{"id":713,"date":"2020-06-16T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:37:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:37:46","slug":"donald-trump-called-his-national-security-advisor-john-bolton-highly-inappropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/16\/donald-trump-called-his-national-security-advisor-john-bolton-highly-inappropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Called his National Security Advisor John Bolton \u201cHighly Inappropriate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Washington<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: President Donald Trump called his\u00a0one-time\u00a0national security advisor John Bolton&#8217;s\u00a0forthcoming book &#8220;highly inappropriate&#8221; on Monday and said it would be a \u201ccriminal problem\u201d if the book published.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The president, who has also\u00a0said he hasn&#8217;t read the memoir, told reporters in the cabinet room,\u00a0\u201cIf he wrote a book, I can\u2019t imagine that he can because that\u2019s highly classified information.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI will consider every conversation with me as president highly classified. So that would mean that if he wrote a book and if the book gets out, he\u2019s broken the law and I would think he would have criminal problems. I hope so.\u201d the president continued, saying Bolton will face\u00a0\u201ccriminal liability.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey\u2019ll soon be in court,\u201d Trump added, appearing\u00a0to confirm\u00a0reports that his administration will file a lawsuit in court seeking an injunction against the publication.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Pres. Trump claims John Bolton would be breaking federal law if his book is published in its current form.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I would think that he would have criminal problems. I would hope so.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xmcAcV1qEg\">https:\/\/t.co\/xmcAcV1qEg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dFQQ4jaErG\">pic.twitter.com\/dFQQ4jaErG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/1272648647080128512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The publication of the book has been\u00a0delayed for several months due to the classification review process lead by the White House National Security Council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barr, also speaking to reporters on Monday, said the Justice Department doesn&#8217;t\u00a0believe Bolton has\u00a0completed the clearance process\u00a0and failed to \u201cmake the necessary deletions of classified information.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Administration officials with access to sensitive information typically signing non-disclosure agreements before they can publish books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t believe that Bolton went through that process \u2014 hasn\u2019t completed the process \u2014 and, therefore, is in violation of that agreement,\u201d Barr said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolton&#8217;s attorney, Chuck\u00a0Cooper, said his client has worked with classification specialists at the NSC to avoid revealing classified material.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-717\" src=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Donald-Trump-fires-John-Bolton-1024x703.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump fires John Bolton\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsraise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Donald-Trump-fires-John-Bolton-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsraise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Donald-Trump-fires-John-Bolton-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsraise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Donald-Trump-fires-John-Bolton-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsraise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Donald-Trump-fires-John-Bolton.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolton, national security advisor from April 2018 until\u00a0September, was a central figure in the\u00a0Senate impeachment trial of Trump earlier this year following the House&#8217;s decision to forward two\u00a0charges to the Senate for consideration: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Democrats pushed for Bolton to testify before the Senate but ultimately lost\u00a0that effort when Trump was acquitted without new witnesses being called.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A manuscript of Bolton&#8217;s book was leaked around the time of the Senate&#8217;s impeachment trial, and the reported claim contradicted the president who has insisted the decision to delay the aid to Ukraine was rooted in concerns about corruption, not politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simon &amp; Schuster,\u00a0which is publishing Bolton&#8217;s book, said in a release the novel\u00a0will describe a president consumed with winning a second term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn\u2019t driven by reelection calculations,\u201d Bolton writes in the book, according to the publisher.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: President Donald Trump called his\u00a0one-time\u00a0national security advisor John Bolton&#8217;s\u00a0forthcoming book &#8220;highly inappropriate&#8221; on Monday and said it would be a \u201ccriminal problem\u201d if 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