Trump accuses Bolton of breaking the law
Former national security adviser John Bolton broke the law by revealing classified information in his book, Report says, citing Reuters.
Bolton’s book contains “top-secret information” that the former adviser did not get permission to disclose, the President said.
In October 2019, it was announced that Bolton intends to write a book about his work as a national security adviser. Trump had dismissed him a month earlier, explaining his decision as a sharp divergence of views on national security issues.
President Donald Trump accused former National Security Advisor John Bolton of breaking the law by trying to publish a book on his time in the White House. His administration was seeking an emergency restraining order to halt its publication.
“He broke the law, very simple. As much as it’s going to be broken,” Trump told Sean Hannity in an interview on Fox News Wednesday night. “This is highly classified.”
According to an excerpt from Bolton’s memoir published by the Wall Street Journal, Trump asked China’s leader, Xi Jinping, during the G-20 summit in Japan last year to win re-election by buying more U.S. farm products.
That accusation is one of many that paint a devastating portrait of the Trump presidency. Bolton, the most senior official in this White House to publish an account of his experience, also claimed that Trump encouraged Xi to build detention camps in the Xinjiang region to imprison hundreds of thousands of Uighur Muslims.