Trump is trying to block publication of John Bolton's book. What's he scared of? | Lloyd Green
The memoir reportedly depicts Trump as caring more about re-election than US national security. No wonder he wants to quash it
On Tuesday, the Trump administration asked a federal judge to block publication of John Bolton’s The Room Where It Happened, the former national security adviser’s twice-delayed kiss-and-tell memoir of life in the Trump White House. Last week, Simon & Schuster, Bolton’s publisher, announced: “This is the book Donald Trump doesn’t want you to read.”
They got that one right. The book depicts “a president for whom getting re-elected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation”. Let that sink in.
The blow-up between Trump and Bolton also highlights divisions among conservatives. Trump is no longer everyone’s favorite
An attorney in New York, Lloyd Green was opposition research counsel to George HW Bush’s 1988 campaign and served in the Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992
