{"id":148737,"date":"2020-06-18T15:50:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/18\/john-bolton-says-trump-is-not-fit-for-office-as-fallout-continues-over-book-live\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:50:55","slug":"john-bolton-says-trump-is-not-fit-for-office-as-fallout-continues-over-book-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=148737","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton says Trump is &#039;not fit for office&#039; as fallout continues over book \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: Bolton\u2019s book is \u2018pure fiction\u2019Trump was willing to halt investigations as \u2018favor\u2019 to dictators, book saysBolton\u2019s bad reviews don\u2019t stop him topping US book chartsTrump administration seeks emergency order to block memoirSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.48pm BST House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff has signaled he is condering calling former national security adviser John Bolton to testify about the explosive allegations in his new book.In a lengthy statement, Schiff criticized Bolton for not disclosing the information he had during the House impeachment inquiry. Bolton refused to testify before the House, and the Senate chose to not call any additional witnesesses during Trump\u2019s impeachment trial.Notwithstanding Bolton\u2019s unconscionable delay, his allegations are serious.They again demonstrate that Trump&#8217;s impeachable conduct with Ukraine was part of a clear pattern:Seeking personal political benefit from foreign powers.History will judge Republicans. Harshly. 2.29pm BST Trump\u2019s claim that John Bolton\u2019s new book is \u201ca compilation of lies and made up stories\u201d appears to be at odds with his administration\u2019s assertion that it includes classified information.The administration has sued to block the book\u2019s publication, claiming it represents a threat to national security. White House officials have also accused Bolton of backing out of a necessary review process for the book. Related: Trump administration sues to block publication of John Bolton&#8217;s book Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/jun\/18\/john-bolton-donald-trump-black-lives-matter-juneteenth-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\">John Bolton says Trump is &#039;not fit for office&#039; as fallout continues over book \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: Bolton\u2019s book is \u2018pure fiction\u2019Trump was willing to halt investigations as \u2018favor\u2019 to dictators, book saysBolton\u2019s bad reviews don\u2019t stop him topping US book chartsTrump administration seeks emergency order to block memoirSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.48pm BST House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff has signaled he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}