War Criminal John Bolton Says Trump Isn't 'Fit For Office'

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[progressiveminded]

What a brave man Bolton is. Such courage. Waits till he leaves office to tell us the obvious.

[garrypeak]

Bolton was so concerned that he kept silent, and didn’t speak till he could get a sweet book deal.

[nmnta]

I mean, I guess one unfit war criminal would recognize another... 😒

[MattSaysHello]

Great. Maybe he could have said this six months ago.

[charlesdignam]

Bolton is more interested in making money, than serving his country.

[susanmorgan]

Should have testified. Traitor who chose royalties over Constitution. Not buying the book.

[Gykolove]

Whatever John Bolton is, he is 100% correct here, I have no doubt.

[emiebex]

And that coming from Conservative Yosemite Sam.

[benkeller]

He was happy to work for him for awhile, never really questioned Trump andwas happy to collect his salary.

[brianpark]

Trump & Bolton are both typical draft dodging chickenhawks!

[wyvern]

That he didn't testify, and instead waited and wrote a book about it, is sickening.

[rayherbst]

Events caused me to reflect how we got here in modern times:

George C. Wallace, in 1958, in his first run for Governor of Alabama was endorsed by the NAACP. Wallace lost the nomination by over 34, 400 votes.

After that election, aide Seymore Trammell recalled Wallace saying, "Seymore, you know why I lost that governor's race? ... I was outni****ed by John Patterson. And I'll tell you here and now, I will never be outni****ed again."

In the wake of his defeat, Wallace adopted a hard-line segregationist stance and used this stand to court the white vote in the next gubernatorial election in 1962. When a supporter asked why he started using racist messages, Wallace replied, "You know, I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about ni****s, and they stomped the floor."...

In Wallace's 1998 obituary, The Huntsville Times political editor John Anderson summarized the impact from the 1968 campaign: "His startling appeal to millions of alienated white voters was not lost on Richard Nixon and other Republican strategists. First Nixon, then Ronald Reagan, and finally George H W Bush successfully adopted toned-down versions of Wallace's anti-busing, anti-federal government platform to pry low- and middle-income whites from the Democratic New Deal coalition." Dan Carter, a professor of history at Emory University in Atlanta added: "George Wallace laid the foundation for the dominance of the Republican Party in American society through the manipulation of racial and social issues in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the master teacher, and Richard Nixon and the Republican leadership that followed were his students."

And this is how we ended up with Trump. “1973 - Meet Donald Trump, ” by David W. Dunlap, July 30, 2015, The New York Times, Times Insider

Some first met him, on the front page no less, on Oct 16, 1973. Then 27 years old, Mr. Trump was the president of the Trump Management Corporation, at 600 Avenue Z in Brooklyn, which owned more than 14, 000 apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

“Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City, ” the headline stated. The Department of Justice had brought suit in federal court in Brooklyn against Mr. Trump and his father, Fred C. Trump, charging them with violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968 in the operation of 39 buildings.

“The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color, ’ ” The Times reported. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.”
Donald Trump’s first quoted words in The New York Times expressed his view of the charges:
“They are absolutely ridiculous.”
“We never have discriminated, ” he added, “and we never would.”

Two months later, Trump Management, represented by Roy M. Cohn, turned around and sued the United States government for $100 million (roughly $500 million in today’s terms), asserting that the charges were “ irresponsible and baseless.”

“Mr. Trump accused the Justice Department of singling out his corporation because it was a large one, and because the government was trying to force it to rent to welfare recipients, ” The Times reported.

Under an agreement reached in June 1975, Trump Management was required to furnish the New York Urban League with a list of all apartment vacancies, every week, for two years. It was also to allow the league to present qualified applicants for every fifth vacancy in Trump buildings where fewer than 10 percent of the tenants were black.

Trump Management noted that the agreement did not constitute an admission of guilt.

Mr. Trump himself said he was satisfied that the agreement did not “compel the Trump organization to accept persons on welfare as tenants unless as qualified as any other tenant.”

