Last night on Rachel Maddow a NYT reporter stated that when the Bolton book came to the WH for a review (only 1 copy) that MANY copies of the book were made and shared among various agencies. She also said that someone from the NSC leaked the Ukraine specific pages. Also, Bolton said that “it takes 2 hours everyday to do IQ45’s make up and hair to make him look human.”
Copyright Infringement?
Ok this may be my crazy sense of humor but I also thought of the movie: Weekend at Bernie's
LOL ?
In short, I feel that Bolton is the one behind the leak.
You may well be right, Allyn. I distrust Bolton implicitly; the man was born with an agenda.
I do want to say one thing on the point of manuscript leaks, however. It isn't simply that Bolton has chosen to forgo early release of the manuscript (publishing schedules are tighter than a drum and nearly impossible to alter this far in), or that he's holding back his testimony "just to make money off the book," which I keep hearing in the media. Yes, he wants to make money off the book, but also: he must.
When Bolton proposed the book, which would have been many months ago, he entered a legal contract with Simon & Schuster. As a business, they must make back every penny of that princely advance we all keep hearing about, on top of everything else they've invested in the book in terms of management, ghostwriting, editing, graphics, marketing support, printing, and so on.
If Bolton leaked his own manuscript to the press, he'd be in direct violation of that contract and its terms would be forfeit. He'd owe back the full advance and likely then some. He would have needed approvals to send it to the White House (likely S&S sent it), and a CNA would have been issued beforehand.
I can't imagine a scenario in which Simon & Schuster agreed to allow Bolton, or anyone else, to release the manuscript. Leaks are a much bigger liability to sales than any potential boost the buzz might create. Leaks can't be controlled, and publishing as an industry is already in rough shape due in no small part to rampant digital file sharing.
Ok this may be my crazy sense of humor but I also thought of the movie: Weekend at Bernie's
LOL ?
@triciact, so funny! I read Jeanne's Dorian Gray comparison and thought about Bernie, the black comedy/true crime indie movie they made about that weird mortician in Carthage, Texas.
“He’s now been cosmetized. He’s ready to be dressed and casketed.” ;)
I actually have the feeling Bolton was involved behind the scenes in the leak. He still has friends in the WH and he could've easily tasked one of them with leaking the book. He has to vehemently deny being part and feign upset because like you said, he loses a lot of money he has already been paid on top of new suits filed if he doesn't.
Absolutely nothing would surprise me short of Bolton walking out in a pink tutu and performing a perfect pirouette.
If he was involved, I hope S&S nails him to the wall—at the very least. Decades of warmongering is a lead suit and karma is a rising tide, brother.
Before the Senate 'Removal' Trial began, I kept feeling that it would not go the way the GOP was hoping. This has proven true. And it will continue. More bombshells will continue to drop throughout the trial. The dam has permanently burst. T is now in a irreversible self-destructive karmic pattern that he will not recover from (whether he is removed or not).
@lawrence Agreed.
What concerns me is the fact that, whenever things go especially sideways for T, with leaks and more leaks and other bad news hitting the airwaves, he likes to spike a distraction bomb on the field—to stop the clock on the negative press and give himself a momentary "boost." Syria strikes, trade wars, Iran, ad nauseam. I always want to stay mindful of this without simultaneously feeding it.
In other news:
It's true, y'all. Jared is a Replicant. I won't joke that he should be "retired" or switched off, but someone needs to take him back to the factory for an overhaul.
I see a huge irony in the situation involving John Bolton who is greatly detested by many because of his foreign policy preferences and perceived extreme eagerness to get us into wars. The irony is that he is now positioned to play a huge role in saving our democracy from extinction!
Republican leaders in the senate beginning with Mitch McConnell were counting on a quick whitewash job with few or no witnesses or documents being presented in the senate trial. The news about what John Bolton has to say regarding Donald Trump has forced Mitch McConnell and other GOP leaders to change their strategy.
John Bolton has opened up a huge fissure in the GOP between those who care only about maintaining their power even it's done dishonestly and those who are genuinely interested in learning all the facts and getting the truth.