Fox News has obtained former national security adviser John Bolton's upcoming 592-page memoir, 'The Room Where it Happened' -- and the manuscript contains several previously unreported claims of intrigue and realpolitik among key administration figures, past and present.
were that Bolton charged that President Trump regularly gives "personal favors to dictators he liked," backed the idea of more concentration camps in China, and asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him in the 2020 election by buying more U.S. agricultural goods.
Bolton served as national security adviser from April 2018 to September 2019 and was United Nations ambassador in the George W. Bush administration. The following are selected portions of Bolton's manuscript that shed additional light on his various publicized claims, as well as those that introduce new allegations.
While waiting in the Oval Office for a call from France's president, Bolton claims, "Trump railed away about Tillerson and how much he disliked him, recalling a dinner with Tillerson and Haley. Haley, said Trump, had some disagreement with Tillerson, who responded, 'Don't ever talk to me that way again.' Before Haley could say anything, Tillerson said, 'You're nothing but a c--t, and don't ever forget it.
In an "emotional" moment, Bolton goes on, Kelly produced "a picture of his son, killed in Afghanistan in 2010." Kelly, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, publicly sparred with Trump earlier this year when he defended Alexander Vindman, a key impeachment witness. which I couldn’t do fast enough, he knew full well that he was way over his head. Being Chief of Staff just wasn’t for him,” Trump tweeted in response.
"Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and 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.
"There were no winners in the trade war, said Xi, so we should eliminate the current tariffs, or at least agree there would be no new tariffs," the book reads. "I feared at that moment that Trump would simply say yes to everything Xi had laid out. He came close, unilaterally offering that US tariffs would remain at 10 percent rather than rise to 25 percent as he had threatened.
In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., holds redacted documents as he speaks during the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. "Had a Senate majority agreed to call witnesses and had I testified, I am convinced, given the environment then existing because of the House's impeachment malpractice, that it would have made no significant difference in the Senate outcome," Bolton writes.All the same, Bolton's book devotes substantial consideration to Ukraine, and the president's dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that led to his impeachment.
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, arrives on Capitol Hill, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, in Washington, before testifying to Congressional lawmakers as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2018, file photo,Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney for President Donald Trump, speaks in Portsmouth, N.H. Giuliani, says he’s being represented by three lawyers as federal prosecutors in New York look into his business dealings.
earlier this year led Trump to tweet "GAME OVER!" -- including an interview of Bolton in August 2019 where he appears to have no issues with Trump foreign policy concerning Ukraine or any other nation. The interview seemingly contradicted assertions in Bolton's book that Trump explicitly told him he wanted to tie military aid to Ukraine to an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden.
Bolton asserts that many key Trump advisers would tend toward describing life in the White House as philosopher Thomas Hobbes' described human existence: "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." And, the day then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis resigned, Trump told Bolton in the Oval Office: "He's leaving ... I never really liked him."
Days earlier, Trump tweeted that he had canceled the planned secret meeting after the Taliban claimed responsibility for a car bombing that killed a U.S. soldier, a Romanian soldier, and 10 civilians in Kabul earlier that week. "He was furious he was being portrayed as a fool, not that he put it that way," Bolton writes. "He said, 'A lot of people don't like you. They say you're a leaker and not a team player.' I wasn't about to let that go. I said I'd been subject to a campaign of negative leaks against me over the past several months, which I would be happy to describe in detail, and I'd also be happy to tell him who I thought the leaks were coming from.
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