The Donald Trump – John Bolton saga is about to get a whole lot stupider

| 8:28 pm EDT June 7, 2020
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After all that selfish nonsense where John Bolton didn’t want to testify during the House impeachment hearings because his book wasn’t ready yet, and then the Republican Senate decided not to have him testify during the impeachment trial, Bolton’s book never did get released. Now that’s apparently about to change, in what should make the Trump-Bolton saga even stupider.

Bolton could have released his book to great fanfare if he’d only been willing to do the smart and patriotic thing by testifying when he was supposed to. At this point, most people are too angry at him to have much interest in the book. But he’s apparently going to finally release it on June 23rd – a little more than two weeks from now – even if Trump continues to insist that it shouldn’t be released because it supposedly contains classified information. We’ll believe it when we see it; the book has already been pushed back several times and could be pushed back again. But if it is finally released this month, what will happen?

WaPo says that Bolton is planning a book tour complete with interviews with “network television channels” which we’d guess means something along the lines of 60 Minutes or Meet The Press. When you consider that Bolton’s book will alienate pro-Trump audiences, and Bolton’s antics have already alienated anti-Trump audiences, just who’s going to buy this book?

We’d just as soon no one buys John Bolton’s book. But there is the reality that the revelations in the book about Donald Trump’s criminal antics are arriving at a time when Trump’s presidency is in full scale collapse. The book could still do some minor damage to Trump, and it could put a number of House and Senate Republicans on the hot seat about whether they’re siding with Trump or Bolton. But really, no one is going to forgive Bolton for what he pulled.

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