• “President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral prospects, according to a damning new account of life inside the Trump administration by former national security adviser John Bolton.”

• ‘“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Bolton writes. “He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”’

• “At the same meeting, Xi also defended China’s construction of camps housing up to 1 million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang — and Trump signaled his approval. “According to our interpreter,” Bolton writes, “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”

• “The request for electoral assistance from Xi is just one of many instances described by Bolton in which Trump seeks favors or approval from authoritarian leaders. "

• “In one May 2019 phone call, for example, Russian President Vladimir Putin compared Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, part of what Bolton terms a “brilliant display of Soviet style propaganda” to shore up support for Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Putin’s claims, Bolton writes, “largely persuaded Trump.”’

• “Bolton says he was so alarmed by Trump’s determination to do favors for autocrats such as Erdogan and Xi that he scheduled a meeting with Attorney General William P. Barr in 2019 to discuss his behavior. Bolton writes that Barr agreed he also was worried about the appearances created by the president’s behavior.”

• “Bolton attributes a litany of shocking statements to the president. Trump said invading Venezuela would be “cool” and that the South American nation was “really part of the United States.” Bolton says Trump kept confusing the current and former presidents of Afghanistan, while asking Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to help him strike a deal with Iran. And Trump told Xi that Americans were clamoring for him to change the constitutional rules to serve more than two terms, according to the book.”

• "Bolton also describes a summer 2019 meeting in New Jersey where Trump says journalists should be jailed so they have to divulge their sources: “These people should be executed. They are scumbags,” Trump said, according to Bolton's account."

• “For instance, driven by a desire to please Florida Republicans, Trump talked tough about his desire to oust Maduro throughout much of 2018. But Bolton portrays Trump as inconsistent and worry-worn when presented with the opportunity to support Guaido, who declared himself the nation’s president in January 2019. Though Trump approved of a proposal from Bolton to publicly declare the United States recognized Guaido rather than Maduro, within 30 hours Trump was already worrying that Guaido appeared weak — a “kid” compared to “tough” Maduro — and considering changing course. “You couldn’t make this up,” Bolton writes.”
  

The Room Where It Didn't Happen

It’s no secret Bolton has vast policy disagreements with President Trump and that’s what the core of the released excerpts reveal. Even Bolton’s “completely crazy” so-called China bombshell has already been fact checked as “absolutely untrue.”

Furthermore, the allegations Bolton makes in his book do not square with the extensive praise Bolton used to offer President Trump.

Bolton previously not only wrote that President Trump’s “concrete list of accomplishments” would “inevitably increase the power of America’s presence in the world,” he called President Trump a “dogged defender of American interests.”

So while Democrats and the Biden campaign rush to hype up Bolton’s book, reminder:

It wasn’t that long ago when Joe Biden blasted Bolton as a liar, said Bolton’s “modus operandi” is that “he would shade intelligence to move in the direction where he wanted to go” and criticized Bolton’s my way or the highway approach:  “anyone who disagreed with him, he’d try to get rid of.”

Bottom Line: If John Bolton truly witnessed what he claims, he should have said it then instead of selling lies for profit. Bolton is a liar who is clearly bitter that his warmongering advice was ignored. Fortunately, President Trump is putting America – not more wars – first!