The American justice system examined on Friday the vitriolic book of ex-White House adviser John Bolton against Donald Trump, whose presidential candidate, already under pressure, wants to prevent publication. "I don't really see what I can do with all these books already distributed across the country," warned judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington federal court. "The damage is already done, it seems to me," he lamented, while the book is due out on Tuesday. He put his decision under advisement.
The United States government had filed this last-minute request to block the publication of The Room Where It Happened , a chronicle of the author's seventeen months with the occupier. of the Oval Office as a national security advisor in 2018-2019. Government lawyer David Morrell reiterated that the book was loaded with "classified" information. John Bolton was required not to publish anything "without written authorization" but "in exchange for money, he broke that promise," he attacked.
First amendment
Charles Cooper, the ex-adviser's lawyer with the thick white mustache, blamed him for the government a "theater" which has "nothing judicial". Invoking the first amendment to the American Constitution which enshrines freedom of expression, he pleaded that his client had largely played the game. And deplored that highly classified information invoked by the executive had in fact been after a first examination of his manuscript by the White House. "Ambassador Bolton has fulfilled his contractual obligations," he said.
"It is not true!" He has not received written authorization, ”retorted Judge Lamberth, visibly annoyed by this line of defense. "I really don't understand why he took such a risk. In any case, without waiting for the outcome of this legal tug-of-war, large extracts have already conveniently filtered in the press in recent days. It emerges the portrait of an ill-advised president and ready to do anything to be re-elected next November, even if it means asking for a boost from China, strategic adversary of the United States, and therefore endangering the sacro - holy national security.
Trump to relaunch
Opposite, the republican billionaire was unleashed on Twitter against his ex-advisor, described as "embittered who only wanted to start a war" and waited to be sacked in September to criticize his ex-boss that he defended bec and nails until then. And the Trump camp came to the rescue. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released a thunderous statement Thursday accusing John Bolton of being a “traitor who spoils America” with his “lies”.
The democratic opposition is divided between the denunciation of late revelations which would have been more useful to them during their procedure for removing the president - finally acquitted at the beginning of the year -, and the will to give an echo to this damning portrait . The White House would like the hype surrounding John Bolton's memoir to stop there, so that the spotlight is focused solely on relaunching its campaign, which was planned at a large meeting Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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