约翰·博尔顿总统先生唐纳德·特朗普s前国家安全顾问，在他的新书中说特朗普不能把他的个人政治利益和他作为总统的宪法角色分开，包括问中国以帮助他再次当选。
特朗普的第三任国家安全顾问博尔顿写道:“他分不清自己的个人利益和国家利益。”博尔顿曾于2018年4月至2019年9月在白宫任职。
特朗普政府起诉他试图阻止这本书的发行，称他泄露了机密信息。
2019年7月18日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在白宫椭圆形办公室会见荷兰首相马克·吕特时，国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿在一旁倾听。
在涉及中国的新指控中，波顿表示特朗普直接将贸易谈判与他的2020年计划联系在一起选举通过要求习近平主席购买大量的美国农产品来帮助他在11月赢得美国农业州。
2017年11月9日，中国国家主席唐纳德·特朗普和中国的习近平主席在人民大会堂共进国宴。
波顿引用了他在去年6月日本G20峰会上与Xi的一次对话。
”然后，他(特朗普)令人震惊地将话题转向即将到来的美国总统选举，暗示中国的经济能力会影响正在进行的竞选活动，恳求Xi确保他会赢。他强调了农民的重要性，并在选举结果中增加了中国对大豆和小麦的购买。我会把特朗普的原话打印出来，但政府的预发布审查程序已经决定不这么做了，”他写道。
美国贸易代表罗伯特·莱特希尔星期三在国会听证会上说，“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。”
2018年12月1日，在阿根廷首都布宜诺斯艾利斯举行的20国集团领导人峰会结束之际，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(右)与中国习近平主席(左)及其代表团成员共进晚餐。
在另一个事件中，关于允许美国公司与中国电信公司中兴通讯做生意的法律和国家安全问题，波顿提供了他所说的对特朗普如何看待他与Xi的工作关系的调查。
“这一切都是关于特朗普和Xi的。在无数其他事件中，他很难将个人与官方分开，”博尔顿写道。“特朗普几乎不和司法部长塞申斯说话，更不用说考虑他的建议了。相反，特朗普写的是Xi的私人手写笔记，这让白宫法律顾问办公室陷入困境……特朗普不仅给了中兴通讯一个缓刑，还给了它新的生命。我们得到了什么作为交换?问得好。”
博尔顿继续说道:“另一方面，特朗普越来越多地认为中国试图影响2018年的国会选举，反对共和党，更重要的是(对他来说)，中国正在为他在2020年的失败而努力。”。
2017年11月9日，在北京人民大会堂举行的新闻发布会上，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普与中国习近平主席握手。
特朗普的批评者和民主党人抱怨说，博尔顿应该在四个月前的众议院弹劾程序中提出他的主张。尽管博尔顿提出在参议院作证，但共和党人阻止了这一举动。
“总统不得滥用国家政府的合法权力，将自己的个人利益定义为国家利益的同义词，或编造借口，在国家利益的幌子下掩盖对个人利益的追求。他继续说道:“如果众议院不仅仅关注特朗普混淆个人利益(无论是政治还是经济)的乌克兰方面，而是关注更广泛的行为模式——包括他在霍尔班克、中兴和华为等公司的压力活动——那么就有更大的机会说服其他人，让他们相信自己犯下了‘严重罪行和不端行为’。
波顿写道:“事实上，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决定的。”。
2018年6月12日，在新加坡圣淘沙岛五车二酒店举行的历史性美朝峰会上，朝鲜领导人金正恩与美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(左)在会谈间隙散步。
博尔顿在书中说，民主党的弹劾努力过于狭隘地聚焦于乌克兰事件，声称他利用总统的权力针对他的政治对手、前副总统乔·拜登。
“众议院这种党派做法的后果是双重的。博尔顿写道:“首先，这极大地缩小了弹劾调查的范围，也没有提供机会去探究特朗普在刑事和民事、国际和国内等其他问题上的草率参与，这些问题不应该受到总统出于个人原因(政治、经济或任何其他原因)的操纵。”。
但是，为了与特朗普不当利用总统权力推进个人政治利益的主题保持一致，他证实了众议院弹劾听证会上的证词，即特朗普将美国对乌克兰的安全援助与调查其政治对手拜登和前国务卿希拉里·克林顿的承诺联系起来。
“在我的白宫西翼任期内，特朗普想做他想做的事，基于他所知道的和他认为自己最大的个人利益。在乌克兰，他似乎终于能够拥有一切，”他说。特朗普总统“表示，在所有与克林顿和拜登有关的俄罗斯调查材料被移交之前，他不赞成向他们发送任何东西。”
博尔顿写道:“这种模式看起来像是阻碍司法公正的一种生活方式，我们不能接受。”他还补充道，他向司法部长威廉·巴尔报告了自己的担忧——他、国务卿迈克·庞贝和国防部长马克·埃斯珀多次试图让特朗普释放对乌克兰的援助。
2019年2月27日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在河内与朝鲜领导人金正恩共进晚餐。
博尔顿引用特朗普与朝鲜的交易作为另一个例子，他声称特朗普的个人担忧优先于朝鲜。
在2018年6月特朗普与朝鲜领导人金正恩在新加坡举行的峰会上，波顿写道，随着事情越来越近，他对这一事件越来越“悲观”。
“更糟糕的是，我们让朝鲜战俘营指挥官金正恩与特朗普自由会面，从而使他合法化，”他写道。"我对特朗普会见金正恩的热情感到恶心。"
“现在就要发生了。朝鲜从美国那里得到了它想要的，特朗普个人也得到了他想要的。这表明特朗普对外交事务的看法不对称。他分不清自己的个人利益和国家利益的区别。”
美国司法部周二要求一名联邦法官下令波顿完成出版前审查，并“未经书面授权不得披露机密信息”，尽管据说这本书已经在仓库里，是亚马逊的畅销书。
