome one day and a contrary outcome a few days later. The whole thing made my head hurt.

<snip>


In Buenos Aires on Dec. 1, at dinner, Xi began by telling Trump how wonderful he was, laying it on thick. Xi read steadily through note cards, doubtless all of it hashed out arduously in advance. Trump ad-libbed, with no one on the U.S. side knowing what he would say from one minute to the next.

One highlight came when Xi said he wanted to work with Trump for six more years, and Trump replied that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him. Xi said the U.S. had too many elections, because he didn’t want to switch away from Trump, who nodded approvingly.

<snip>


Trump came close, unilaterally offering that U.S. tariffs would remain at 10% rather than rise to 25%, as he had previously threatened. In exchange, Trump asked merely for some increases in Chinese farm-product purchases, to help with the crucial farm-state vote. If that could be agreed, all the U.S. tariffs would be reduced. It was breathtaking.

Trump asked Lighthizer if he had left anything out, and Lighthizer did what he could to get the conversation back onto the plane of reality, focusing on the structural issues and ripping apart the Chinese proposal. Trump closed by saying Lighthizer would be in charge of the deal-making, and Jared Kushner would also be involved, at which point all the Chinese perked up and smiled.

<snip>

In their meeting in Osaka on June 29, Xi told Trump that the U.S.-China relationship was the most important in the world. He said that some (unnamed) American political figures were making erroneous judgments by calling for a new cold war with China.

Whether Xi meant to finger the Democrats or some of us sitting on the U.S. side of the table, I don’t know, but Trump immediately assumed that Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility to China among the Democrats. Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.

<snip>

Take Trump’s handling of the threats posed by the Chinese telecommunications firms Huawei and ZTE. Ross and others repeatedly pushed to strictly enforce U.S. regulations and criminal laws against fraudulent conduct, including both firms’ flouting of U.S. sanctions against Iran and other rogue states. The most important goal for Chinese “companies” like Huawei and ZTE is to infiltrate telecommunications and information-technology systems, notably 5G, and subject them to Chinese control (though both companies, of course, dispute the U.S. characterization of their activities).

Trump, by contrast, saw this not as a policy issue to be resolved but as an opportunity to make personal gestures to Xi. In 2018, for example, he reversed penalties that Ross and the Commerce Department had imposed on ZTE. In 2019, he offered to reverse criminal prosecution against Huawei if it would help in the trade deal—which, of course, was primarily about getting Trump re-elected in 2020.

<snip>

I hoped Trump would see these Hong Kong developments as giving him leverage over China. I should have known better. That same month, on the 30th anniversary of China’s massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Trump refused to issue a White House statement. “That was 15 years ago,” he said, inaccurately. “Who cares about it? I’m trying to make a deal. I don’t want anything.” And that was that.

<snip>

At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. The National Security Council’s top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China.

<snip>

Trump was particularly dyspeptic about Taiwan, having listened to Wall Street financiers who had gotten rich off mainland China investments. One of Trump’s favorite comparisons was to point to the tip of one of his Sharpies and say, “This is Taiwan,” then point to the historic Resolute desk in the Oval Office and say, “This is China.” So much for American commitments and obligations to another democratic ally.

<snip>

At most, the internal NSC structure was the quiver of a butterfly’s wings in the tsunami of Trump’s chaos. Despite the indifference at the top of the White House, the cognizant NSC staffers did their duty in the pandemic, raising options like shutdowns and social distancing far before Trump did so in March. The NSC biosecurity team functioned exactly as it was supposed to. It was the chair behind the Resolute desk that was empty.

None of this comes as a surprise, of course – Trump’s ignorance, Trump’s stupidity, Trump’s willingness to do anything to get reelected, no matter how wrong, reprehensible, or illegal.