Bolton's Unpatriotic "Buy My Book" Tour

Former National Security Advisor and mustache support system John "Loose Bolt" Bolton has a book to sell, and its sale is more important than the security of the U.S. We know that because Bolton has been on a self-flattering book tour to hawk his book, "The Room Where It Happened," and he won't tell us what the "It" was (crime? treason? toga parties?) because that might dampen sales, even with a threat by criminal organization boss Donald "Cheat-o" Trump to classify its contents and deny publication.

Yesterday at Duke University, Bolton played bob and weave when asked questions about Trump's shakedown call to Ukrainian President Zelensky and the political errand of manufacturing dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, among other Trump depredations. The university had booked (no pun intended) Bolton to discuss his time in the Trump regime's inner circle, specifically on foreign policy matters. But the right-wing hawk put his book sales above country once again as he did during Trump's impeachment, telling his audience to buy his book to find out. From Daily Kos:

"The response to any attempt to solicit information from Bolton or to get him to confirm any item that came up in the House hearings or Senate trial of Trump was never anything more than some variation on 'Wait for the book.' The evening was far more a promotion for a book no one can buy than it was a musing on national security.

The highlight in a frustrating list of frustrations may have come when Bolton was asked whether he considered Trump’s July 25 call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky 'perfect,' as Trump has so often called it. "You'll love Chapter 14," said Bolton. It went that way throughout the evening."

It would be poetic justice if someone leaked the entire manuscript of pseudo patriot Bolton's book, so that everyone could read it free of charge. That way, Trump's attempt at suppressing it and Bolton's attempt to profit from it would be moot.

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