Go ahead and build them
Bolton’s book is lighting up the Twitternet.
This one got my attention:
He what?
David Choi at Business Insider:
President Donald Trump approved of a concentration camp for Uighur Muslims in China during a private meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to former national security adviser John Bolton’s upcoming memoir, “In The Room Where It Happened.”
In a private meeting during the 2019 G-20 meeting in Japan, Trump and Xi were only accompanied by their interpreters, according to Bolton’s book, parts of which were published in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
Xi “explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang,” Bolton claimed, based on the interpreter’s account. The interpreter reportedly added that “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”
Of course he did. He likes to single out Muslims for persecution and insult and banishment himself, and he likes to cozy up to people who like to do things like that. He would have loved Hitler, and I say that in all seriousness. An empty head and a complete lack of moral compass is all it takes to love Hitler.
The Chinese Communist Party has long been criticized for its construction of large concentration camps in Xinjiang, where millions of ethnic minority Uighur Muslims are believed to be detained under the guise of a counter-terrorism campaign. Inside the roughly 465 camps in Xinjiang and surrounding region, roughly 2-3 million Uighur Muslims are under surveillance and are subject to mandatory “reeducation” training. Some survivors have reported being beaten, subjected to medical experiments, and even being forced to watch gang rapes.
Exactly the right thing to do though.
Time I think for another constitutional amendment. Something like: a committee shall subject the President’s head to periodic shaking. If the head is found to rattle, a new President shall be found and appointed by random selection, from a randomly selected page of a randomly selected phone book.
Could only improve the situation.
Fuck John Bolton.
You saw your boss commit crimes and you said nothing. You saw your boss do things that are against the interests and national security of the US. But what could you do? You were only the national security advisor!
Maybe it would have made no difference. The R’s seem to be happy to follow Trump down the levels of Hell. But these revelations that are pouring out of his book would have been a tremendous addition to the Democrats case during the impeachment inquiries and trial.
Put the interests of the country ahead of his personal gain? And blow his book deal? Putting himself ahead of his country sounds like what Trump would have done. They were made for each other. They would make great cell mates.
Claire,
Yeah, I’m glad he’s finally publishing his book, but I’m also glad other people are reading it so I don’t have to.
Bolton, possibly the first US public official sacked by tweet, plumbs the depths of Trump’s depravity; while maintaining that his own was more shallow..
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/john-boltons-damning-indictment-of-trump/613168/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20200617&silverid-ref=NjQwMjExNDY4NDU4S0
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944/3327175863967518/?type=3&theater
“…and even”?
“…and even“‽
Someone wrote that sentence, and was simply blind to the possibility that there might be something worse in that scenario than being forced to watch?
I despair.