Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/27/2020 9:29:15 AM

Bolton marketing plan matches Comey’s.  Write some krap, get free advertising help from the swamp (leftist media & commies) and retire in style.  Oh, so predictable!!!!

Name:	dobrew -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/27/2020 10:25:19 AM

You should read "profiles of corruption", a new book just released. You will be amazed!!

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	May not even be what Bolton wrote
Date:	1/27/2020 11:00:41 AM (updated 1/27/2020 11:18:31 AM)

Remember, this is an unfinished manuscript which was leaked to the NYT at a most interesting and strategic moment to try to force wishy-washy GOP Senators to vote for witnesses so the jury can finish with the incompetent prosecution by Fadler and Pencil Neck.  It's almost as if the NYT is colluding with the Democrats in the House to influence the election by releasing damaging information about a candidate that is based on anonymous sources that later turns out to be untrue or distorted...but damage done and mission accomplished and the retraction will be on the bottom of page A-17 in small letters.

Time will tell if this is an accurate account but Bolton's lawyers don't seem to deny that is what he wrote.  Interestingly, if the editors at the NYT have the manuscript there is no exec privilege claim.  One would think that the NSC would have to approve of the manuscript before its released to editors without security clearance.  Either way, this book will likely sell if it feeds TDS.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/27/2020 12:22:47 PM

I knew of John Bolton when I worked in DC.  Mr. Tactful he isn't.  You may recall he was essentially fired from his job as UN Ambassador.  He tends to have a lot of opinions, which he expects to be taken as fact.  Keep in mind that his book is just his view of the way things were/are.  He left the Trump administration when Trump asked for his resignation - and that, I can tell you, would be a big blow to his ego.  

That's the thing with books - they are written from the authors perspective and how they saw things.  Doesn't mean it is true, doesn't mean it is fact, it's just one perspective.  I suspect if you are trying to sell books, your editor advises you to build up certain situation or conversations to appear more dramatic than they really were.  

Its like this videos that are being released.  The one where Trump says to Fire the Ambassador.  He had just been told that she was badmouthing him in the UKRAINE and saying that he woud be impeached.  Anyone as impulsive as responder as Trump is would say "fire her".  But it is rarely mentioned that she didn't get fired then - she wasn't fired for another year.  And we are not reminded that she was Obama's pick and not Trump's.  

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/27/2020 3:20:54 PM (updated 1/27/2020 3:53:18 PM)

For me this is a big nothingburger as the content of what was released simply points out what Trump believed (Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election and there was corruption with the prior administration), that he wanted to do something that he didn't do, to stop something he didn't stop, to get something he didn't get.  This "bombshell" simply confirms Trump's perspective which formed the predicate, along with the kleptocracy in Ukraine, for what he wanted.  But he did nothing and got nothing.

But more to the point, consider this.  The Democrats have impeached a President and want him removed from office for being concerned about foreign election interference and foreign/domestic corruption.  Not only was he right to want what he wanted, it was his Constitutional duty.  That he didn't get what he wanted and Ukraine has gotten everything they wanted and them some from the Trump administration is the real shame here.  But it certainly isn't impeachable, and if it is, then every President before should have been impeached and every future one will be impeached. It will become SOP for the opposition party upon gaining control of the House to impeach over policy differences and divining what the motivation of every act was.

But that won't stop the RINOs and Never Trumpers for completely misconstruing this to support their preconceived desires anyway and allow witnesses.....except of course the weaseleaker, Pencil Neck or the Bidens.  Their corruption apparently doesn't matter.  Simply amazing to behold.

Name:	PTClakefan -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/27/2020 5:49:56 PM

So, John Bolton and his publishing company(s) have denied that any of them leaked any information from the draft manuscript to the New York Times regarding Ukraine discussions Bolton claims he had with the POTUS.  Meanwhile, the advance sales of the book are climbing up the Amazon best-seller list even though public release isn't scheduled until March.  In addition, a few republican senators are already citing this as justification for breaking ranks and voting with democrats to require additional documents and witness testimony, which will surely drag this out for several months.  It doesn't take a genius to figure out that sales of Bolton's book will be significantly greater if the impeachment trial is pending during the initial public release, than they would be if the POTUS has already been acquited prior to that release.  HUMMM????  Ok.  I believe them.  

Name:	lucky67 -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/27/2020 6:11:10 PM (updated 1/27/2020 6:12:27 PM)

wouldnt surprise me on bit if HILDA & Queen Nan werent in a backroom cooking up a poisonious vat of venom; she's out bashing Bern ( like in (2016) & maybe in the loop with NYTimes  on Bolton leak--what better way to 'GET" Trump as she knows she can trounce Lazy Joe & Poca

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/27/2020 9:54:01 PM

Any government employee (former or current) is required to submit a  book that they have writen to the government for review to ensure that no classified information is contained within it.  It wouldn't be too hard for it to be leaked, once a Congress person found out where it was being reviewed.  I don't know if you remember several years ago when that SEAL who claimed to have been the one to kill Osama, wrote and published a book without the government review.  

I would imagine that an additional challenge with the Bolton book, for the WH to claim executive privilege and redact whole parts of the book.  But the thing is this - the book is how Bolton remembers it and how he perceives intent.  

I was talking to a friend today who also remembers John Bolton - he has an ego the size of Texas, he is an ultra hawk, and he acts like his opinions are fact.  I don't know how he wormed his way into National Security Advisor or why Trump thought he would be a good one.

As far as I'm concerned, his book is no more important than the book "anomymous" wrote a few months ago.  I'm sure Bolton's publishing house is loving all the free publicity his book is getting.  

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/28/2020 8:19:20 AM

On a side note, read somewhere that Col Vindmans brother is in the NSC office where book reviews go for approval.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/28/2020 9:12:19 AM

Wouldn't surprise me.  I read an article the other day about how the miitary has forbid any reprisals against Vindeman and they were providing extra security for him.  At first I thought he was okay, but then seeing his testimony, realized that he is the self righteous type, who believes his actions are beyond reproach and will refuse to listen to his managers.  I've run up against that kind of person before, in fact, I had a colleague who was very much the same (of course the stakes were lower).

Name:	lucky67 -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/28/2020 10:33:06 AM (updated 1/28/2020 10:47:20 AM)

I am on chapter 2 of writing my book on my  personal  knowledge of how The Clinton admin/SEC/regulators/  Barney Frank/Chris Dodd/ Angelo Mozillo, , et. al. were the causes of the mortgage meltdown; trying to contact Comey & Bolton's publishers to get an advance--

Name:	Carlson -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/28/2020 11:57:23 AM

Don't you just love Barney Frank when he is interviewed CNBC!  He accepts no responsibility for the mortgages to people who weren't even working! What could go wrong?  Lol.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Ain’t the swamp amazin’ ?
Date:	1/28/2020 1:06:41 PM

The amazing thing about the whole sub-prime mortgage fiasco is how many times over the years the GOP tried to fix the problem only to be called mean-spirited racists.  Nothing was further from the truth.  Forcing banks to provide mortgages to people who were unqualified and less than a paycheck away from foreclosure is neither kind nor compassionate to those that fell for it.