Democrats want it both ways on Bolton book

Published June 18, 2020 11:04pm ET



John Bolton’s dishy tell-all has Democrats begrudgingly walking a fine line between torching the Trump administration official and highlighting his most scurrilous claims.

Bolton and his publisher Simon & Schuster this week pushed out advanced copies of President Trump’s former national security adviser’s highly anticipated book, The Room Where It Happened. In its pages, set for public release on Tuesday, Bolton paints an unflattering picture of the White House in which he worked for a year and a half until last September.

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