The Times got a copy of John Bolton’s book and hoo-boy:
Mr. Bolton’s volume is the first tell-all memoir by such a high-ranking official who participated in major foreign policy events and has a lifetime of conservative credentials. It is a withering portrait of a president ignorant of even basic facts about the world, susceptible to transparent flattery by authoritarian leaders manipulating him and prone to false statements, foul-mouthed eruptions and snap decisions that aides try to manage or reverse.
There are a lot of words in Pete Baker’s piece but an important one is missing: treason. Bolton said Donald Trump was explicit about holding up aid to Ukraine in exchange for that country’s help with the 2020 presidential election.
Trump “said he wasn’t in favor of sending them anything until all the Russia-investigation materials related to Clinton and Biden had been turned over.”
And there’s more. Trump asked China for help too.
Mr. Bolton also recounts a discussion at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Osaka, Japan, last summer at which the president overtly linked policy to his own political fortunes as he asked Mr. Xi to buy a lot of American agricultural products to help him win farm states in this year’s election. Mr. Trump, he writes, was “pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome.”
When a president sells out his country, when he asks other countries to help win at home, when he holds his interests above the interests of his country—that’s treason.
That’s betray of a highest order. I don’t know why we don’t use that word more often.
Let me know what you think. —John Stoehr
Trump is a complete waste of good peoples' oxygen.
Republicans didn't care that he committed treason with Ukraine so I am under no illusion that this would be any different.