John Bolton: Boris Johnson 'playing Trump like a fiddle'
Source: Politico
Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton claimed the British prime minister is playing his old boss "like a fiddle."
In an interview with Channel 4 News on Thursday, Bolton also said there was a "sea change" in president-to-prime-minister relations when Theresa May was replaced by Boris Johnson in July 2019. Bolton knew Johnson from his time as foreign secretary.
Earlier this week Bolton released an explosive account of his time in the Trump White House, with some of the book's content having leaked to U.S. media the previous week. Among the book's most striking details was the claim that the president asked China for help with his reelection bid — and that he was unaware the U.K. was a nuclear power.
Bolton told Channel 4 News that Johnson and Trump's good relationship was positive for the U.K. as "Trump can't distinguish between his personal relationships with a counterpart leader and the actual state of the national relationships between two countries."
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