By then, his interests had grown far beyond his father’s real-estate empire and reached into Manhattan. Judy Klemesrud portrayed him on Nov. 1, 1976:

“He is tall, lean and blond, with dazzling white teeth, and he looks ever so much like Robert Redford. He rides around town in a chauffeured silver Cadillac with his initials, DJT, on the plates. He dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs and, at only 30 years of age, estimates that he is worth ‘more than $200 million.’ ” (That’s gone up a bit.)

Mr. Trump was already proving to be quite adept at courting reporters. “He was one of those who always returned a phone call, ” said Charles Kaiser, the author of “ The Cost of Courage.”
When Mr. Kaiser was a real estate reporter at The Times, in the early years of Edward I. Koch’s mayoralty, New York City was determined to build a convention center, to show the world that it was on the rebound from the mid-1970s fiscal crisis. Mr. Trump held an option on one of the possible sites, over a rail yard at the western end of 34th Street.
“Trump’s site was the only one that was all ready to go, ” Mr. Kaiser recalled. “I was about to go on vacation to Europe to visit my parents when I called him up and said, where will it be? ‘It’s my site, ’ he said. ‘You can bank on it.’
“He was my only source, and it was the only time I took a chance like this with a single source. I wrote it would be built there, it went on Page 1, and I climbed on a plane to Budapest.” (“Koch Said to Have Chosen 34th St. as Site of New Convention Center, ” March 31, 1978.)

Back when trans-Atlantic telephone service was reserved for the most important and urgent communications, it must have been doubly jarring for young Mr. Kaiser to receive a call from his editor, Sheldon Binn, in Budapest the next day.

“Who was your source?” Mr. Binn demanded. “Koch is going crazy.”
“Donald Trump, ” Mr. Kaiser answered.

“That’s what I figured, ” Mr. Binn said.

As Mr. Kaiser told it: “Koch had a press conference, said I was a fine reporter, and my story was 100 percent without foundation. No one had told Ed yet they had chosen the site — or maybe they hadn’t! In any case, I was vindicated a month later.” (“Convention Site at West 34th St. Chosen by Koch, ” April 29, 1978.)

The choice of the site for the convention center, Mr. Trump said, was “perhaps the most significant economic decision made in New York City since the building of the United Nations.” Still so young, he was perhaps too modest to say, “Since Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island.”
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And so I say, Trump got billions in free advertising from MSNBC, Fox, and CNN in 2015 and 2016. Bernie Sanders did what Robert F Kennedy said, “Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” Yet, Sanders never made it. Biden offers no change, and this reminds me of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who once said, “Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?”

[goldengreen]

In all my life, I NEVER thought that I would agree with John Bolton. 2020

[JuanHernandez-pfyg]

Great reporting Emma. Thank you for your work.

[seanrooney]

Bolton is an enabler, not a whistleblower.

[High_rise]

3:09 wait what? Trump constantly accuses joe biden of siding with Xi jingling but then you see this.

[paulsmith.]

It's the room where **it happened.

[angesoup]

Take it with a boulder of salt. Best Emma quote today so far :-)

[DesertFoxMJ-rdtc]

Thanks for cutting on the images of that war criminal.Yeah, John Bolton is a classical gangster. no doubt about that. he has a doctrinal, kind of systematic way of invading and nuking other countries. he goes by the book. maybe more of a Dick Cheney type of a warmonger, maybe Ronald Reagan type. and who cares what type. But that doesn't make Trump any better. not a bit. If you look back at the past 3 years or so, Trump has ZERO FOREIGN POLICY ACHIEVEMENTS. His meeting with north Korea was disastrous. His Warsaw conference shattered US credibility in Europe. Killing the Iranian general was even worse because it forced the Iranian regime to play their last card to avoid a disastrous war and in the meantime they decided to get rid of the last bit of the Iranian civil movement. Trump jumps from crisis to crisis in US domestic policy just to stay in power and he is very good at escalating any crisis and throwing mind blowing diversions. But he is such a dumb uneducated sociopath he has no notion of a "doctrine". he might just do anything anywhere at any time. that makes him equally dangerous as Bolton who doesn't waste a second to follow the steps of the doomsday code of honor.

[NiaPgn]

He ain’t wrong but he didn’t say anything when he was kissing his behind! He’s beyond evil all on his own and not telling us anything new.