Date: October 21st, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
Actually I'm not that far into the book. It was published in 2020 so a lot of it is OBE, but the Foreward was updated in 2024 and it's hilarious to read in retrospect. Since the book came out first I'll talk about that first.
The book: It's called The Room Where It Happened, which is an awful title. Procopius called his book "Secret History." That's a title that grabs you. "The Room Where it Happened" is weak af when you see the author is John Fucking Bolton.
The thing is, I'm 100% sure Bolton wrote the book himself, because no one else is given credit for writing or editing any of it, and because it's written like shit. Here is an actual paragraph:
"After Trump left office, using the risk of extensive discovery of both White House and Justice malfeasance, my friend and trusted lawyer Chuck Cooper obtained dismissal of Trump's civil case with prejudice. As part of the settlement, the desultory, inactive criminal gambit was also dropped."
Bolton will also switch into lawyer-mode and write long passages like this (ignore the highlights, they help me read):
https://i.imgur.com/KPK5Sqb.png
If it's not already apparent from that snippet, Bolton spends most of the Foreward (written in 2024) predicting that if Trump gets re-elected, he'll have all his enemies arrested, and Bolton predicts he'll be one of them.
I'll do the indictment in a separate poast in case anyone else has read it and wants to chime in on the merits
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788480&forum_id=2Elisa#49365065)