Trump Sues Bolton over Book Release

[Trebuchet]

I think that his ambition was to become something like the Henry Kissinger of this century, the guy behind the president telling him how to fight the wars against the perceived enemies of the USA that he hoped to be able to persuade Trump to wage.
I guess the point of the book is to express his disappointment that he never succeed in persuading Trump to declare any of the wars he dreamed of.

Agree. He wants to be Secretary of State.

 

[Mojo]

Yep. Outside the US this is sometime referred to as "The Spycatcher Effect" (in the US, I think they call it "The Streisand Effect" for similar reasons).

Trump hasn't learned the lesson from former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, that is better to shut up and not bring attention to things you don't want people to notice, than take umbrage and make a big issue of it.

Spycatcher, Peter Wright's long and boring tome about the British Intelligence services would probably had gone mostly unnoticed had it not been for Thatcher bringing a lot of attention to it by trying to stop publication and have it banned. As a result, it sold a couple of million copies, and Wright died a millionaire.

I don’t suppose this would have happened either. I think I have a copy somewhere.

 

[shemp]

You can head to Quora for that. There are actual Trump supporters there whose clarity and candor will at the very least answer the question why a skeptics forum turned into an anti-trumpian echo chamber.

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Wh...t-is-Trump-so-desperately?q=trump sues bolton

Registration is required, but it's free to use.

McHrozni

Why is he threatening to sue her? Because he's a psychotic douche with a ton of **** to hide.

What is he desperately trying to hide? Perhaps that his financial empire is built on Russian money and that he really is in Putin's pocket and takes his orders. Just speculation, but there might be stuff in this relationship that could get a treason conviction and an actual death penalty, and leave him permanently bankrupted. And to Bunker Boy, being permanently bankrupted is worse.

 

[acbytesla]

I don't think it is a civil suit considering the DOJ filed it. They are seeking an injunction. The problem of course is a conflict between actual classified info and prior restraint.

I was wrong. They aren't seeking an injunction. The administration is simply suing. This is a bizarre legal strategy. The book has been printed. It has been shipped. Book tour and tv and radio appearances have been scheduled. The court won't be hearing the case until after the book is released to the public which is June 22nd.

I just read about the judge who has been assigned to the case. A judge who has a reputation of landing on the side of transparency.

It really seems as if Trump is trying to help Bolton sell the book.

 

[shemp]

I was wrong. They aren't seeking an injunction. The administration is simply suing. This is a bizarre legal strategy. The book has been printed. It has been shipped. Book tour and tv and radio appearances have been scheduled. The court won't be hearing the case until after the book is released to the public which is June 22nd.

I just read about the judge who has been assigned to the case. A judge who has a reputation of landing on the side of transparency.

It really seems as if Trump is trying to help Bolton sell the book.

Trump is just in full panic mode. He's like as if the captain of the Titanic was running around on deck swigging liberally from a bottle of rum and shooting at the passengers and blaming them.

 

[Horatius]

It really seems as if Trump is trying to help Bolton sell the book.

You know what this means, right?


Trump is getting a cut.

You read it here first!

 

[Mader Levap]

It is not bizarre. Trump is simply just as competent in stopping book that he does not like as in fighting with COVID-19. Starting from very delayed response, when it is already too late.

 

[varwoche]

Juicy tidbits are coming out.

He leaned on China for re-election help. Supposedly every foreign policy decision was based on re-election calculations.

 

[dmaker]

So far, the few details that have trickled out will not prove that damning for Trump.

He asked China to purchase American farm products to help American farmers. That this was driven by his desire to win re-election will not matter to most.

Boltons claim that Trump called for the execution of journalists will be brushed off as a lie, while inwardly Trump supporters will cheer.

 

[Stacyhs]

Bolton has made some absolutely jaw dropping allegations in his book.

1. Trump tried to get Xi to help him win re-election.
2. Obstruction of justice is a 'way of life' for Trump.
3. Trump knew of, and approved of, Xi setting up concentration camps for the Muslim
Uyghers.
4. Xi told Trump he wanted to work with him for another six years and that the two term
limit was wrong. Trump nodded in agreement.

 

[blutoski]

His mustache makes him look like one of those little dogs that look like they have that same mustache.

Sadly, for the past 16 years, I have seen it the other way around.

Those poor little dogs have a Bolton mustache.

PS: Hitler ruined a perfectly good 'stache too.

 

[dmaker]

The things that have come out so far will certainly not be good for Trump, but in my opinion his handling of the pandemic and his reactions to the recent protests will be, if anything, the nail in his re-election coffin.

The recent events are demonstrably true for all to see. Anything Bolton alleges will enjoy zero support from anyone else. His word vs Trumps word.

 

[Stacyhs]

The things that have come out so far will certainly not be good for Trump, but in my opinion his handling of the pandemic and his reactions to the recent protests will be, if anything, the nail in his re-election coffin.

The recent events are demonstrably true for all to see. Anything Bolton alleges will enjoy zero to no support from anyone else. His word vs Trumps word.

For his base, I agree. For independents, they'll matter. For reluctant 2016 Trump voters, they'll matter.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Anything Bolton alleges will enjoy zero support from anyone else. His word vs Trumps word.

Yeah, that would be a safe defense for literally anybody other than Trump. Trump is not capable of sitting in silence, refusing to engage, and rising above what someone says about him. Trump is going to respond. Trump is going to open his fat mouth and, like every time Trump opens his fat mouth, something stupid and self-damaging is going to drop out of it. He cannot help himself.

 

[alfaniner]

His mustache makes him look like one of those little dogs that look like they have that same mustache.

Sir Didymus.

Bolton has made some absolutely jaw dropping allegations in his book.

1. Trump tried to get Xi to help him win re-election.
2. Obstruction of justice is a 'way of life' for Trump.
3. Trump knew of, and approved of, Xi setting up concentration camps for the Muslim
Uyghers.
4. Xi told Trump he wanted to work with him for another six years and that the two term
limit was wrong. Trump nodded in agreement.

This is what I was talking about potentially getting so pissed off about before. If any of that is true, it should have come out in the Impeachment hearing. **** Bolton for not appearing.

If everything is false, **** Bolton for being as much a liar as The PDJT.

 

[dmaker]

I wonder if we are going to hear a repeat of the impeachment defense where anything the President does that he believes to be good for the country, including re-election, is fine and lawful.

 

[BobTheCoward]

I wonder if we are going to hear a repeat of the impeachment defense where anything the President does that he believes to be good for the country, including re-election, is fine and lawful.

Which is the correct argument.

 

[dmaker]

Bolton will take a credibility hit by not testifying and withholding this information until now where he can profit from book sales.

It will still be fun to watch PDJT suffer while trying to fend off the allegations.

 

[pgwenthold]

I wonder if we are going to hear a repeat of the impeachment defense where anything the President does that he believes to be good for the country, including re-election, is fine and lawful.

That was the first thing that jumped to my mind

 

[Stacyhs]

Sir Didymus.



This is what I was talking about potentially getting so pissed off about before. If any of that is true, it should have come out in the Impeachment hearing. **** Bolton for not appearing.

If everything is false, **** Bolton for being as much a liar as The PDJT.

IIRC, Bolton did offer to appear before the Senate but the GOP Senators (except Collins? Murkowsky? and Romney) voted down having 'new' testimony presented.
Of course, Bolton may have known/suspected that would happen so offering to appear could have been a calculated risk on his part to look good.