Donald Trump berated John Bolton, calling him “sick puppy” and called the book “fiction”
Washington:
Donald Trump’s presidency was boiling on Thursday after his former assistant John Bolton declared him unfit for office in an explosive book and the Supreme Court blocked a key part of his re-election vow to expel the undocumented .
The growing drama surrounding the already rocky re-election of the Republican raised the stakes of its rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday – the first it will have held since the start of the shutdown of the American coronavirus, but mired in controversy over his security.
Trump’s once extremely confident march toward a second term was already in a hole due to criticism over his responses to the coronavirus pandemic and to national protests against racism.
A Supreme Court decision against the administration’s attempt to remove protections from hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants classified as “dreamers” dealt another blow.
Trump’s platform is largely based on his promise to suppress illegal immigration. His effort to expel the “Dreamers” symbolized this harsh position.
The decision was doubly spicy because Trump has long boasted that his appointment of two judges had succeeded in tilting the country’s Supreme Court to the right.
In an explosion on Twitter, Trump called this and other recent decisions he didn’t like “shotgun explosions in the faces of people who are proud to call themselves Republicans.”
He also faced an insider attack from Bolton, a longtime Republican who saw Trump up close as a national security adviser.
“I don’t think he’s fit for the office. I don’t think he has the skill to do the job,” Bolton told ABC News to promote his book, “The Room Where It Happened.”
The book – which the White House is desperately trying to block through a court ruling – alleges that Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him get re-elected, obstructed justice and failed to measure up to the president Russian Vladimir Putin.
“Putin thinks he can play it like a violin,” Bolton told ABC.
Trump, who has assiduously built his image of a harsh president toward China, lambasted Bolton, calling him a “sick puppy” and calling the book “fiction.”
In an apparent attempt to underscore his firm stance, Trump threatened in a tweet that “complete decoupling” between the deeply entangled economies of the United States and China was an “option”. The day before, its hawkish trade ambassador, Robert Lighthizer, told Congress that this would be impractical.
“Back on the road”?
Trump will fly to Tulsa on Saturday to hold his first election rally since March.
With his experience in TV shows and his natural populist flair, Trump is much happier in front of enthusiastic crowds than in official White House executives.
He is “very happy to be back on the road,” said his advisor Kellyanne Conway.
He hopes that the razzmatazz and the energy of the crowd of 20,000 people will relaunch his re-election, which shows that the polls currently make him lose heavily against the democrat Joe Biden. Even if the Americans only relax slowly, several other rallies are already planned.
Trump will also have to hope that he will not go down in history as the president who put political rallies before people’s lives.
Tulsa sees a local spike in coronavirus cases, and the city’s main newspaper, the state health chief, and many others have warned that the huge crowd in a confined space could become a viral incubator.
A trial in a Tulsa court to try to stop the rally called him a “super-broadcaster” virus.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, a Republican, said on Thursday “it’s going to be safe and we’re really, really excited.” And the Trump campaign says it will take temperatures and distribute masks to rally fans.
Significantly, however, it also forces anyone present to sign a release, which makes them unable to hold the organizers responsible for the disease.
Trump’s rally in Tulsa suffered a new setback when it was originally scheduled for this Friday, which is June 19 or the “June” anniversary of the end of slavery in the United States.
In the midst of mounting racial tensions and anger from civil rights groups during its handling of police violence protests, which took on a bad tone and Trump was forced to move on to Saturday.
“No one had ever heard of it,” he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Thursday. “I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous.”
In fact, the White House publishes a statement commemorating the occasion each year, which is also marked by almost all American states.
(With the exception of the title, this story was not edited by GalacticGaming staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
