Bolton Bookbomb: Former National Security Adviser John Bolton writes in his new memoir that House Democrats bungled the impeachment of President Trump, skipping over serious misuse of power for his personal benefit.

  “A president may not misuse the national government’s legitimate powers by defining his own personal interest as synonymous with the national interest, or by inventing pretexts to mask the pursuit of personal interest under the guise of national interest,” Bolton writes. “Had the House not focused solely on the Ukraine aspects of Trump’s confusion of his personal interests,” he writes, then “there might have been a greater chance to persuade others that ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ had been perpetrated.”

  As the Trump administration goes to court to block sales of the Bolton book, the stories and the reviews are already out.

  Peter Baker writes for The NY Times  that, “It is a withering portrait of a president ignorant of even basic facts about the world, susceptible to transparent flattery by authoritarian leaders manipulating him and prone to false statements, foul-mouthed eruptions and snap decisions that aides try to manage or reverse.”

  Bolton writes that Trump did not know Britain was a nuclear power and that Finland was not part of Russia.

  Bolton carries his own baggage as a right wing hawk, but compared to Trump he’s the voice of sanity.

  The book, “The Room Where it Happened,” says Trump asked China’s President Xi Jinping for help with his re-election; approved the Chinese building concentration camps for its Uighur citizens; and spoke about executing journalists. 

  Trump’s reaction, as usual, was to post a personal attack on Twitter; “Wacko John Bolton’s ‘exceedingly tedious’(New York Times) book is made up of lies & fake stories. Said all good about me, in print, until the day I fired him. A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war. Never had a clue, was ostracized & happily dumped. What a dope!”

  Does anyone believe Trump has read the book?

  Bolton told ABC News, “I don’t think he’s fit for office. I don’t think he has the competence to carry out the job.” He said, “There really isn’t any guiding principle that I was able to discern other than what’s good for Donald Trump’s re-election.” 

The Numbers: Former Vice President Joe Biden’s national lead over President Trump has increased to 13 points, according to a new Reuters-Ipsos poll. The 

survey says 48 percent of respondents would vote for Biden, with 35 percent saying that they would support Trump.

 Fifty-five percent of respondents said they disapprove of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, which as of this morning has killed 117,717 Americans, the most of any country.

  Trump tweeted, “Joe Biden was a TOTAL FAILURE in Government. He ‘bungled’ everything that he touched!”

Most Foul: The former Atlanta police officer who shot the fleeing Rayshard Brooks twice in the back and killing him has been charged with murder. Garrett Rolfe, faces 11 charges that could put him in prison for life, or even get him the death penalty.

  In evident protest, a high number of Atlanta cops called in sick.

  Rolfe is reported to have said, “I got him!” after the shooting and then kicked Brooks as he lay dying.  

  The second officer involved in the incident, Devin Brosnan, was charged with three counts, includingaggravated assault, stepping on Brooks shoulder while he was down, and failing to render help. The prosecutor said Brosnan is cooperating with the investigation.

The Obit Page: Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of a family that included President John F. Kennedy, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy, Eunice Shriver and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, has died at age 92.

  Although she was completely inexperienced in diplomacy, President Clinton appointed her to be ambassador to Ireland and she was a surprising success, helping to forge a peace deal with the Irish Republican Army.

The Bulletin Board: A 16-year-old rock climbing star, who was expected to compete for France in the 2021 Olympics, died after plunging 500-feet in the French Alps. Luce Douady, 16, fell Sunday off a cliff in the Grenoble area. — An Arizona sheriff who defied his governor’s stay-at-home order has tested positive for the coronavirus.  

Lawsee!: Quaker Oats announced that at long last it is changing the name and image of its 131-year-old Aunt Jemima pancake syrup and mix. The company admitted that the name and the image of a black women, which has been changed over the years to be less offensive, are  “based on a racial stereotype.” No kidding.

  Aunt Jemima is falling like the statues of Confederate war heroes after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. One old ad featuring a hefty Jemima with her hair tied in a kerchief said, “Lawsee! Folks Sho Cheer for Fluffy Energizin’ Aunt Jemima Pancakes.”

  The original Jemima image was based on a slave servant. Addressing a grown black woman as “aunt,” when she’s not your aunt, is like calling a black man “boy.”

  Now, once Quaker re-names their “syrup,” which is only distantly related to maple, maybe they could work on making it palatable.

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