以鹰派外交政策观点著称的保守派共和党人博尔顿，在周日晚9点开始的特别节目中，与美国广播公司新闻部首席全球事务记者玛莎·拉德兹(Martha Raddatz)独家讨论了他的新书《发生在哪里的房间》(The Room Where It engaged)，整周都在播放美国广播公司的《早安美国》(Good Morning America)和《今夜世界新闻》(World News Tonight)。
这本书定于下周二，即6月23日出版。
在结语中，波顿总结道，特朗普在第二个任期可能“远没有第一个任期受政治约束。”
博尔顿写道:“讽刺的是，民主党人会发现他们对‘遗产’更为满意——在他的第二个任期内寻求特朗普，而不是保守派和共和党人。”。“需要考虑的事情。”
Bolton, in new book, alleges Trump asked China to help him get reelected
John Bolton, PresidentDonald Trump's formernational securityadviser, says in his new book that Trump can't separate his personal political interests from his constitutional role as president, including askingChinato help him get reelected, according to a book obtained by ABC News.
"He couldn't tell the difference between his personal interests and the country's interests," writes Bolton, Trump's third national security adviser who served in the White House from April 2018 to September 2019.
The Trump administration has sued him to try to stop the book from being released, arguing he reveals classified information.
National Security Advisor John R. Bolton listens as President Donald J. Trump meets with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte in the Oval Office at the White House, July 18, 2019.
In the new allegation involving China, Bolton says Trump directly linked trade negotiations to his 2020electionprospects by asking President Xi Jinping to buy a large amount of American agricultural products to help him win American farm states in November.
President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping arrive for a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People, Nov.9, 2017 in Beijing, China.
Bolton cited a conversation he said Trump had with Xi at the G20 summit in Japan last June.
"He [Trump] then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China's economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump's exact words, but the government's prepublication review process has decided otherwise," he writes.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said at a congressional hearing 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."
President Donald Trump, right, has dinner with China's President Xi Jinping, left and members of their delegation at the end of the G20 Leaders' Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 01, 2018.
In another episode, regarding legal and national security concerns over allowing U.S. firms to do business with Chinese telecommunications company ZTE, Bolton provides what he says is a look into how Trump viewed his working relationship with Xi.
