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John Bolton has few friends left in D.C. A day after excerpts from his bombshell new book emerged excoriating President Donald Trump, the former national security adviser has managed to turn everyone against him.
Republicans say he’s a disgruntled sensationalist who’s merely trying to make money off his book. And Democrats, once buoyed by Bolton’s turn against Trump, now say he is “unpatriotic” for documenting his claims in a book rather than testifying before Congress during Trump’s impeachment inquiry.
I hope it's a good book deal John, because that's about all you have left. 😏
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/18/everybody-hates-john-bolton-328921
@mchill saidI for one do not hate him.
John Bolton has few friends left in D.C. A day after excerpts from his bombshell new book emerged excoriating President Donald Trump, the former national security adviser has managed to turn everyone against him.
Republicans say he’s a disgruntled sensationalist who’s merely trying to make money off his book. And Democrats, once buoyed by Bolton’s turn against Trump, now sa ...[text shortened]... you have left. 😏
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/18/everybody-hates-john-bolton-328921
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@mchill saidBolton's a right wing nut, but I give him credit for publishing the truth about the Donald however belatedly. The attempts to suppress his book by post-writing classification and prior restraint lawsuits has been rejected by the Courts. https://apnews.com/dd4d178b8050739c915e455e022347ae?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter
John Bolton has few friends left in D.C. A day after excerpts from his bombshell new book emerged excoriating President Donald Trump, the former national security adviser has managed to turn everyone against him.
Republicans say he’s a disgruntled sensationalist who’s merely trying to make money off his book. And Democrats, once buoyed by Bolton’s turn against Trump, now sa ...[text shortened]... you have left. 😏
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/18/everybody-hates-john-bolton-328921
We'll see if Barr really has the cajones to institute a criminal prosecution against him as Trump desires. And there's still a possibility that the government may succeed in imposing a trust and seizing his proceeds from his book ( see Snepp v. US https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/444/507/).
@no1marauder saidThe attempts to suppress his book have also been illuminating.
Bolton's a right wing nut, but I give him credit for publishing the truth about the Donald however belatedly. The attempts to suppress his book by post-writing classification and prior restraint lawsuits has been rejected by the Courts. https://apnews.com/dd4d178b8050739c915e455e022347ae?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter
We'll see if Barr really ...[text shortened]... oceeds from his book ( see Snepp v. US https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/444/507/).
@mghrn55 saidTrump's assertion that any private conversations with the President are "classified" is quite mind boggling.
The attempts to suppress his book have also been illuminating.
By contrast, two Defense Secretaries under Obama, Gates and Panetta, both wrote books about their tenure in office as did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, that were somewhat critical of the President. All were published during Obama's term. No legal attempts to suppress them was made. https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-critics-20141008-story.html
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@no1marauder said“ Bolton's a right wing nut, but I give him credit for publishing the truth about the Donald ”
Bolton's a right wing nut, but I give him credit for publishing the truth about the Donald however belatedly. The attempts to suppress his book by post-writing classification and prior restraint lawsuits has been rejected by the Courts. https://apnews.com/dd4d178b8050739c915e455e022347ae?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter
We'll see if Barr really ...[text shortened]... oceeds from his book ( see Snepp v. US https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/444/507/).
How do you know it is the truth?
hypocrisy is an ugly thing.
@no1marauder saidbut they went through the proper protocols...you are lying by omission.
Trump's assertion that any private conversations with the President are "classified" is quite mind boggling.
By contrast, two Defense Secretaries under Obama, Gates and Panetta, both wrote books about their tenure in office as did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, that were somewhat critical of the President. All were published during Obama's term. No legal attempts to suppress them was made. https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-critics-20141008-story.html
@mott-the-hoople saidSo did Bolton. He had cleared the review by the relevant person and then Trump put a political hack in charge to re-review the matter and decided to post-classify a bunch of material and thus stop publication. Everyone on earth knows that this was done not to protect "national security" but to suppress material embarrassing to the Idiot in Office:
but they went through the proper protocols...you are lying by omission.
"In their complaint the Trump administration cites to a nondisclosure agreement signed by Mr. Bolton which they allege he violated. This agreement, entitled “Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement,” was attached to the Justice Department complaint. But the Trump censors did not read the small print in the agreement. This agreement required the United States to review and approve Mr. Bolton’ book within 30-days. The agreement states: “I understand that the purpose of the [prepublication] review . . . is to give the United States a reasonable opportunity to determine whether” the publication contains classified information. This “reasonable opportunity” must be exercised “within a reasonable time, not to exceed 30 working days from date of receipt.”
Based on admissions in the complaint the U.S. government has blatantly violated the rules governing prepublication, and has waived any rights they may have to further suppress release of the book or to threaten Mr. Bolton with sanctions."
According to the Trump administration’s complaint the censor with responsibility to review Mr. Bolton’s book concluded that it had no classified information. This is remarkable. The government admits that the censor cleared the book for publication on April 27, 2020. As conceded in the complaint the censor “completed her review and was of the judgment that the manuscript draft did not contain classified information.”"
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/constitutional-vandalism-and-bolton-book-controversy
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Oh, Mopple
All the young dudes still carry the news, and tatted sleeves are the firearms 21st C.
The street walkers are the last of the purely organics. The netizens are turning and enriching the soil of the future, and some are even gauzing about in the Overworld in their sigiled diamond bodies.
@mott-the-hoople saidIf Trump says it isn't, we know it is. He's a pathological liar.
“ Bolton's a right wing nut, but I give him credit for publishing the truth about the Donald ”
How do you know it is the truth?
hypocrisy is an ugly thing.
Anyway, all of the instances mentioned ring true. Trump's willingness to try to get foreign nations to help him get re-elected has been well established. And as further proof, Trump's hatchet man at DOJ is now illegally trying to fire the head prosecutor of the Southern District of New York who prosecuted a Turkish company who the book says Trump had promised Turkish President Erdogan would be cleared:
"Mr. Bolton wrote in the book that Mr. Trump in 2018 had promised the Turkish president, Mr. Erdogan, that he would interfere in an ongoing investigation against a Turkish company accused of violating Iranian sanctions.
“Trump then told Erdogan he would take care of things, explaining that the Southern District prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people,” Mr. Bolton wrote, according to an excerpt published this week in The Washington Post.
At the time, Mr. Berman was the U.S. attorney overseeing the case. The company, Halkbank, a state-owned bank in Turkey, was indicted in the Southern District last year."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/barr-abruptly-seeks-to-fire-us-attorney-who-investigated-trump-associates/ar-BB15JHcW?li=BBnb7Kz
@mott-the-hoople saidDo you know what hypocrisy means?
“ Bolton's a right wing nut, but I give him credit for publishing the truth about the Donald ”
How do you know it is the truth?
hypocrisy is an ugly thing.
@mott-the-hoople saidSo did Bolton. He worked with the WH and jumped through their hoops, despite what the lying president says.
but they went through the proper protocols...you are lying by omission.