John Bolton teases new reveals about Donald Trump’s Ukraine call contained in new book, The Room Where it Happened
- Former US national security adviser John Bolton said readers will love a chapter in his new book about Trump’s July 25 call with Ukraine’s president
- He added his book is ‘an effort to write history’ in his first public talk since the start of the impeachment inquiry into Trump
“You’ll love chapter 14,” former US national security adviser John Bolton said about the manuscript for his upcoming book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, during his first public talk since the start of the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump.
Bolton had been asked, The Atlantic reported, if the now-infamous July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “perfect”, as Trump describes it. During the call, which prompted a whistle-blower complaint, Trump asked Zelensky to do him “a favour”, and discussed former vice-president Joe Biden and a debunked conspiracy theory into the 2016 election.
“For all the focus on Ukraine and [the] impeachment trial: to me, there are portions of the manuscript that deal with Ukraine,” Bolton said during the talk, CNN reported. “I view that like the sprinkles on the ice cream sundae, meaning, in terms of what’s in the book.”
Bolton, who left the White House in September last year, gave a lecture on Monday at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Ukraine was one of the topics discussed.
“I say things in the manuscript about what he said to me,” Bolton said during the talk, Bloomberg News reported. “I hope they become public someday. [Trump] tweets but I can’t talk about it. How fair is that?”