2/2: #TRUMPADMINISTRATION: New Forward for "The Room Where It Happened," by John Bolton John Bolton.
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
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2/2: #TRUMPADMINISTRATION: New Forward for "The Room Where It Happened," by John Bolton
John Bolton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_Where_It_Happened
1903 DC
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| 0:28.0 | Range based on fast conditions and may vary. I'm John Bachelor. John Bolton is here, former Ambassador to the United Nations, |
| 0:39.6 | former National Security Advisor, and author of the book The Room Where It Happened, a New Forward. |
| 0:45.0 | And in the Forward, John has a fun game. |
| 0:47.6 | We all have George Orwell in us. |
| 0:49.8 | So John enters into the twilight zone of what if a second Trump term. |
| 0:56.0 | And that would mean that in some fashion Mr. Trump represented the Republican Party, which, |
| 1:01.6 | for at least since the advent of the Cold War has been the do you have a definition after working for the president? |
| 1:13.0 | Well, I don't think there is a definition |
| 1:16.0 | because Trump doesn't really have a philosophy, |
| 1:20.0 | nor does he pursue policy in the common sense of that word that most of us understand. |
| 1:25.2 | What he does is make ad hoc anecdotal decisions, |
| 1:35.0 | I call them in the book an archipelago of dots. |
| 1:37.0 | They're just not connected by a theme or direction. You can try and find themes and |
| 1:45.5 | directions but Donald Trump wouldn't recognize them and I think that's that's |
| 1:50.2 | a piece of evidence of compelling piece of evidence why he's not fit to be |
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