Trump hoped Covid-19 would ‘take out’ former aide John Bolton, book claims

• Nightmare Scenario details final year of presidency

• Washington Post reporters’ book one of several on Trump

Donald Trump wanted Covid-19 to “take out” his former national security adviser John Bolton, a new book is set to reveal, as a heated summer of further colourful revelations about the controversial former president spills out from competing tomes.

The forthcoming Nightmare Scenario will stake out the claim, in addition to telling of how Trump advocated shipping Americans who contracted coronavirus while abroad to the prison at Guantánamo Bay.

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