总统唐纳德·特朗普s前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿他告诉美国广播公司新闻，他认为俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京认为他可以“像小提琴一样”演奏特朗普
“我认为普京认为他可以像拉小提琴一样拉他。我认为普京是——聪明、坚强。他牌打得很差。我认为——我——我认为他看到了——他在这里没有面对一个严重的对手，”博尔顿在独家采访中说。
波顿将于6月23日上映炸药书关于他的17个月在白宫，他把特朗普描绘成“极其无知”，对基本事实一无所知，容易被外国对手操纵。
博尔顿对美国广播公司首席全球事务记者玛莎·拉德达兹(Martha Raddatz)表示:“当你与普京这样的人打交道时，他让自己的一生了解了俄罗斯在世界上的战略地位，而唐纳德·特朗普不喜欢阅读或了解这些问题，这对美国来说是一个非常困难的处境。”。
美国广播公司新闻首席全球事务记者玛莎·拉德达茨首次独家采访了唐纳德·特朗普总统的前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿，内容是关于他的新书《国难》;它发生的房间:白宫回忆录。在美国广播公司美国东部时间2020年6月21日晚上9点播出。
博尔顿的评论，除了他在《发生的房间》一书中分享的许多故事外，相当于他自己的一位前高级顾问对一位在任总统的令人震惊的控诉。
博尔顿去年9月离开白宫，称他已经辞职，而特朗普则称他已经被解雇。博尔顿在他的书和采访中说，特朗普在他离开的情况和许多其他事情上撒了谎。
博尔顿告诉拉德达兹一个所谓的特朗普谎言，“这不是第一次了。”
尽管特朗普自称是最终的交易撮合者，但波顿用他在与普京、朝鲜的金正恩、中国的习近平、土耳其的雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安等的会谈中所说的话来抨击这一形象。
博尔顿告诉美国广播公司新闻，“谈到曼哈顿房地产，总统很可能是一个出色的交易撮合者，”但普京“看到他在这里没有面对一个严重的对手，他在他身上工作，他在他身上工作，他在他身上工作。...我认为他并不担心唐纳德·特朗普。”
博尔顿说，特朗普被普京、金正日和Xi“标记”，并补充说，他们渴望在没有顾问的情况下单独会见特朗普，这样他们就可以奉承和操纵他。
闻首席全球事务记者玛莎·拉德达茨首次接受了美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿的独家采访...更多
美国广播公司新闻首席全球事务记者玛莎·拉德达茨首次独家采访了唐纳德·特朗普总统的前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿，内容是关于他的新书《国难》;它发生的房间:白宫回忆录。在美国广播公司美国东部时间2020年6月21日晚上9点播出。
尤其是，博尔顿表示，外国对手很容易利用特朗普，因为他们知道特朗普是多么痴迷于赢得今年11月的连任。
波顿在书中写道:“我很难确定特朗普在我任期内做出的任何重大决定，这些决定都不是由连任计算驱动的。”该书的预发本已由美国广播公司新闻部获得。
博尔顿本人也不是没有争议。特朗普的法律团队在参议院弹劾审判中称他“不满”，因为他的手稿细节首次泄露。作为一名强硬的保守主义者，他还因在朝鲜和伊朗问题上的鹰派观点而闻名，这些观点经常与总统的观点不一致。
民主党人也批评他拒绝在去年秋天的众议院弹劾听证会上作证。相反，如果被传唤，博尔顿提出在参议院发言，但是共和党控制的机构拒绝听取总统审判中证人的证词。
约翰·博尔顿的《发生的房间:白宫回忆录》
博尔顿现在表示，众议院的调查过于狭隘和政治化，国会本应调查特朗普的其他可能的弹劾罪名，包括特朗普试图以“他喜欢的独裁者的个人喜好”为由干预外国公司的刑事调查，他在书中写道。
他还写道，特朗普将“妨碍司法公正视为一种生活方式”，甚至“恳求Xi确保他会赢得”连任，要求中国购买更多小麦和大豆——以及美国农民对特朗普的支持。
美国贸易代表罗伯特·莱特希尔星期三说，“绝对不真实。从未发生过。我当时在场。我不记得那曾经发生过。我不相信这是真的。我不相信这曾经发生过。”
'I think Putin thinks he can play [Trump] like a fiddle': Former national security adviser John Bolton in exclusive interview
PresidentDonald Trump's formernational securityadviserJohn Boltontold ABC News that he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks he can play Trump "like a fiddle."
"I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle. I think Putin is-- smart, tough. He plays a bad hand extremely well. And I think -- I -- I think he sees that -- he's not faced with a serious adversary here," Bolton said in the exclusive interview.
Bolton is is scheduled to release on June 23an explosivebookabout his 17 monthsin the White House,in which he paints Trump as"stunningly uninformed," ignorant of basic facts and easily manipulated by foreign adversaries.
"When you're dealing with somebody like Putin, who has made his life understanding Russia's strategic position in the world, against Donald Trump, who doesn't enjoy reading about these issues or learning about them, it's a very difficult position for America to be in," Bolton told ABC News chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz.
ABC News chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz has the first exclusive interview with John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, about his new book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” airing June 21, 2020 at 9pm ET on ABC.
Bolton's comments, in addition to the many stories he shares in the book, "The Room Where It Happened," amount to a stunning indictment of a sitting president by one of his own former top advisers.
Bolton departed the White House last September, saying he resigned while Trump has said he was fired. In his book and interview, Bolton said Trump lied about the circumstances of his departure and many other things.
Telling Raddatz about one alleged Trump lie, Bolton added, "And it's not the first time."
While Trump has cast himself as the ultimate deal-maker, Bolton attacks that image with accounts of what he says happened in meetings with Putin, North Korea's Kim Jong Un, China's Xi Jinping, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and more.
"The president may well be a superb deal-maker when it comes to Manhattan real estate," Bolton told ABC News, but Putin "sees that he's not faced with a serious adversary here, and he works on him, and he works on him, and he works on him. ... I don't think he's worried about Donald Trump."
Trump was "marked" by Putin, Kim and Xi, Bolton said, adding that they were eager to meet Trump alone without advisers, so that they could flatter and manipulate him.
ABC News chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz has the first exclusive interview with John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, about his new book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” airing June 21, 2020 at 9pm ET on ABC.
In particular, Bolton says it was easy for foreign adversaries to take advantage of Trump because they knew how obsessed he is with winning reelection this November.
"I am hard pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn't driven by re-election calculations," Bolton wrote in the book, an advanced copy of which was obtained by ABC News.
Bolton himself is not without controversy. Trump's legal team painted him as "disgruntled" during the impeachment trial in the Senate when details of his manuscript first leaked. A hard-line conservative, he's also known for his hawkish views on North Korea and Iran, which were often at odds with the president's.
Democrats have also criticized him for refusing to testify before the House impeachment hearings last fall. Instead, Bolton offered to speak before the Senate if subpoenaed, but the Republican-controlled body declined to hear from witnesses in the president's trial.
"The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," by John Bolton
Bolton now says the House inquiry was too narrow and politicized and that Congress should have investigated Trump for additional possible impeachment offenses, including that Trump attempted to intervene in criminal probes of foreign companies as "personal favors to dictators he liked," he wrote in the book.
He also wrote that Trump treated "obstruction of justice as a way of life" and was even "pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win" reelection by asking China to purchase more wheat and soybeans -- and with them, American farmers' support for Trump.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Wednesday, "Absolutely untrue. Never happened. 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."
