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Topic: John Bolton

FBI raids ex-Trump NSA John Bolton’s house, days after he criticised ‘penalty’ tariffs on India

A fierce critic of the American President, Bolton has long been considered a Republican hawk. Bolton was Trump’s national security adviser for roughly 17 months between 2018 and 2019.

‘Fascist, racist, creepy’. What Trump’s former aides have said about him & his ‘crazytown’ administration

Trump administration was a revolving door of Washington’s who’s who, with a high attrition rate & public spats. At least 11 ex-staffers have publicly warned he’s unfit for a 2nd term.

Trump firing Esper, Mattis, Bolton and Tillerson has meant a reboot for India too

‘Trump terminations’ have meant a reboot in New Delhi as top Indian ministers, officials had developed a rapport with those who were shown the door.

Trump is bringing the Iran nuclear deal back to life

Although head-snapping reversals in Trump’s foreign policy are the norm, even for him this is a landmark and could foreshadow more stunning changes if he returns for a second term.

‘He’ll be okay’ — An unsympathetic Trump said about Modi after Iran oil sanctions

In The Room Where It Happened, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton writes about how an ‘inconsistent’ Trump and ‘wobbly’ Pompeo dealt with Iran oil sanctions.

India-Pakistan Balakot tensions were never really a crisis ‘in substance’: Ex-US NSA Bolton

John Bolton’s memoir ‘The Room Where It Happened’, which releases Tuesday, recounts incidents of 26 February 2019, when President Trump was in Vietnam to meet Kim Jong-un.

Trump put re-election ahead of national security, says former NSA John Bolton

Former national security adviser John Bolton is on a media blitz to promote his tell-all book, one of the most damaging accounts yet of Trump’s White House.

Trump was eager to help autocrats by interfering in US courts, reveals John Bolton book

The details offer new evidence of Trump’s apparent willingness to use his personal political heft to curry favours with leaders leaders from Turkey to China.

Trump sought help of China’s Xi to win 2020 re-election, former NSA Bolton writes in book

Trump pleaded with Chinese President Xi last year to help him win re-election by buying more US farm products, former NSA John Bolton has written.

US sues to block the ‘book Trump doesn’t want you to read’, written by former NSA Bolton

John Bolton’s book joins a list of more than 20 written by former administration officials or others attempting to tell the inside story of Trump’s White House.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.