White House has issued formal threat to Bolton to keep him from publishing book

[yaesu]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)The White House has issued a formal threat to former national security adviser John Bolton to keep him from publishing his book, "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

The White House had no comment. Neither Bolton nor a spokesman for the publisher, Simon & Schuster, responded to a request for comment.
The letter comes in the midst of President Donald Trump attacking Bolton on Twitter, and Bolton's lawyer accusing the White House of corrupting the vetting process for Bolton's book by sharing the contents of the book with those outside the National Security Council's Records Management Division.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/29/politics/donald-trump-john-bolton-white-house-book/index.html

[C_U_L8R]

1. But Trump just said it was fiction.

Oh they’re so confused.

[dchill]

2. A threat wearing a tuxedo?

[sinkingfeeling]

3. The CNN story doesn't cite the letter nor threat.

[yaesu]

4. I believe tRump is refusing his books publication due to sensitive material, Bolton wants to testify

which would place that sensitive material into public record thus negating the sensitive material claim and freeing the book to be published.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Here's the letter:

Link to tweet

[yaesu]

6. 👍👍👍

[OneCrazyDiamond]

7. Executive Order 13526

Something that agent orange liked that Former President Obama did.

[iluvtennis]

8. Sorry, I don't beleive that John Bolton would put classified information in his manuscript. Trump

admin is LYING.

[Dennis Donovan]

9. Yup - Bolton knows better than to do so. This is a transparent hail-mary attempt to stop the book

...but it's waaayyy too late.

[onetexan]

12. yup, as with everything else they're claiming classified info, national security and exec privilege

as coverup tools.

[calimary]

16. Frankly, when is the trump admin NOT lying?

[AtheistCrusader]

18. One assumes they sleep, sometimes. So when they are unconscious.

[calimary]

28. Unless he talks in his sleep. Probably lies there, too.

Maybe mumbles out the name of some former (or present) backstage girl - which would help explain why Melania doesn't live in the White House as has been reported.

[iluvtennis]

31. LOL :-) nt

[AtheistCrusader]

17. See, you used the word 'the' and 'and' and 'also', so we're going to have to classify the whole book

[wishstar]

26. I knew WH would try to shut him up. Bet Bolton had heads up and approved leak of book details.

Bolton associates undoubtedly coordinated the leaks to NY Times knowing this would happen and they had to leak info before a formal letter was issued.

I had been thinking that it would be ridiculously unfair for Hunter Biden to testify only for WH to totally block Bolton if he was subpoened

[MadLinguist]

10. hilarious! The letter was dated January 23, 2020

which pretty well lines up with obstruction charges, since the (mal-)administration had possession of the manuscript for at least 3 weeks prior to that, and the 23rd coincides with the outpouring of new information, fueling calls for witnesses.

[beachbumbob]

11. whitehouse had copies made and distributed, so its NO Nation Security issue can be argued

its laughable.

[YOHABLO]

13. Just another of the multiple cover-ups and obstructions of this admin.

[OMGWTF]

22. Add it to the miles-long list of impeachable offenses.

[YOHABLO]

23. absolutely !

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Trump is shitting bricks

He'll need to flush his toilet more than 15 times.

[YOHABLO]

24. Nah, he's perpetually constipated. Can't you read that in his face?

[JohnnyRingo]

30. Comment Of The Day

Still laughing

[DBoon]

15. Someone innocent would never do this

Trump is guilty as hell

[Thekaspervote]

19. So dotard read book??!!

[denem]

20. LOL - He didn't like the illustrations

[Cousin Dupree]

21. No. One of his aides read it to trump after they diapered him and put him to bed.

[riversedge]

34. oh, nasty. a good nasty.

[PJMcK]

25. Watch what happens now

Simon & Schuster should go ahead and publish Bolton's book. Let the Trump administration try to bring a lawsuit against the publisher. Trump won't do it because he can't win in court. His claims of national security will not hold up.

Something about the Pentagon Papers is tingling in the back of my memory...

[calimary]

29. I would hope that would spur the prickly Bolton to want to talk even more.

Especially if he wants to clear any doubt that he's got a new book full of classified information he's supposedly spilling the beans about.

Nicolle Wallace made a very good point about this. John Bolton has written SIX books. All vetted and pronounced clean and clear for publishing. She said Bolton knows better than to blab classified info when he's writing a book. Besides, as the old saying points out: "this ain't his first rodeo."

[lark]

27. I 100% knew this would happen.

People were saying, how can he (drumpf) do that and the answer is he will try anything and the Justice Dept. will back him up because Barr thinks drumpf is functionally a king. Of course drumpf is going to classify as top secret his & his co-conspirators treason & criminality. Since drumpf is such an asshole & always leaks like a sieve, there are numerous people with copies of the manuscript and they could just release them. Someone who has them is leaking already, so wouldn't they leak it all? I think that would be perfect because the truth gets out and stache doesn't profit.

[Progressive Jones]

32. I'd publish it anyway. nt

[TheFourthMind]

33. Trump throws hissy fit after finishing picture book version of Bolton's manuscript.

Took him two days to finish it. The "read" was perfect.