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Title: John Bolton's "The Room Where It Happened" - What I learned...
Post by: dutch508 on July 13, 2020, 08:56:17 AM
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Star Member MineralMan (132,109 posts)
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John Bolton's "The Room Where It Happened" - What I learned...

After reading the entire book, encompassing 460-something pages, I learned two important things:

1. John Bolton thinks extraordinarily highly of himself.

2. Donald J. Trump didn't take Bolton's advice often enough, so Bolton resigned.

Everything else in the book, pretty much, I already knew from watching the news for three years.

That, my DU friends, is why we did not hear more about the book's revelations in the press after it came out. There really weren't any important revelations disclosed in it. Reading it was a waste of quite a few hours spent turning the book's pages.

 :yawn:

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Merlot (8,160 posts)

2. Well, at 460+ pages, at least your wrist got a good work out.

Hopefully that book will end up in the 99 cent store bin.

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Cirque du So-What (15,119 posts)

4. And therein lies the reason why I seldom get excited over tell-all publications. I can recall from past readings a scant handful of true revelations. Filter that rehashing through a malignant ego and I have to take a hard pass. Thanks for confirming my suspicion; hope it wasn’t too much drudgery for you.

You were sure this would finally bring down Trump...

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Star Member MineralMan (132,109 posts)

8. I read stuff. I always have read non-fiction more than anything else.

Bolton's book was a slog, simply because it didn't really reveal anything of significance. That's why there was no reporting on the book after the first days following its release. Nothing to report.

As soon as Mary Trump's book is on my Kindle, I'll be reading that, as well. I might as well, I guess. I have low expectations for that one, as well.

 :rotf:

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sop (3,357 posts)

5. I nearly got through the first chapter before also concluding Bolton thinks very highly of himself,

and he was upset Trump didn't take his advice more often. Luckily, for me, I didn't buy the book, I just skimmed over the bootleg copy on the internet. Good thing for Bolton he got a $2M advance.

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NCDem47 (342 posts)

14. I mean, can't we all write a book about Trump at this point?

He's a lying, sadistic S.O.B. who puts himself above all others. Always has been. Always will be. Doesn't that pretty much sum it up? How many more proof points do we need?

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Title: Re: John Bolton's "The Room Where It Happened" - What I learned...
Post by: SVPete on July 13, 2020, 10:19:08 AM
3. Bolton got my $$.

Whomp-whomp!!! :lmao:  :rotf:  :tongue:
Title: Re: John Bolton's "The Room Where It Happened" - What I learned...
Post by: Carl on July 13, 2020, 11:16:41 AM
Since Trump did not take the advice of a man they have all despised for years shouldn't that make them happy?
Title: Re: John Bolton's "The Room Where It Happened" - What I learned...
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on July 13, 2020, 01:20:15 PM
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Merlot (8,160 posts)

2. Well, at 460+ pages, at least your wrist got a good work out.

:o


MM was  :jerkit: while reading every page looking for the gotcha to help him "finish".
Title: Re: John Bolton's "The Room Where It Happened" - What I learned...
Post by: zeitgeist on July 13, 2020, 02:23:33 PM
:o


MM was  :jerkit: while reading every page looking for the gotcha to help him "finish".
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