Bolton misquoted Trump comments about third term, former adviser says

Former national security adviser John Bolton failed to get that President Trump was joking when he said that he should be able to serve more than two terms, another former adviser says.

In an excerpt from his controversial forthcoming book, The Room Where It Happened, Bolton claimed that in a 2018 encounter with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said, “people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for [Trump],” in response to Xi saying that “he wanted to work with Trump for six more years.”