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John Bolton Hints at How Much More He Still Has to Tell

In his first public appearance since the impeachment inquiry, Trump’s former national security adviser made news by suggesting what his book may reveal.
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DURHAM, N.C.—John Bolton has been called many things over his long career, plenty of them unflattering, but he has seldom been accused of being bashful about stating his opinions.

Yet in an interview at Duke University on Monday, his first public remarks since the impeachment inquiry into President Trump began, the former national security adviser tried something new: saying as little as possible. The effect was peculiar, as even Bolton’s most determined attempts to deliver nonanswers seemed like answers, and his most anodyne statements were taken as scathing attacks.

Each time the moderator, Peter Feaver, a

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