# Bolton book on Trump coming out **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 12, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547 "2020-06-12T16:32:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/1 "2020-06-12T16:32:00Z")
Trump is only interested in getting re-elected. Who knew? I have this feeling Trump will start going after Bolton, maybe as early as today. And some liberals will have mixed feelings since they are no fan of Bolton. > ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/2 "2020-06-12T16:37:20Z")
I fully expect Mike Pompeo, if he is ever forced out of office, to also write about Trump’s staggering flaws. We’ve seen Bolton, Bannon, etc. blow the whistle on the guy now. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/3 "2020-06-12T16:38:12Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Trump is only interested in getting re-elected. Who knew? > > I have this feeling Trump will start going after Bolton, maybe as early as today. > > And some liberals will have mixed feelings since they are no fan of Bolton. > > [https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1271443359824072704](https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1271443359824072704) Seriously, so f\*cking what? Another carefully measured treatise from an insider on what a total moron Trump is? Isn’t there a whole shelf-full of those already? ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/4 "2020-06-12T16:45:46Z")
Nobody at the level of Bolton has put out a Trump book have they? As far as insiders go. People have talked about him like Tillerson, Kelly, Mattis, etc. but none of them have put out a book yet. ---
**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/5 "2020-06-12T16:49:40Z")
Will his book sales be affected because he did not offer crucial information he has to the impeachment trial? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/6 "2020-06-12T16:51:33Z")
This would be more interesting if I parse the thread title the other way: Trump is coming out, and Bolton has a book on it. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/7 "2020-06-12T16:57:17Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Seriously, so f\*cking what? Another carefully measured treatise from an insider on what a total moron Trump is? Isn’t there a whole shelf-full of those already? Bolton supposedly has the inside scoop on the Ukraine scandal that got Trump impeached. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/8 "2020-06-12T17:00:38Z")
The fact that he criticized the Democrats for not doing more during impeachment makes we want to put my balls in boiling black kettle filled with irony water. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/9 "2020-06-12T17:04:42Z")
I won’t buy it. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/10 "2020-06-12T17:05:57Z")
Wonder if the book tour includes Fox news. That would be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/11 "2020-06-12T17:19:31Z")
Bolton had the chance to do the right thing and appear before the House impeachment inquiry. He put his future book sales before his concern for the nation. If his book convinces some not to vote for Twitface, then fine. But I don’t think his book will have any impact on the voting. If I see the book at a garage sale for a quarter, I might buy it. Else I’ll let the talking heads on TV tell me what’s in it. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/12 "2020-06-12T18:23:01Z")
If Bolton said Trump was the devil it would not have mattered. The GOP was not going to remove Trump. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/13 "2020-06-12T18:30:04Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > This would be more interesting if I parse the thread title the other way: Trump is coming out, and Bolton has a book on it. :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/14 "2020-06-12T19:26:29Z")
[John Bolton’s spinelessness has come back to haunt him](https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/john-boltons-spinelessness-has-come-back-to-haunt-him/), Cody Fenwick, _Alternet_, June 11, 2020. TL;DR: If Bolton had chosen to testify at the impeachment hearings, it would have been “explosive”. If he then had gotten his book out when that was all in the news and everyone was focused on that, it would have been a mega-blockbuster. But now? The impeachment is ancient history. People have other things to think about these days. Who’s going to be interested in this book now? It’s going to be a dud. ETA: What **BobLibDem** said. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > Bolton had the chance to do the right thing and appear before the House impeachment inquiry. He put his future book sales before his concern for the nation. If his book convinces some not to vote for Twitface, then fine. But I don’t think his book will have any impact on the voting. If I see the book at a garage sale for a quarter, I might buy it. Else I’ll let the talking heads on TV tell me what’s in it. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/15 "2020-06-12T21:22:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Who’s going to be interested in this book now? It’s going to be a dud. Maybe, but it’s #16 on Amazon and hasn’t been released yet. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/16 "2020-06-15T01:58:42Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Maybe, but it’s #16 on Amazon and hasn’t been released yet. Today it’s #11. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/17 "2020-06-15T02:11:18Z")
“How Am I Supposed to Live Without You” was a good song. Oh, _John_ Bolton, not \*Michael \*Bolton. Ever since that happened, I’m not interested in John. I’m not really interested in Michael either but if I had to choose…? John could have weighed in with useful info about Trump and chose not to. I won’t be buying the book. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/18 "2020-06-15T04:23:43Z")
George T. Conway III, writing in Washington Post, offers his analysis and opinion of why Bolton is publishing his book now and not then, and why he didn’t testify at the impeachment trial. [John Bolton made a tragic mistake. It’s not the one you might think.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/14/john-bolton-made-tragic-mistake-its-not-one-you-might-think/), June 14, 2020. TL;DR: He thinks Bolton really really wanted to testify and make mincemeat of Trump. But he wanted to do it only under subpoena, to make it look like he would be testifying against his will – otherwise Trump and the Pubs would try to discredit him by saying he’s just a disgruntled ex-exployee. So Bolton estimated that at least a few Republican Senators would uphold their oaths of office and vote to subpoena him – it would only have taken four. And that was Bolton’s big blunder, thinking that even a mere four Pub Senators would vote to hear him. In fact, only two did, and he was not subpoenaed. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/19 "2020-06-15T05:26:56Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > But he wanted to do it only under subpoena, to make it look like he would be testifying against his will – otherwise Trump and the Pubs would try to discredit him by saying he’s just a disgruntled ex-exployee. So he chose self-preservation over the interest of the nation. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547/20 "2020-06-15T07:33:21Z")
Bolton is a warmongering asshole who’d have the world embroiled in global nuclear war within ten minutes if he had his way. But from a purely scientific perspective, I find it fascinating that that scary thing on his upper lip must have some fairly close genetic relationship to the scary thing that lives atop Trump’s head. The interesting question is: do these bizarre fungal growths _ **cause** _ unhinged derangement, or are they symptomatic _ **indicators** _ of unhinged derangement? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolton-book-on-trump-coming-out/855547.md?page=2)