• White House tries to block publication of John Bolton's book for containing classified material

The government of US President Donald Trump sued the president's former national security adviser, John Bolton , on Tuesday to prevent his memoir from going on sale, arguing that it reveals confidential information that may endanger security. national of the country.

The "United States of America against John Bolton" lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, seeks to prevent the expected book by the former Trump adviser from reaching bookstores when it is scheduled for June 23 .

Publishing that text "that contains confidential information" would mean a "clear breakdown of the agreements that (Bolton) signed as a condition of his employment (as Trump's adviser) and as a condition for gaining access to highly confidential information," says the Justice Department. of the United States in their lawsuit.

According to Bolton editorial Simon & Schuster , the book will reveal that Trump committed "violations similar to Ukraine's" in other aspects of his foreign policy, referring to the president's pressure on Kiev to interfere in the US elections , the issue that motivated his frustrated impeachment.

"This is the book that Donald Trump does not want them to read," the publisher proclaimed in a statement last week.

On Monday, Trump warned that Bolton will have "a very serious criminal problem" if he goes ahead with his plan to publish the book, titled 'The Room Where It Happened: Memories of the White House . '

"I will consider any conversation (that Bolton had) with me as president highly confidential," Trump said.

Bolton's book is already in print and has been sent to distribution centers across the country, which can complicate the government's attempt to prevent its content from coming to light.

The lawsuit asks the court to order "delay the publication date" of the book until Bolton allows the federal government to "complete the revision process" of its text, a procedure that began in January and has already forced the former advisor to postpone the disclosure of his memoirs for three months.

HARD TO STOP PUBLICATION

Bolton's attorney, Charles Cooper , has argued that the book does not contain any confidential material and that his client has worked with the White House National Security Council for months to allow them to review the content.

According to experts, Trump will have it difficult to stop the publication of the book, because although presidents have the power to classify national security information as secret, his argument against Bolton may contradict the provisions of the First Amendment of the Constitution , which guarantees freedom expression.

"It is very rare for American courts to avoid publishing (of books), because that suppresses the speech before it occurs," Jameel Jaffer , executive director of the First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, told The Washington newspaper. Post.

There is a precedent that works in Bolton's favor: when President Richard Nixon (1969-1974) tried to prevent the Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon papers on the Vietnam War in 1971, the Supreme Court ruled that vetoing such information before of its publication was unconstitutional.

Bolton, who was Trump's national security adviser since March 2018 and until his dismissal last September, offered in January to testify in the impeachment trial against the president and affirmed that he had unpublished and relevant information, but the majority Republican in the Senate vetoed his appearance.

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