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John Bolton Knows What He’s Doing

The former national security adviser’s secrets are valuable, and will come at a cost.
Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, announced the title of his forthcoming memoir last night: , a reference to the Oval Office, the scene of some of the misdeeds he is likely to attribute to the president. (I had hoped for something jauntier, perhaps ’.) Accompanying that announcement was a in teasing readers with revelations. The most significant is that Trump allegedly conditioned his release of Ukrainian military aid not only on that country’s announcement of an investigation into Hunter and Joe Biden, but also on its release of evidence of the Biden family’s involvement in Robert Mueller’s probe. In fact, there is no such evidence,

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