After reading John Bolton’s book, “The Room Where It Happened,” I’ve concluded (1) he considers himself to have been the ablest person in the Trump administration, (2) that every negative thing we’ve seen and heard from and about our president is true, and then some, (3) that he, Bolton, never met a pact or a treaty he liked, and (4) his unwillingness to testify at the impeachment hearings was because he considered them to be “impeachment malpractice,” even though his book reveals that the charges against Trump in the Ukraine matter were true.
Bolton maintains that Trump was acquitted by the Senate not because of the well-established belief that the Republicans were going to acquit Trump no matter what arguments were presented, but because of the “partisan approach” to the impeachment by House Democrats. Without his customary venom, he mentions the fact that the Republican majority allowed no witnesses to testify, but that, if subpoenaed, he would have testified. Translation: He knew he wouldn’t have to testify.
The book makes clear not only the horrors of the Trump administration but that Bolton, who even calls himself a “hard-liner,” is a dangerous person to be in government during the nuclear age.
I didn’t enjoy what I read. Rather, I came away from it more frightened than before I opened it. I am now reading “RAGE,” Bob Woodward’s book based primarily on his extensive interviews with Trump. I’m nearly finished. Stay tuned.
No comments:
Post a Comment