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1/ Thanks to friends I was able to read the #Venezuela part of Bolton& #39;s book without having to give dime to that cretin. Some quick thoughts on it follow.
2/ Bolton basically writes as if the Democrats don& #39;t exist (expect for Obama who he blasts for being too "relaxed" about the governments Bolton thinks it is the Devine right of the US to destroy).
3/ But in terms of actual opposition inside the US to Bolton& #39;s efforts to overthrow Venezuela& #39;s democratically elected government the only force he describes as stifling him is Mnuchin. Sadly that basically accurate. In fact, when Bolton writes
4/ that "support on both sides of the isle for our hard line on Venezuela was almost uniform". Bolton might have deleted the word "almost".
5/ For example, Bolton proudly describes his twitter rampage during early 2019 - when he directly urged Venezuela& #39;s military to oust Maduro. What were Democrats tweeting to challenge Bolton (& Rubio, Pompeo etc who also flooded twitter with similar shit)? Basically fuck all.
6/ During the aid stunt of February 23 the one rare Venezuela-related tweet that @SenSanders put out reinforced the lie that Maduro had been refusing "aid". Rather than counter maniacs like Bolton, Sanders reinforced their lies. Bolton doesn& #39;t mention it in the chapter.
7/ I am just providing it an example of why the Democrats were basically ignored by Bolton. Even the top "progressive" Democrat gave the likes of Bolton, Rubio free reign on #Venezuela .
8/ Apparently both Trump and Bolton thought it was fun to threaten #Venezuela with military attack by flashing a yellow notepad a reporters. "go have fun with the press" Trump supposedly said. Rings true. squabbles aside, like-minded thugs in the end
9/ I doubt Trump called Maduro "tough" as early as Bolton claimed. That probably came later after coup attempt had undeniably stalled out by April 30.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-venezuela-maduro-tough-cookie-guaido-1420678
On">https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ven... the other hand, rings true that US had to coax Guaido back into #Venezuela after the failed aid stunt
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-venezuela-maduro-tough-cookie-guaido-1420678
On">https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ven... the other hand, rings true that US had to coax Guaido back into #Venezuela after the failed aid stunt
