Fox News anchor Chris Wallace doesn’t believe John Bolton’s tell-all book about President Trump will have much of a long-term impact on the president.
Wallace argued that the scandalous accusations made by Bolton will “fade away” by the end of the next week without influencing the 2020 election or any other aspects of Trump’s presidency.
“Look, either you’re going to believe John Bolton, or you’re going to believe the president. What really strikes me, Harris, is I don’t think this book is going to have a lot of impact on Donald Trump’s political fortunes,” Wallace said during an interview on Outnumbered Overtime.
“I think people are so locked in on the president they either think he has helped save the country and helped build the economy and will rebuild it after the coronavirus, or they think he is the last person who should be president. And I just don’t think this is going to have a lot of impact. My guess is this is a one-week story, and then it kind of fades away,” he said.
Bolton’s book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, is scheduled to be released to the public on June 23, though many newsrooms, including the Washington Examiner, received advance copies that have been widely reported. In the book, the former national security adviser alleged that Trump sought help from China to influence the 2020 election, among many other claims.
The Justice Department has filed for a restraining order against Bolton and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, to delay the book’s release, alleging that Bolton included national secrets and classified information in the text.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said he may launch an investigation into the claims made by Bolton. Bolton refused to testify before the House when Schiff was leading the impeachment investigation.
“We haven’t had a chance to read the book. Only excerpts. So I’ll want to look deeply into the allegations and have a chance to confer about what the Congress should do about what John Bolton has to say at this very belated moment,” the California Democrat said.
