Former National Security Adviser John Bolton has reportedly signed a book deal.
CNN and the Associated Press reported on Saturday that Bolton had signed with publisher Simon & Schuster after several weeks of negotiations.
Unnamed publishing officials told the AP the deal was worth approximately $2 million.
Though the exact release date is unknown, an anonymous source told CNN the book will be published before the 2020 elections.
House impeachment investigators are eager to hear from Bolton after several testimonies from White House officials point to the former national security adviser as a resister in President Donald Trump’s efforts to use foreign policy to pressure Ukraine into digging up dirt on his political rivals.
However, Bolton skipped his scheduled deposition on Thursday because he wants a judge to decide whether he and his former deputy, Charles Kupperman, are allowed to defy the White House’s orders to not cooperate with the impeachment investigation.
OK, I’m throwing up now. What, these people all lost jobs and are now trying to capitalize on their experience? How many more? And, who the hell will read them?
He skipped his deposition so he could have it all in the book. These people are unbelievable.
Criminal contempt of Congress. You don’t get to pick to publish a book and at the same time refuse to show up for a subpeona. Executive privelege needs to die. Plain and simple: any government or ex-government official that doesn’t comply with congressional testimony needs to be jailed. The argument for executive privelege is that advisors won’t get honest advice if they fear having to publicly air it…really? Does this actually happen? It hasn’t…it’s a made up privelege by DOJ/OLC.
It was predicted early on Bolton would reveal nothing damaging about trumPP but instead save it for a lucrative book deal. Someone will go through it, find the most damaging statements, and put them out there. That’ll be enough.
Each book comes with a free chickenhawk…
The publisher just took a $1 million bath, because unless he publishes tomorrow, everything that he might have to offer will be either old news or irrelevant by the time it comes out.