The recent raid on the home and office of former National Security Advisor John Bolton, ostensibly to search for classified documents, reiterates a familiar narrative about Donald Trump’s abuse of power.
The raid is seen by many as a form of political vengeance against a former critic, ironically mirroring the very charges on which Trump himself was indicted for illegally possessing classified documents after leaving office, some of which reportedly contained nuclear secrets.
Bolton, in turn, exacted his own form of revenge by publishing his 2020 memoir, The Room Where It Happened, despite Trump’s feverish attempts to prevent its publication.
The book is intriguing for its revelations, among them, that Trump expressed his surprise to learn that the U.K. was a nuclear power and his confusion as to whether Finland was a part of Russia.
Further, that he asked China President Xi Jinping’s help with his 2020 reelection campaign by increasing US imports of agriculture products, while expressing approval of China’s concentration camps for Uygur Muslims and willingness to overlook the Tiananmen Square massacre and other civil rights issues.
Bolton says that Trump pressured Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens, meanwhile withholding $400 million in military aid.
He hasn’t changed any, as his recent fawning over Putin in Alaska clearly demonstrates—incompetent, vindictive, narcissistic, autocratic and worse, willing to sell out his country to secure his personal interests.
–rj
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