Matt Lewis of The Daily Beast writes, “Bill Barr and John Bolton are spilling the tea on just how awful Trump was as president. What took them so long? Here is a taste of column:
Donald Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, and former national security adviser, John Bolton, are back in the news this week, saying things that—to paraphrase Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer—could have been brought to our attention YESTERDAY!
By “yesterday,” I mean any time when it might have mattered more. Like during an impeachment. Like during an election. You know, a time when hearing the truth from someone with inside knowledge and credibility might have made a difference. Instead, both waited until they were hawking books to spill the administration’s tea.
However, since Trump remains a very viable threat to run and win in 2024, their eleventh-hour arrival is not pointless.
Barr is out with a new book, One Damn Thing After Another, where he tells us that Trump’s recipe for a good tweet is “just the right amount of crazy,” and that “Trump cared only about one thing: himself. Country and principle took second place.” I’m skeptical that Trump put the country’s interests that high on his list, but at least Barr got Trump’s top priority right.
Meanwhile, uber-hawk John Bolton recently corrected a Newsmax host’s assertion that Trump was tougher than Joe Biden when it came to Russia, saying “it’s just not accurate to say that Trump’s behavior somehow deterred the Russians.” Bolton also revealed that Trump “barely knew where Ukraine was,” and said that Trump “was not fit to be president.”
Let’s be honest, whatever their motives, both men knew Trump wasn’t fit to be president before they signed up to work for him.
Read the rest here.