Bolton’s Lawyer Accuses White House Of Trying To Censor Book

TOPLINE

An attorney for former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton accused the White House of using national security as a pretext to censor Bolton’s forthcoming tell-all book about the Trump administration, “The Room Where It Happened,” which he says the White House reviewed thoroughly with Bolton, who even accepted the “vast majority” of their suggested edits.

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Key Background

A former Ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush, Bolton served as Trump’s national security advisor from March 2018 to September 2019, when he was ousted by Trump, reportedly due to his hawkish foreign policy views. Bolton’s name emerged again during Trump’s impeachment trial, when he said he would be willing to testify about whether Trump pressured the President of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden as someone with direct knowledge of the events. Bolton later hinted that answers to many of the questions left unanswered by the trial would be available in his book.

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“This is a transparent attempt to use national security as a pretext to censor Mr. Bolton, in violation of his constitutional right to speak on matters of the utmost public import,” Cooper concluded.

Tangent

Trump has been intensifying his efforts to quash embarrassing information ahead of the election. Just this week, his campaign sent a letter to CNN demanding they retract a poll showing Biden up by 14 points and apologize.