The Trump administration earlier tried to block the release of the upcoming memoir of former National Security Advisor John Bolton citing concerns over the potential leakage of classified information. However, US District Judge Royce Lamberth denied the requests.
New extracts from John Bolton's upcoming book, published in the Telegraph, detailing the president's interactions with NATO members and European leaders have again raised eyebrows among both Trump's supporters and his critics.
In “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir”, former National Security Advisor John Bolton writes that Donald Trump accused French president Emmanuel Macron during the NATO 2018 Summit of constantly leaking their conversations. The book claims that the allegation was denied by the French politician, albeit with a “broad” smile. The American commander-in-chief also lashed out at the then-president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker by calling him a “vicious man who hated the United States desperately”.
According to Bolton, Trump believed that it was Juncker who was setting the NATO budget, as the US president repeatedly criticised the alliance's member states for not meeting the defence spending target of two percent of GDP. Says Bolton, Donald Trump did not follow any well-thought-out “grand strategy” or “consistent trajectory” in his statements or actions.
The…
