I'm going to skip over your mind-blowing revisionism of January 6th for a moment and talk about John Bolton.
I never liked John Bolton's politics or view of the world. He struck me as a warmonger who was not afraid of the exercise of unipolar power in the most Machiavellian way. Pax Americana worked because "America is great because it is good" (a quote often falsely attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville) and so because it was fundamentally good, American presidents exercised restraint. Bolton was not cut from that cloth. He was a neocon imperialist. He came across as a patriot in the worst possible way.
When Bolton joined Trump's cabinet, I was very apprehensive about it. I remember thinking, would the feeble-minded and impulsive Trump be swayed towards an attack on Iran or Cuba or North Korea? But like most cabinet members in Trump's first term, he walked away pretty quickly.
As to the veracity of the charges, I don't have a view other than to say I don't doubt that an American court got it wrong. (As an aside, American judges, in my view, seem incorruptible even if, by Anglo-Commonwealth standards, politically partisan. I don't understand how judges are voted in, incidentally. Judges shouldn't be appointed on a political platform.)
