Do Not Buy John Boltons Book. Borrow It and Do Not Have High Expectations From a Disgruntled White House Ferret by Martin Jay!
(2020-06-28 at 00:05:10 )

Do Not Buy John Boltons Book. Borrow It and Do Not Have High Expectations From a Disgruntled White House Ferret by Martin Jay!

Rex Tillerson was the only secretary of state to be fired; James -mad dog- Mattis wrote a strongly worded resignation letter rebuking Donald Trump foreign policy behaviour, and became the first ever Secretary of Defence to resign in protest; Michael Flynn resigned after being embroiled in the Mueller Report, misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his links with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak - and is rumoured to have told Donald Trump "Iran, sir" when the new United States president called out "Mike, who are the bad guys in the Middle East?".

And then there is John Bolton, a frustrated old man who believed he could redeem himself from draft dodging by starting a war with Iran. His golden moment with Donald Trump which really made him look the fool he looks was probably his comment to the North Korean dictator about following the Libya model and what the United States did to Gaddafi when he fell out of line.

John Bolton is probably the most unremarkable National Security Advisor America has ever had. Donald Trump, to his credit, did not take his advice on key matters like Afghanistan, North Korea and, importantly, Iran where the United States president was minutes away from pressing the button and starting an all-out war in the Gulf.

What John Boltons book tells us about the man is that he is a craven, self-serving individual who is only really interested in promoting himself. When the world needed John Bolton the most, at the Mueller inquiry, he shied away from the cameras and the publicity and this is what United States of Americans will remember him for.

The chronicles of his book are amusing, but of course are based on a revengeful, spiteful agenda of bringing Donald Trump down, as, unlike others, John Bolton chose to specifically publish months before the election, rather than in the weeks after it.

Donald Trump not knowing that the United Kingdom was a nuclear power or where Finland was is quite funny, but not really shocking. John Bolton of course paints a picture of Donald Trump being a rambunctious cretin who could barely master the remote control on his own gorilla TV console, let alone understand the complexities of a trade agreement with even his most loyal sycophants like Mike Pompeo even writing in a memo that the president was "full of shit".

All very amusing and which today is accumulating to become an aggregate source of satire probably for the next 30 years as America comes to terms with the fact that the United States president has the mental age of a demented primate and is tormented by torrents of insecurity and low self-esteem and can only visually grasp information if it is shaped so as to accentuate his enfeebled personality.

It really is all about Donald Trump. And this is the darker side of the John Bolton book which is worrying. Mr. Bolton does not really reveal anything shocking, but merely confirms what we are all really very worried about: Donald Trump really is as self-obsessed like all mad dictators around the world.

And on that subject, the huge let down of the book is how John Bolton confirms that the Democrats just stopped short of impeachment being successful if they would have gone the full nine yards and dug deeper.

In reality the scandal of the Ukraine affair whereby Donald Trump holds back aid in exchange for political favours was duplicated with other leaders around the world, like Erdogan in Turkey and in particular China.

One of the reasons why Donald Trump went to extraordinary lengths initially to speak up for the Chinese is a misunderstanding over whether Xi would help him secure a second term; when it became clear that the Chinese leader had no intention of doing that, and that, in fact, due to corona could barely keep his end of the bargain on the so-called "art of the deal" Trump-China trade deal, then Donald threw a massive tantrum and hit China with sanctions over the very issue which he previously supported, Muslim concentration camps.

John Bolton reveals that almost every single decision, no matter how small, were viewed through a tawdry prism of re-election at any cost - with a claim by him that Donald Trump had ideas of running for three terms and was looking at how to re-write the constitution.

But the real stand-off between these two men came on Iran. Bolton obviously wanted a war with Iran after Tehran shot down a 130m dollar United States drone. Donald Trump just saw body bags and a thwarted re-election and so the seeds of discourse were sown, which perhaps led to other decision of a similar vain.

No one to this day in the United States of America can explain Donald Trump pulling out of Afghanistan and making the Taliban - and enemy of 19 years - now a partner in "fighting terrorism". Perhaps Donald Trump is not merely stupid, which the book asserts quite vociferously, with numerous anecdotes of him failing to grasp simple facts that a high school kid could master, but actually losing his mind. Has dementia set in? The constant confusion in Afghanistan as Donald Trump repeatedly confused the former President with the new one troubled John Bolton.

Yet, a big part of painting a picture of Donald Trump being a useful idiot is to promote John Bolton as smart and noble, which the reader struggles to swallow in the end.

John Bolton was in the room where all this happened and did not have the balls to stand up to Donald Trump on most of the stupid things Donald did as President. And that has to be a stain on John Boltons character and something which tarnishes this kiss-and-tell tome. Most people who Donald Trump hires are under-achievers, weak, sycophants who all have one thing in common: corrupt, like Donald Trump himself. The king roach attracts a certain type of weak and delusional understudy whose chief performing skills are to lick boots and occasionally steal the limelight. Some master the art of staying in the job like Mike Pompeo who my sources tell me has ambitions himself in the Oval Office. Read the book, but hold only contempt for John Bolton, a fidgeting weasel of no great talent who really managed to achieve nothing while in office and who really should rename the book The room where I watched and did nothing.

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