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June 18, 2020 The US Justice Department, for the second time in two days, has asked the court for an urgent order to block the release of the book by former national security advisor John Bolton. The administration of Donald Trump has sued Bolton claiming that Bolton's memoir on the White House discloses classified information and therefore violates the law. The administration therefore asked the court to prevent "national security from being jeopardized by the publication of the manuscript".

The book, entitled "The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir" will be in bookstores from June 23rd.

The book reveals that Donald Trump would have asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the re-election and encouraged him to build concentration camps for the Uyghurs, the Muslim minority in China. These are some of the explosive revelations of the ex national security adviser John Bolton, in the book "The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir", in bookstores since June 23 but of which some advances have been released. The volume, which came out just 9 months after Bolton's farewell to the White House, is already at the top of Amazon's best-seller ranking. The Trump administration, which accuses its former advisor of lying or disclosing classified information, appealed to the court.

 THE STRONGER ACCUSATIONS Trump "asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 US election," Bolton writes. And "during a summer dinner last year, he explained to Xi that increasing Beijing's purchases of American agricultural products would improve its electoral prospects." This interview would take place on the sidelines of the G20 in Japan in June 2019. After listening to Xi's motivations for building concentration camps for the Uyghurs, Trump would have shown understanding to the point of urging his colleague to go ahead with this policy of internment, considering it "the right thing to do". While the war of duties was taking place, Trump would have told Xi to consider him "the greatest Chinese leader of the past 300 years.

THE INVASION OF VENEZUEL Bolton, denouncing Trump's" surprising ignorance "in foreign policy, says that the President would have liked invade Venezuela (he would have called this hypothesis "cool" or "cool") considering the South American country "actually part of the United States."

ELTON JOHN'S CD TO GIVE TO KIM The White House tenant would have been obsessed with idea to give Kim Jong-un a CD autographed by Elton John of "Rocket Man", as a sign of affection for the North Korean dictator Trump had not too amicably nicknamed Kim "rocket man" for his missile tests.

THE FAVOR TO ERDOGAN The tycoon would also have assured Turkish President Recep Erdogan a hand in dropping the accusations against an Ankara company on which the Sou prosecutor had opened an investigation thern District of New York, explaining that however that office was not led by his men but by former President Barack Obama and that he wanted to replace them.

THE EXECUTION FOR JOURNALISTS As for the journalists, whom he never hid to detest, Trump reported to Bolton that they should be sentenced to death or thrown in prison for having the names of their sources.

TRUMP'S REACTION The tycoon, announcing that he would sue Bolton, said he considered their conversation "classified" and that therefore the publication of the book represents a violation of the law. In private, he would have given his former advisor the "traitor" mind in public he said he was not a fan of his.

PROCEEDS FROM THE BOOK For now, the release of the book is confirmed for June 23rd. According to the publishing house, Simon & Schuster, Trump does not have the power to prevent its release and the lawsuit is only "yet another attempt to block the publication of a non-edifying volume" for the president. According to what was tweeted by the lawyer Bradley P. Moss, expert on national security, the text will arrive in the bookstore but Bolton could find himself forced to turn all proceeds to the Treasury department. "Bolton will almost certainly lose the case against the Justice Department - he anticipated - and will have to give up all the profits."