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Bolton's book is out despite trump's desperate attempt to stop it by court action.

He will insist that all the allegations are lies, so can't see how he will do anything legally.

Some extracts:

Trump asked China's Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral prospects

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In 2018, Trump came under fire for writing an unfettered defense of Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of Jamaal Khashoggi.

According to Bolton, the main goal of the defense was to take away attention from a story about Ivanka using her personal email for government business.

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He recalls Trump asking Kelly if the nation of Finland is part of Russia. In a meeting with then-British Prime Minister Theresa May in 2018, a British official referred to the UK as a “nuclear power,” and Trump interjects: “Oh, are you a nuclear power?” Bolton adds that he could tell the question about Britain, which has long maintained a nuclear arsenal, “was not intended as a joke.

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In May 2018, Bolton says, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan handed Trump a memo claiming innocence for a Turkish firm under investigation by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York for violating Iranian sanctions.

“Trump then told Erdogan he would take care of things, explaining that the Southern District prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people.

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Bolton says Trump cared little for the details of the denuclearization effort during the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore and saw it merely as a "an exercise in publicity."

"[Trump] was prepared to sign a substance-free communique, have his press conference to declare victory.

No doubt more to come out including confirmation of the UKR quid pro quo.