John Bolton was Trump’s third national security advisor for a total of 519 days. (File)
Washington:
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton has written a book that provides insider accounts of President Donald Trump’s “inconsistent and dispersed decision-making process,” his editor said on Friday.
Bolton’s “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir” is due to be published on June 23 on the objections of the White House, which has dithered with representatives of Bolton over whether parts of its account reveal classified information.
Bolton was fired by Trump last September amid thrilling differences over a wide range of foreign policy challenges.
The editor, Simon and Schuster, said in a press release that Bolton’s book details Trump’s relations with China, Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, Iran, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
“This is the book that Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read,” said the editor.
“What Bolton saw surprised him: a president for re-election was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation,” he added.
“I have trouble identifying any important Trump decision during my tenure that was not motivated by re-election calculations,” Bolton writes in the book, according to the editor.
Bolton was Trump’s third national security advisor for a total of 519 days. A meticulous note taker, Bolton was in the room for a number of key foreign policy meetings.
Bolton argues that the Democrat-led US House of Representatives should have extended its impeachment investigation against Trump last year beyond questions of whether Trump had invited foreign interference from Ukraine.
His book says that “Trump’s Ukrainian-style transgressions existed across the whole range of his foreign policy – and Bolton documents exactly what they were, and attempts by him and other members of the administration to ring the bell alarm about them, “said the editor.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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