Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter mocked President Trump’s decision to defend accusations leveled against him in a tell-all book written by his former national security adviser.
Coulter lashed out against Trump on Thursday, accusing him of disregarding growing unrest throughout the United States in favor of defending accusations brought by John Bolton in a leaked copy of his new book The Room Where It Happened.
“The country is burning, cities destroyed, an innocent policeman is charged with a death penalty offense in Atlanta because of his race and all Trump can talk about is a book by a disloyal former advisor,” Coulter tweeted. “It’s all about HIM.”
[Byron York’s Daily Memo: John Bolton’s lonely book tour]
The country is burning, cities destroyed, an innocent policeman is charged with a death penalty offense in Atlanta because of his race and all Trump can talk about is a book by a disloyal former advisor. It’s all about HIM.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 18, 2020
Coulter defended Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe who was charged with murder in the death of Rayshard Brooks after he was fatally shot while running away from two police officers. Video of the encounter shows Brooks fighting with the police officers before shooting a Taser at one officer who fired the deadly rounds.
Trump has spent much of the past few days slamming Bolton for possibly including classified information in the book.
“When you do classified, that to me is a very strong criminal problem, and he knows he’s got classified information,” Trump said on Sunday.
Bolton has alleged Trump called Chinese President Xi Jinping the “greatest leader in Chinese history,” said journalists “should be executed,” and instructed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to “go after” Bitcoin.
Although she claimed last year that she intends to vote for Trump in 2020, Coulter has been one of the president’s sharpest critics on the Right, continually attacking the slow construction of a promised border wall.
