Bolton will vote for Biden. Wait. No, he won’t.

The Telegraph reported earlier Sunday that Bolton, in an exclusive interview with the British newspaper as part of a media tour for the release of his new book, “The Room Where It Happened,” had said he plans to support Biden. When I followed wrestling, I used to hate it when the heels would betray one another. I need Bobby Heenan to return from the dead to tell me whether to root for Trump or Bolton in this feud.

BUT …

Bolton issued a statement Sunday evening denying that he’s planning to vote for Joe Biden in November.

These bad guys are so tricky when they do their interviews with Mean Gene. You just can’t believe their claims.

Wait. I got it now. Maybe the Telegraph was reporting that MICHAEL Bolton would vote for Biden.

14 thoughts on “Bolton will vote for Biden. Wait. No, he won’t.

  1. “I, Claudius” is relevant to this space because it had the first, or some of the first, nude scenes on US television. I remember Messalina was hot and Derek Jacobi put on one of the great all-time acting performances.

    I was so impressed I went and read the Robert Graves books, and they might have been even more entertaining than the series.

    1. They are two of my favorite books. Like you, I was motivated to read them from the Masterpiece Theater presentation.

      Two more of my favorites, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, were also books I would not have read without the original mini-series.

      I would say the same is true of the Song of Ice and Fire series, for different reasons of course, but I’m still ticked off that the series is unfinished after so many years, and GRR Martin is an elderly fat man whose health is basically a walking time bomb. I hope he has written a good outline for whoever ends up finishing the series.

  2. The Senator who loudly proclaimed that the gods should take him rather than Caligula when it looked like the lovable young emporer was moribundus. “We shouldn’t both be here at the same time, should we?”

  3. How old is Bolton? Is he a resident of one of those states where the Republicans have declared old people should sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the economy? Maybe he won’t be around on Election Day, if he has the courage of his convictions.

    1. Hold on now …

      He’s only about two months older than I am.

      Although he does look kinda ancient.

      SIDEBAR: when I looked up his age I realized that he’s only 5’7″, not much taller than Jeff Sessions. As Johnny Carson used to say, “I did not know that.” I pictured Bolton as a tall man who stoops over to talk to people. Silly me. I guess he only does that figuratively.

    2. “Maybe he won’t be around on Election Day, if he has the courage of his convictions.”
      Suppressing an “I Claudius” ref here.

      1. Please don’t suppress it, because I like “I, Claudius” and I don’t know what you mean.

        BTW, did you ever see the Muppet version, “Me, Claudius”, introduced by Alistair Cookie? It’s probably on YouTube.

  4. Clearly the right answer is to root for them both to be destroyed, preferably on a wheel of rotating knives.
    Far as anyone going to prison, only if they are bluffed successfully. No one’s going to want the classification decisions scrutinized in court. “Because I found it embarrassing” isn’t much of a basis.

  5. It will likely be his last vote for President, as he blew it with the classification review of his book and is likely looking at felony criminal charges.
    The administration was dragging its heels, but he could have gone to court to force the administration into speeding it up.
    (but then again it is likely that the guy Ellis that was reviewing his book for classified material is ALSO going to end up in prison)

    1. Justin, if you are claiming Bolton will be convicted in court of law, I am very dubious. The Trump Administration’s track record on actually proving anything they claim is about nil. If you mean by executive order to Guantanamo or some other star chamber proceeding, you may be on to something.

      1. I’ll quote the judge in his ruling who has seen the governments supporting facts.

        “Bolton could have sued the government and sought relief in court. Instead, he opted out of the review process before its conclusion. Unilateral fast-tracking carried the benefit of publicity and sales, and the cost of substantial risk exposure. This was Bolton’s bet: If he is right and the book does not contain classified information, he keeps the upside mentioned above; but if he is wrong, he stands to lose his profits from the book deal, exposes himself to criminal liability, and imperils national security. Bolton was wrong”

        1. How can Bolton imperil national security, if, according to Trump, the book is nothing but a pack of lies?

        2. I think there are two separate issues here:

          1. Did he reveal classified info?

          2. Did he imperil national security?

          To conflate the two is to assume that all the classified info in the book was properly placed under the classified umbrella, as opposed to material that was placed there under the pretext of national security but really to prevent embarrassment. To assume such integrity in the present administration is, I would suggest, laughably naive. I wouldn’t even be surprised if material was classified post facto, after people reviewed drafts of Bolton’s book.

          Anyway, it’s just speculation on my part, but my guess is that the answers to my questions above are:

          1. Yes, some material in Bolton’s book is classified. It may be improperly classified, and it may have been classified after Bolton’s book had been reviewed, but I have no doubt that classified info is in there. The judge looked at the government’s arguments and came to the same conclusion.

          2. There’s probably nothing in there that really presents a national security risk. I’m guessing that the judge improperly conflated the exposure of top secret info with genuine harm to the country. Of course I could be incorrect. I’ve only read 10% of the book, and I’ve heard 0% of the government’s arguments. At any rate, the book is now circulating in common knowledge, so there should now be any evidence we need to conduct a lively debate on that subject.

          Furthermore, there is the point that Adam made earlier. Trump constantly undercuts his own lawyers. They can’t claim that the book endangers national security if Trump says it’s all lies. The claim that Bolton reveals classified info is an admission that Bolton has told the truth, because the government obviously could not have classified imaginary information.

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