Don't buy John Bolton's book. Listen to this podcast instead.

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Zack, Jenn, and Alex go through the published excerpts from and quotes of John Bolton’s new book — a tell-all about his time as Trump’s national security adviser. They talk about the most shocking moment in the text, Trump’s alleged support for China putting Uighur Muslims in concentration camps, and run through some of the other revealing moments in the book and what they tell us about the way US foreign policy works today. Then they zoom out to this context: How much should we trust John Bolton’s version of events, and how angry should we be about his book coming out now rather than during Trump’s impeachment? References: Here are the three main write-ups of Bolton’s book in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Washington Post. This is Bolton’s other book Alex mentioned. Vox’s Jen Kirby has a helpful explainer on the Uighur issue. Kirby also has a great piece on the seven most disturbing allegations in Bolton’s new book. Hosts: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp), senior correspondent, Vox Jennifer Williams (@jenn_ruth), senior foreign editor, Vox Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox), national security reporter, Vox Consider contributing to Vox: If you value Worldly’s work, please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts More to explore: Subscribe for free to Today, Explained, Vox’s daily news podcast to help you understand the news, hosted by Sean Rameswaram. About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Newsletter: Vox Sentences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.6	Available now wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts. Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton's book has started to leak out to the public with reports and excerpts in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
1:31.0	It is now topic number one in American public conversation
1:34.4	because it revealed the inner workings of American foreign policy under the
1:38.8	Trump administration, including some truly shocking revelations even by Trump administration standards
1:45.6	about things the president has done and said and the way in which foreign policy making works
1:50.4	in this White House. On this episode of worldly, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network,
1:54.4	we're going to dive into what Bolton's book actually says. We're going to talk about
1:58.7	what we know about the contents, and we're going to talk about the extent to which we can
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