Trump threatened John Bolton and plans to stop his book ‘The Room Where it Happened’

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US President Donald Trump has threatened the former national security adviser John Bolton. He also suggested criminal problems over his tell-all book. Trump is looking to block the book legally as the tell-all book written by the former White House aide Bolton is ready for publication. He said the author should anticipate criminal problems. Bolton’s highly anticipated book, ’The Room Where it Happened’, has been held up for months by an extensive process of vetting. Its release date was pushed back first from March to May, and then to 23 June 2020. The US Attorney General and White House have claimed that the publication of the book would disclose classified information, but it has already been shipped to distributors’ warehouses.

The book is expected to say that the investigation that saw Trump impeached didn’t touch on the full scale of the administration’s misconduct. A publisher Simon & Schuster said, “The House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump’s Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy”. Trump was asked at the Monday press conference that why he is trying to stop publication of the book, he replied that he wasn’t impressed with Bolton during his work for Trump administration and the book was inappropriate. Somebody said he went out and wrote a book. If he wrote a book, I can’t imagine that he can because that’s highly classified information.

President Trump added, “Even conversations with me, they’re highly classified, I told that to the attorney general before, I will consider every conversation with me as president highly classified. So that would mean that if he wrote a book and the book gets out that he’s broken the law. And I would think that he’d have criminal problems. I hope so, otherwise. I mean they put a sailor in jail because he put a photograph of his bed and an engine of an old submarine. And this guy’s writing things about conversations, or about anything, and maybe he’s not telling the truth, he’s been known not to tell the truth, a lot. But it’s up to the attorney general”.