Heather Cox Richardson - January 27, 2020 - Letters From An American

[applegrove]

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Tonight Rachel Maddow reported that Bolton’s lawyer delivered a single copy of the manuscript to the White House, but that the White House made copies. Standard procedure—to which Bolton’s lawyer specifically called the attention of the White House lawyers—meant that the only people who should’ve seen the manuscript were those whose job was to make sure it did not reveal classified information. It seems that the White House ignored that rule and distributed the manuscript more widely.

Also tonight, the New York Times ran more information from Bolton’s manuscript, saying that Bolton privately told Attorney General William Barr last year that he was concerned that Trump was granting personal favors to the autocratic leaders of Turkey and China. (Back in October, Rolling Stone’s Ryan Bort did a good story on Trump’s attempts to help Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which likely covers some of the same territory Bolton’s book will.)

At the Washington Post, Michael Gerson notes that Trump might finally have met his match in John Bolton. While the other people on whom Trump has turned beg for forgiveness and return to the fold, Bolton is taking the fight back to Trump.

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[Coventina]

1. I don't have any hopes to get up anymore.

But, this sounds good.

[applegrove]

2. If only Al Franken or Elliot Spitzer had not made such awful mistakes

they could be handing Trump an early loss right now as we speak.

[Sherman A1]

3. Same here

I believe it when it happens, not before.