John Bolton on Civil Rights

	John Bolton on Civil Rights

Trump put human rights violations second to China trade

CNN obtained a copy of the book before its June 23 release, which the White House is scrambling furiously to stop. Here are some of the things we've learned from Bolton's tell-all about his former boss:

Trump had no problem with China's concentration camps: Bolton describes several instances where Trump waffles on China-related issues after conversations with Xi, notably on the mass concentration camps Beijing was using to imprison and 're-educate' Uyghur Muslims. Bolton writes that according to the US interpreter in the room during a conversation between Xi and Trump at the G-20 meeting in June 2019, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was 'exactly the right thing to do.' Bolton adds that Trump didn't wan

Source: CNN excerpts from "The Room Where It Happened" , Jun 18, 2020

Supports gay marriage, at state and federal level

On gay marriage, I support it, at both the state level and the federal level. Gay marriage is something I've thought about at length as I've looked at my future. I concluded, a couple years ago, that I think it should be permissible and treated the same at both levels. Bolton calls himself a Goldwater conservative, for the most part, at heart. (Goldwater, too, was more moderate on social issues later in his career.) Source: Robert Costa in the National Review , Aug 22, 2013

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