Five Major Witnesses Rebut Bolton Book

At least five major witnesses reject substantive claims in John Bolton’s forthcoming, 592-page memoir titled “The Room Where It Happened.” . . .

1. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: Pushing back hard against Bolton’s credibility and access, Pompeo told Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday that Bolton was shut out of key meetings because colleagues were worried that Bolton would leak or lie about the meetings.

“I haven’t read the book in its entirety, but the excerpts I’ve seen, there’s lots of falsehoods, there’s lots of lies contained there,” Pompeo told Hannity, saying he disagreed with the book’s title, “The Room Where It Happened.”

2. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer: At a Senate Finance Committee hearing Wednesday, Lighthizer firmly rebutted Bolton’s claim that President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping for help winning the 2020 election. “Absolutely untrue, never happened,” Lighthizer said. “I was there, I have no recollection of that ever happening. I don’t believe it’s true, I don’t believe it ever happened.”

3. Bolton’s former chief of staff Fred Fleitz: The fact that Trump “decided last June not to bomb Iran,” Fleitz told Fox News, “disproves” what he called the premise of Bolton’s book — that the “president doesn’t have principles [and] he’s not qualified to lead.”

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