'John Bolton, in his own words, is revealing that the emperor has no clothes,' said the former Obama deputy national security adviser.
Rhodes also criticized Bolton, suggesting that he was more concerned about profits from his book than the good of the country. However, he noted that the former Trump administration official's book would lay out the president's"corruption."
Speaking to an audience at Duke University in North Carolina on Monday, Bolton raised concerns about White House"censorship" of his yet unpublished manuscript. Democrats and two moderate Republicans voted to call Bolton as a witness in the president's Senate trial, but the motion was blocked by the GOP majority in the upper chamber. According to previous reporting by, Bolton's unpublished book alleges that Trump explicitly told his former adviser he did not want to release military aid to Ukraine until it agreed to launch investigations into Joe Biden and his son Hunter as well as Ukrainian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
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