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International Desk: Former US national security advisor John Bolton said Sunday he thinks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un \u201cgets a huge laugh\u201d over US counterpart Donald Trump\u2019s perception of their relationship.<\/p>\nInternational Desk: Former US national security advisor John Bolton said Sunday he thinks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un \u201cgets a huge laugh\u201d over US counterpart Donald Trump\u2019s perception of their relationship.<\/p>\n
Bolton spoke to ABC News for his first interview ahead of the Tuesday release of his tell-all book, which contains many damning allegations against Trump.<\/p>\n
When journalist Martha Raddatz asked if Trump \u201creally believes Kim Jong Un loves him,\u201d Bolton replied he could see no other explanation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Kim Jong Un gets a huge laugh out of this,\u201d Bolton said. \u201cThese letters that the president has shown to the press\u2026 are written by some functionary in the North Korean Workers Party agitprop office.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd yet, the president has looked at them as evidence of this deep friendship,\u201d he said, adding that friendship does not amount to international diplomacy.<\/p>\n
Bolton also said he does not consider Trump to be fit for office and hopes he is a one-term president.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope (history) will remember him as a one-term president who didn\u2019t plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral we can\u2019t recall from. We can get over one term,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bolton added that he will vote for neither Trump nor Democrat Joe Biden in the November presidential elections. Instead, he will \u201cfigure out a conservative Republican to write in\u201d on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s administration had sought to halt publication of Bolton\u2019s book, but a US judge refused Saturday to block its release, saying it was too late for a restraining order.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe Room Where it Happened\u201d is Bolton\u2019s portrait of 17 months up close with Trump until he was fired last September. In his interview, Bolton said he had resigned, noting that the \u201clast straw\u201d for him was when Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David during Afghan peace negotiations.<\/p>\n
Bolton\u2019s book, which Trump describes as \u201cfiction,\u201d describes the president \u201cpleading\u201d with Chinese President Xi Jinping during trade negotiations to boost the US president\u2019s chances of re-election.<\/p>\n
Moreover, Bolton backs up the allegations at the center of Trump\u2019s impeachment last year that he pressured Ukraine to dig up dirt to weaken Biden\u2019s presidential bid.<\/p>\n
Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have criticized Bolton for publishing his book, saying he should have instead come forward during the impeachment process.<\/p>\n
The House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Democrat Adam Schiff, told NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d earlier Sunday that Bolton \u201cindicts himself, for cowardice and for greed\u201d by making his accusations in a book instead of testifying in front of the impeachment hearings.<\/p>\n
Republican senator Tim Scott told ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d on Sunday that he also wished Bolton \u201cwould have come into the House under oath and testified.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International Desk: Former US national security advisor John Bolton said Sunday he thinks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un \u201cgets a huge laugh\u201d over US counterpart Donald Trump\u2019s perception of their relationship. Bolton spoke to ABC News for his first interview ahead of the Tuesday release of his tell-all book, which contains many damning allegations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n