"Here it was all about Trump and Xi. In countless other episodes, he had trouble divorcing the personal from the official," Bolton writes. "Trump was barely talking to Attorney General Sessions, let alone considering his advice. Instead, Trump was writing Xi personal handwritten notes, which had the White House Counsel's office climbing the walls … Trump had given ZTE not just a reprieve but a new lease on life. And what did we receive in exchange? Good question."
"On the other hand, Trump came increasingly to view China as trying to influence the 2018 congressional elections against Republicans, and more important (to him), was working for his defeat in 2020," Bolton continued.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping during a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017.
Trump's critics and Democrats have complained that Bolton should have come forward with his claims four months ago during House impeachment proceedings. Though Bolton offered to testify in the Senate, Republicans blocked the move.
"A President may not misuse the national government's legitimate powers by defining his own personal interest as synonymous with the national interest, or by inventing pretexts to mask the pursuit of personal interest under the guise of national interest. Had the House not focused solely on the Ukraine aspects of Trump's confusion of his personal interests (whether political or economic), but on the broader pattern of behavior – including his pressure campaigns involving Halkbank, ZTE, and Huawei among others -- there might have been a greater chance to persuade others that 'high crimes and misdemeanors' had been perpetrated," he continued.
"In fact, I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn't driven by re-election calculations," Bolton writes.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un walks with President Donald Trump, left, during a break in talks at their historic US-North Korea summit at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore, June 12, 2018.
In the book, Bolton says Democrats' impeachment efforts focused too narrowly on the Ukraine affair in claiming he used the powers of the presidency to target his political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.
"The consequences of this partisan approach by the House were twofold. First, it narrowed the scope of the impeachment inquiry dramatically and provided no opportunity to explore Trump's ham-handed involvement in other matters -- criminal and civil, international and domestic -- that should not properly be subject to manipulation by a President for personal reasons (political, economic, or any other)," Bolton writes.
But, in keeping with his theme that Trump has improperly use his presidential power to advance his personal political interests, he corroborates testimony in the House impeachment hearings that Trump linked U.S. security aid for Ukraine to a promise to investigate his political rivals, Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
"Throughout my West Wing tenure, Trump wanted to do what he wanted to do, based on what he knew and what he saw as his own best personal interests. And in Ukraine, he seemed finally able to have it all," he says. President Trump "said he wasn't in favor of sending them anything until all the Russia-investigation materials related to Clinton and Biden had been turned over."
"The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn't accept," Bolton writes, adding that he reported his concerns to Attorney General William Barr -- and that he, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper tried repeatedly to get Trump to release the aid to Ukraine.
President Donald Trump has dinner with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Feb. 27, 2019, in Hanoi.
Bolton cites Trump's dealings with North Korea as another example of where he claims Trump's personal concerns took precedence over the country's.
On Trump's June 2018 summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Bolton wrote that he grew "more pessimistic" about the event the closer it drew.
"Worse, we were legitimizing Kim Jong Un, commandant of the North Korean prison camp, by giving him a free meeting with Trump," he writes. "I was sick at heart over Trump's zeal to meet with Kim Jong Un."
"Now it was going to happen. North Korea had what it wanted from the United States and Trump had what he wanted personally. This showed the asymmetry of Trump's view of foreign affairs. He couldn't tell the difference between his personal interests and the country's interests."
The Justice Department asked a federal judge on Tuesday to order Bolton to complete the pre-publication review and "not disclose classified information without written authorization," though the book is already said to be sitting in warehouses and is a best-seller on Amazon.
Bolton, a conservative Republican known for his hawkish foreign policy views, discussed his new book, "The Room Where It Happened," exclusively with ABC News' Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz in a special airing on Sunday starting at 9 p.m. ET with clips airing on ABC's "Good Morning America" and "World News Tonight" throughout the week.
The book is scheduled to be published next Tuesday, June 23.
In the epilogue, Bolton concludes in a second term Trump could be "far less constrained by politics than he was in his first term."
"The irony could well be that Democrats will find themselves far more pleased substantively with a 'legacy'-seeking Trump in his second term than conservatives and Republicans," Bolton writes. "Something to think about."
