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NEW YORK (AP) — Former national security adviser John Bolton has a book deal, The Associated Press has learned.
The hawkish Bolton
departed in September because of numerous foreign policy disagreements
with President Donald Trump. He reached a deal over the past few weeks
with Simon & Schuster, according to three publishing officials with
knowledge of negotiations. The officials were not authorized to discuss
the deal publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Two
of the officials said the deal was worth about $2 million. Bolton was
represented by the Javelin literary agency, whose clients include former
FBI Director James Comey and the anonymous Trump administration
official whose book, “A Warning,” comes out Nov. 19.
The
publishing officials did not know the title or release date. Simon
& Schuster declined comment Saturday and Javelin did not immediately
respond to a request for comment. Bolton’s 2007 book, “Surrender is Not
an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad,” was
published by the conservative Simon & Schuster imprint Threshold
Editions.
Bolton’s name has come up often recently during the House impeachment inquiry
, which has focused on Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate
potential 2020 election rival Joe Biden, the former vice president.
In
a transcript of a closed-door interview released Friday, a former
national security official described how Bolton had “immediately
stiffened” as Ambassador Gordon Sondland “blurted out” that he had
worked out a trade — Ukrainians’ probe for an Oval Office welcome for
Ukraine’s new president — with Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick
Mulvaney.
Fiona
Hill said Bolton later told her that “I am not part of whatever drug
deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up” and asked her to relay that
message to a White House lawyer.
Meanwhile, a letter from Bolton’s attorney
to the top lawyer for the House alleges that Bolton was “part of many
relevant meetings and conversations” pertaining to the House impeachment
inquiry of Trump that are not yet public.
The attorney, Charles Cooper, suggests Bolton will appear before Congress only if a judge orders him to do so.
Appointed
in April 2018, Bolton was Trump’s third national security adviser and
is known for advocating military action abroad, a viewpoint Trump has
resisted. In a speech in late September to the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, given after he left the administration, Bolton
offered a far more aggressive approach to North Korea’s nuclear program
than the one advocated by Trump, who has spoken warmly about North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
“Every
day that goes by makes North Korea a more dangerous country,” Bolton
said. “You don’t like their behavior today, what do you think it will be
when they have nuclear weapons that can be delivered to American
cities?”
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