What John Bolton Can Tell Us

‘He Is So Full Of Sh*t’: Bolton Claims Mike Pompeo, Others Mocked Trump Behind His Back. https://t.co/VXWifFciko

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) June 18, 2020

Well, that Trump isn't universally respected by people on his staff doesn't seem to be very new to me, and that he would do anything to be re-elected and views US policy only in light of self-benefit isn't really a shocker, either. That Trump is woefully incurious and spends briefings doing most of the talking, even though he needs to know things he simply does not know is also not a shocker. To me. The benefit of this book isn't for persuading people like me of Trump's many manifest and hidden deficits; it's for (possibly) ionforming those who would not hear those things unless they heard them from a die-hard conservative .

(Of course, we can now sit back and watch in real time as people who know him are going to say he was a RINO and they just don't know what to think about him now.)

What John Bolton can tell us is why he wants to criticize Democrats for not broadening the impeachment inquiry against Trump, when testimony from him would have greatly aided in determining the scale of Trump's impeachable perfidies.

But that's water under the bridge, I suppose.

What I am enjoying is watching Trump try to squelch the damaging info from this book badly, in a way that draws closer attention to it. I also didn't need Bolton to tell me Trump isn't an especially strategic thinker, but it is sometimes amusingly confirmed.