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John Bolton served as national security adviser to Donald Trump from 2018 to 2019. He was previously the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and is the author of The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir. The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Mike Wiser for FRONTLINE on May 19, 2022. It has been edited for clarity and length. This interview is being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Explore the transcript of this interview, and others, on the FRONTLINE website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview-collection/lies-politics-and-democracy/ #Frontline #Interview #JohnBolton Love FRONTLINE? Find us on the PBS Video App, where there are more than 300 FRONTLINE documentaries available to watch any time: https://to.pbs.org/FLVideoApp Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/1BycsJW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinepbs Twitter: https://twitter.com/frontlinepbs Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frontline FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. CHAPTERS: Trump’s Rise - 00:00 The Decision to Join the Trump Administration - 03:58 Trump’s View of Authoritarian Leaders - 07:41 Undermining Elections - 10:14 The First Impeachment - 13:56 The Decision to Leave the White House - 23:37 The Lafayette Square Incident - 27:22 The 2020 Election and Initial Claims of Fraud - 31:13 Liz Cheney Pushes Back on Trump - 35:23 Mike Pence’s Role in the Administration - 37:58 The Republican Response to Jan. 6 - 45:41