John Bolton could yet test Trump’s remarkable ability to face down problems

We have in the past condemned John Bolton as a dangerous superhawk, a warmonger and right-wing extremist. We now realise that he is, in fact a staunch defender of democracy, the constitution and liberal values.”

The parody of public volte-faces Private Eye magazine is fond of using is now perhaps apt to describe the reaction of Democrats and other adversaries of Donald Trump after the former national security advisor emerged with his highly damaging revelations about the president’s attempts to push the Ukrainian government into investigating Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

Republican senators blocked Bolton from giving evidence in the impeachment proceedings. But he can still harm Trump with what he chooses to make public in his impending book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir and the rounds of media interviews which will follow.