The former national security adviser has laid bare the president’s foreign policy failings. As election day looms, they will only grow worse
Disgraceful though it is, the revelation that Donald Trump allegedly sought covert assistance for his re-election bid from Xi Jinping, his authoritarian alter ego in Beijing, should not surprise students of the Ukraine inquiry, Trump’s impeachment and the Mueller report into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 campaign.
It has long been clear that this ever-unscrupulous US president is prepared to co-opt almost anyone, however objectionable, cut any deal, however shady, and tell any lie, however blatant, to win a second White House term.
Unabashed by John Bolton’s account of how he manipulated and subverted US foreign policy for his own ends, Trump will surely plan more of the same ahead of November’s election, which (with good reason) he is desperately afraid of losing.
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