Six days before it was put on the market, the subject of John Bolton's book has become the hottest event in the American capital, despite the Corona pandemic and the great losses it caused, the massive demonstrations and the momentum and spread it gained.

The issue of publishing the book "The Room in which This Happened ... The White House Memoirs" to former National Security Adviser John Bolton entered a new turn after a lawsuit was filed by the White House demanding that the book be halted, with a claim that included national security secrets that should not be made public.

Hours after the administration of President Donald Trump filed a case with the Federal Court in Washington, D.C., to stop the publication of John Bolton's book, the latter chose to republish the tweet of a statement by the American Civil Rights Union, in which he asserted Bolton's constitutional right in accordance with the first amendment to publish a book about his tenure at the White House.

However, President Trump does not agree with this view, telling reporters yesterday, "Bolton will violate federal law if his book is published in its current form, and I will regard any conversation with me as a very classified president."

The Trump administration accuses Bolton of "violating the terms of the contract" in a move aimed at blocking the publication of his book, which the lawsuit says contains secret information that could endanger US national security.

In front of the new turning point in the issue of publishing the book, the issue of the spread of the Corona virus in the country has receded, and the news of the ongoing and unprecedented protests movement during which millions of Americans demonstrated against police racism against blacks in hundreds of American cities has receded, replacing them with Bolton's book at the top of American media concerns Read and visible.

The book .. timing is sensitive

Traditionally, Democrats see Bolton as a war advocate and a very radical person, but he is now an important source providing them with documented information and attitudes damaging Trump's stance in the November 3 election race.

Publication laws require government employees who have worked on issues related to national security and have a desire to publish books on their experiences, to submit their drafts for review before publication with the previous employer, to ensure that no secrets are published.

John Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, confirmed - in a statement to the American media - that he "sent the copy of the book to the White House National Security Council on December 30 to review it and ensure that it does not violate the rules for publishing any US national security secrets."

The sequence of events in recent weeks

The lawsuit filed by the White House dated April 27, when a National Security Council official informed Bolton's lawyer, indicated that the book had been reviewed, and that they were in the process of making a decision.

On May 2, the National Security Council intelligence official Michael Ellis sent a letter to Bolton's attorney, stating that the book contained secrets that should not be published.

On the eighth of this month, a lawyer at the National Security Council sent a letter to Bolton and the publishing company, confirming that the book could not be published because it is full of secrets that are harmful to the national security of the United States.

Cooper responded a few days ago with an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, in which he referred to Trump's bid to silence Bolton's voice.

A few days ago, the famous publishing house Simon & Schuster confirmed that it had shipped the book boxes to the sales and distribution centers, where the book will be issued on the 23rd of this month.

Trump's defense

Trump's defense relies on protecting the "CEO's powers", led by his secret conversations with his top aides, and arguing that Bolton's testimony will harm the president's current and future powers, especially when making important foreign policy decisions.

Trump had expressed his anger and accused Bolton of seeking to "make profits from the sales of his book."

This was supported by Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and ally of President Trump, who accused Bolton of treason.

"This is not Bolton, whom I have known for many years," Gingrich said. "The White House has confirmed that it has not complied with the procedures to follow to publish a book on a president still in power, and foreign policy issues the country is currently engaged in."

And the White House lawsuit sees that, "Bolton's position allowed him to see the most dangerous national security secrets, but - just two months after his dismissal - he signed a contract for two million dollars to publish the book, and gave 500 pages to the publisher containing dangerous secrets that threatened to spread US interests and security. , Which is in violation of the agreement to maintain the confidentiality of the information that he signed before he began working in the White House.

Bolton's defense

And many Republican and Democratic experts expected that the White House's efforts to stop publishing the book would not succeed as scheduled.

Ben Weizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Discourse, Privacy and Technology Project, noted that "Half a century ago, the Supreme Court rejected a similar attempt by the Nixon administration to prevent the issuance of the Pentagon Papers, and since then, it has become consistently and consistently established that any prior restrictions on publication are considered Constitutional and non-American. "

Fox News expert Howard Kurtz agreed with Wisner’s vision, saying that “the administration must prepare to publish the book, shipments of it have already reached distribution centers. Perhaps what Trump really dreams about is postponing the publication of the book until the end of the election, but that is very difficult.” ".

As for CNN's media affairs expert Brian Stillter, he believes that "it is crazy to imagine that all of the president's conversations with his aides are secrets of US national security. Trump cannot prevent the book from being published. It prejudices any damage that might result from its publication."

How will Bolton behave?

Bolton's background as a law student at Yale University, his previous work in the Justice Department during President Ronald Reagan's rule, and his accession to the State Department under George Bush; Man has strong knowledge of the vestiges of American political bureaucracy.

Bolton's entrenched partisan loyalty to Republicans is a point where it is difficult to foresee what he will do, if he is to campaign against President Trump in the presidential election season.

The former ambassador, who is currently an expert on the Atlantic Council, David Mac-for Al-Jazeera Net- spoke about his long years of work alongside John Bolton in the administration of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Senior.

"I have great ideological differences with John Bolton, but as a fellow he is considered to be more than good, works hard and tirelessly, and his acceptance of work in the Trump administration was a big surprise to me. Trump was lucky to choose Bolton as his adviser, but he was stupid not to listen to his advice. Bolton was wrong about Iran, but he was right about the rest of the foreign files. "

The contents of the book

And on the most prominent contents of the book, the publisher Simon & Schuster said - in a statement distributed to journalists - that the book documents the violations committed by Trump that exceeds the pressures he exerted on Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden, and led to his accusation by the Democrats and his trial in Congress.

The book is also expected to criticize President Trump for his handling of multiple crises during Bolton's tenure at the White House.

Press reports indicated that the main foreign policy issues such as Ukraine, Russia, China, Iran, Britain, France and North Korea are the focus of the book, and they are the issues and files that Bolton affirms that all of Trump's positions and decisions regarding them are motivated by the accounts of his re-election and not the interests of the United States of America.

Bolton served as the National Security Adviser from April 2018 to September 2019, to be the third person to hold this position under Trump, but he was dismissed from his position following differences over foreign policy toward withdrawing from Afghanistan and the idea of ​​inviting Taliban leaders to visit Washington.