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Turkey blasts Bolton's 'misleading, one-sided' book on Trump
In the book 'The Room Where It Happened', which is filled with damning allegations against Trump, Bolton contends that the US leader was inclined to offer...
In an outburst on Twitter, Trump called this and other recent rulings he didn't like "shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans."
Media outlets reported in October that Bolton, a leading foreign policy hawk, was planning to write a book about his time in the Trump administration.
The National Security Council said after a preliminary review of the manuscript - a vetting process applied to any White House employees writing books - that it contained 'significant amounts of classified information'.
Bolton's book reportedly says that the president wanted to freeze military aid to Ukraine until Kiev opened an investigation into Trump's political rival Joe Biden.
The defence also injected Joe Biden and his family directly into the argument for why the president should not be ousted.
Citing Bolton's unpublished manuscript, 'The Times' wrote that Trump told Bolton he wanted to keep frozen $391 million in aid to Ukraine until Kiev officials helped with a probe into his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Democrats believe Bolton has direct knowledge supporting charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress by the president.
Early on Friday, the former diplomat announced his return to Twitter with an enigmatic message: 'Glad to be back on Twitter after more than two months.'
John Bolton, who had been scheduled to give a press conference at the White House on an unrelated matter, denied being fired and insisted that he had resigned.
Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for a second six-year term under a cloud of skyrocketing inflation, shortages of basic food and medicine and an exodus of Venezuelans to neighbouring countries.
For decades, Washington has paid little real attention to this nation so critical to Africa’s future and its new policy on the continent is focusing largely on the bitter competition with China and Russia for hegemony and how to take them on and win.
The latest tranche of measures have been touted as the toughest yet, and aim to significantly reduce Iran's vital oil exports and cut off its banks from international finance.
Tehran had argued that the US sanctions imposed since May by the Trump administration violated the terms their 1955 Treaty of Amity.
Washington has reportedly devised a programme to dismantle North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs in a year.
White House national security adviser John Bolton told Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov it was in the interest of both countries to have better relations.