Wait, I thought the White House Was Going to Ban This Book!?!

Bolton writes that he reported what he saw as impeachable offenses to Barr and Pat Cipollone, the WH counsel, per @peterbakernyt https://t.co/BBDpdcmYqd

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 17, 2020

That's NYT.  This is WaPo:

Trump suggesting that invading Venezuela would be "cool." Trump's top aides — including Sec. Pompeo — mocking him behind his back. Trump asking if he should replace Pence with Haley on the 2020 ticket. @jdawsey1's buzzy account of the Bolton book: https://t.co/RGxeGgp7HF

— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) June 17, 2020

And WSJ:

Regardless of the cravenness of excoriating Democrats while not speaking out voluntarily at the time, this is an extraordinary excerpt that mirrors what Trump was accused of doing with Ukraine > https://t.co/FaNKpqpZMA

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 17, 2020

Guess that TRO's gonna be moot before it's asked for, huh?

And yes, this pretty much leaves the lawsuit down to "Give us the money."  Which the court's not even gonna consider for a long, long time, and certainly not before November.

And I didn't get this memo, subject: "Clamor."

"Trump told Xi that Americans were clamoring for him to change the constitutional rules to serve more than two terms, according to the book." https://t.co/oCD6eDplQk

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 17, 2020

And "Russia, are you listening?"

"Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win." https://t.co/FaNKpqpZMA

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 17, 2020

Keep in mind Trump is a "Stable genius:"

This was three months *after* the appointment of Geoffrey Berman as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York https://t.co/0C3a9uQH4R pic.twitter.com/98ANTRwOwh

— erica orden (@eorden) June 17, 2020