John Bolton: BILL BARR AND MIKE POMPEO AND JOHN KELLY IF YOU'RE LISTENING!

Speaking of buses and the one that this book apparently is warming up for Bill Barr, Bolton was so freaked out by Trump's behavior that he and Barr met in 2019 to talk about it and Barr was also very worried about it. Yeah sure, you bet.

Also, Bolton, John Kelly, and also Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "all considered resigning in disgust or frustration" at times.

"What if we have a real crisis like 9/11 with the way he makes decisions?" Kelly said at one point as he considered resigning.

"He second-guessed people's motives, saw conspiracies behind rocks, and remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House, let alone the huge federal government"

One time Pompeo and Bolton were on the same call with Trump and the South Korean president, and Pompeo said he was "having a cardiac arrest in Saudi Arabia" listening to it. Bolton agreed it was very awful and bad, and called the phone call a "near-death experience."

And here is one that really throws Pompeo under the bus, though:

During Mr. Trump's 2018 meeting with North Korea's leader, according to the book, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped Mr. Bolton a note disparaging the president, saying, "He is so full of shit."

[link to boingboing.net (secure)]

Wonder if "he is so full of shit" is the classified information the White House was trying so hard to keep secret. Oh well, we know now!