Trump battles to halt memoir as Bolton calls president ‘not fit for office’

The Trump administration will go to court on Friday in an effort to halt publication of John Bolton’s memoir of his time as national security adviser, on the grounds it contains classified material.

Justice department lawyers are likely to face an uphill struggle in Washington district court, as hundreds of thousands of copies of The Room Where It Happened, due for publication on Tuesday, have already been sent to booksellers, excerpts have appeared in the press, and Donald Trump had on Twitter denounced it as “a compilation of lies and made-up stories”, dismissing Bolton as a “wacko”.

Bolton added: “I explained to him dozens of times, that the Korean peninsula was divided in 1945, but he never remembered it. In other cases, it was not possible to interfere, for example, when Theresa May (former British Prime Minister) asked: “Does her country really have nuclear weapons?”

“A lot of people know that Trump knows very little about history and does not want to study it,” Bolton said.

Earlier, Bolton published his book, in which he talked about the details of policymaking in the White House for a year and a half.

Source: Tass