Further details from the Bolton book revealed by the Times and Washington Post include Bolton’s claims that:
Trump’s ignorance of foreign affairs included not knowing that Britain has nuclear weapons, and once asking if Finland
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped Bolton a note during Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un that said of the president, “He’s so full of s–t,” and later said the unprecedented negotiations had “zero probability of success.”
Trump told Bolton that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used obscene, sexist language to refer to then-UN Ambassador Nikki
Trump’s intelligence briefings were a waste of time because “much of the time was spent listening to Trump, rather than Trump listening to the briefers.”
Trump came closer to pulling the US out of NATO than the
Trump explicitly linked the Ukrainian aid to investigations of former Vice President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, and Bolton, Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper tried eight to 10 times to get Trump to release the aid. @jimcramer @tomkeene @cnbcfastmoney