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Summary List PlacementFormer national security adviser John Bolton described President Donald Trump's veto against the annual bill to fund the US military as "very destructive" and against the ideals of his own political party. In a CNN interview on Wednesday, Bolton said he agreed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in that Trump's veto against the bipartisan bill was antithetical to the Republican party. "Just...

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton blasted President Donald Trump for his response to the coronavirus outbreak, calling it "a tragedy for Americans." "It's just been one mistake after another," Bolton said in an interview with CNN Wednesday.  Bolton joins a growing group of critics who are speaking out against the White House's approach to the coronavirus pandemic. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more...

In a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider on Monday, former national security adviser John Bolton discussed the 2020 election, President Donald Trump's performance, foreign interference, and the coronavirus pandemic. Bolton said that if people thought about resigning "every time something objectionable happened" in the Trump White House, "you'd last about three or four hours in the job." On Trump's suggestion to delay the November...

Trump's clashes with European leaders are revealed in memoirs by his former nationals security adviser. John Bolton claims Trump accused Macron of leaking their conversations at a NATO summit in 2017. Trump also said the then European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was a "a vicious man who hated the United States desperately," Bolton says in his upcoming book "The Room Where It Happened: A...

Lawyers for John Bolton said Thursday that President Donald Trump's attempts to block publication of his book were futile. In a legal filing they said 200,000 copies had already shipped, and they noted that the media had been full of reports of its contents. The Trump administration is trying to secure a court order to stop the book from being published, with a hearing...

President Donald Trump has lashed out at his former national security adviser John Bolton over the slew of allegations against the Trump administration in Bolton's coming book. Bolton made various claims about the president, including that Trump showed approval for concentration camps in China and urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to support his reelection. In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump accused...

Former National Security Advisor, John Bolton said Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't take Trump seriously, according to a clip of an interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz.  "I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle," Bolton said. Bolton also said that Trump was uninterested in learning and reading about foreign affairs.  The interview is meant to promote Bolton's new tell-all book...

The Department of Justice on Wednesday filed for an emergency restraining order to stop the publication of former National Security Advisor John Bolton's bombshell book, claiming that it still contains classified information. The government wants a hearing to take place on Friday ahead of the release of Bolton's memoir "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," set to be released on June...

John Bolton's new tell-all book, titled "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," contains an antagonizing message to his former boss, President Donald Trump: "Game on." According to a photo of the book's back cover published by Axios in advance of its June 23 release, Bolton writes that Trump was "determined to prevent publication" of the memoir. "His reaction thus ranged from...

Brad Pitt joked that the seconds-long time limit for his Oscars speech was more than the Senate gave John Bolton at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. "They told me I only have 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton," Pitt said on Sunday night. Bolton, the former national security adviser, was not called to testify by...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his caucus on Tuesday that it hasn't secured the votes necessary to block Democrats from calling witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial, The Wall Street Journal reported.  McConnell compiled a list of "yes," "no," and "maybe" votes but didn't show the count to his fellow senators, The Journal said.  But Republican leadership is confident it can win...

Former national security adviser John Bolton claims President Donald Trump told him personally that he would withhold military aid from Ukraine until it acceded to his demands for politically motivated investigations, The New York Times reported, citing an unpublished manuscript of Bolton's upcoming book. According to the manuscript, Trump conveyed his decision to Bolton in August of last year. The president is currently on...

President Donald Trump's defense team repeatedly argued on Saturday that there isn't enough evidence to impeach him because Congress hasn't heard from any witnesses who had "direct contact" with the president. Democratic lawmakers seized on those statements, saying they underscore the need to call more firsthand witnesses in Trump's trial. Moreover, while Trump's lawyers complain of not hearing testimony from direct witnesses, the defense...

Tensions between the US and Iran have reached historic heights in recent months, prompting fears of a new war in the Middle East among lawmakers in Washington.  The US and Iran are locked in a tit-for-tat stalemate as they both seek to gain leverage over the other in a broader dispute linked to the 2015 nuclear deal and President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw...

US District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled on Monday that former White House Counsel Don McGahn must comply with the House subpoena to testify before Congress. McGahn was a key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, particularly into the investigation of whether the president obstructed justice. He was subpoenaed in April by the House Judiciary Committee. William Burck, McGahn's attorney, said his client...

House investigators leading the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump will hear from Fiona Hill and David Holmes on Thursday. Hill, the former top Russia adviser on the National Security Council, in closed-door testimony already offered a scathing picture of shadowy efforts to urge Ukraine to investigate Trump's political rivals. Holmes is a top staffer at the US Embassy in Ukraine and worked closely...