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Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post " Democrats and Republicans react to John Bolton's b... ": Battling over what is deemed classified information. The Justice Department has gone to court to stop the book from being published, arguing that it has classified information in it and that it was not cleared by a prepublication review required of former government officials like Mr. Bolton. In fact, according to his lawyer, Charles J. Cooper, Mr. Bolton participated in an extensive back-and-forth over the book and agreed to all of the revisions mandated by the career official who reviewed it or came up with acceptable alternatives. Only when the review was over did another official, Michael J. Ellis, a political appointee, step in to review it all over again at the instruction of Robert C. O'Brien, Mr. Bolton's successor as national security adviser. If there is classified information still in the book, it is hard to figure out what it might be. There...

Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post " Democrats and Republicans react to John Bolton's b... ": Describing a toxic environment inside the administration. Over a long career in and out of Republican administrations in Washington, Mr. Bolton has rarely shied from giving his opinions, usually born of strong conservative national security convictions that have made him one of the capital's most outspoken hawks advocating the use of military power and sanctions. While he agreed with Mr. Trump on issues like getting out of the nuclear accord with Iran, he found himself repeatedly trying to stop the president from making concessions to other rogue states or making an ill-considered peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan while pushing for a more robust use of force against outliers like Iran or Syria. He considered Mr. Trump's diplomacy to be folly. To Mr. Bolton, Mr. Trump's decision to meet North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore was...

Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post " Democrats and Republicans react to John Bolton's b... ": Mr. Bolton also mentions ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications giant that was convicted of evading sanctions on Iran and North Korea and then faced new penalties for further violations during its follow-up consent decree. During a conversation on trade with President Xi Jinping of China, Mr. Trump offered to lighten the penalties. "Xi replied that if that were done, he would owe Trump a favor and Trump immediately responded he was doing this because of Xi," Mr. Bolton writes. He called himself "appalled" and "stunned" by the idea of intervening in a criminal investigation to let a sanctions buster off the hook. In the end, at Mr. Trump's behest, the Justice Department accepted a $1 billion fine and lifted a seven-year ban on buying American products, an act of lenience that saved the company from going out of business. A new alle...

Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post " Democrats and Republicans react to John Bolton's b... ": Singling out episodes of "obstruction of justice as a way of life." The other episodes that Mr. Bolton says the House should have investigated include Mr. Trump's willingness to intervene in Justice Department investigations against foreign companies to "give personal favors to dictators he liked." Mr. Bolton said it appeared to be "obstruction of justice as a way of life." He singles out Halkbank of Turkey, a state-owned financial institution investigated for a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade American sanctions on Iran. At a side encounter during a Buenos Aires summit meeting in late 2018, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey handed Mr. Trump a memo by the law firm representing Halkbank, "which Trump did nothing more than flip through before declaring he believed Halkbank was totally innocent." He then told M...

Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post " Democrats and Republicans react to John Bolton's b... ": Explaining a lack of testimony, and placing blame on Democrats. As the book nears publication and details spill out, many congressional Democrats quickly assailed Mr. Bolton for not telling his story during the impeachment proceedings and instead saving it for his $2 million book. Mr. Bolton explains his position in the epilogue, saying he wanted to wait to see if a judge would order his former deputy to testify over White House objections. House Democrats opted not to pursue the case, fearing endless litigation. Once the House impeached Mr. Trump over the Ukraine matter, Mr. Bolton volunteered to testify in the Senate trial that followed if subpoenaed. But Senate Republicans voted to block new testimony by him and any other witnesses even after The New York Times reported that his forthcoming book would confirm the quid pro quo. Some of those Republican senato...

Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post " President Donald Trump reacted to the stunning acc... ": Leak intrigue On Sept. 9, 2019, Trump told Bolton in the Oval Office that the press coverage concerning his canceled Camp David meeting with Taliban and Afghan leaders was highly unfair, according to the memoir. 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. "Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday," Trump tweeted. "They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers, and 11 other people. I immediately cancelled [sic] the meetin...

Erin Burnett has left a new comment on your post " President Donald Trump reacted to the stunning acc... ": 'Axis of adults' Bolton begins the memoir by dismissing "Washington's conventional wisdom on Trump's trajectory," saying it is largely "wrong" and "intellectually lazy" to conclude, as many have, that the president was held in check by an "axis of adults" during his first fifteen months in office. That overall picture is "simplistic," Bolton writes. In fact, the "axis of adults in many respects caused enduring problems not because they successfully managed Trump ... but because they did precisely the opposite. They didn't do nearly enough to establish order, and what they did do was so transparently self-serving and so publicly dismissive of many of Trump's very clear goals (whether worthy or unworthy) that they fed Trump's already-suspicious mindset, making it harder for those who ...