It is a failure for Donald Trump. A U.S. federal judge refused on Saturday June 20 to ban the release of the explosive book of Donald Trump's former adviser, John Bolton. A ban demanded by the administration of the president.

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John Bolton "posed a risk to the national security of the United States" and "put his country in danger," said Justice Royce Lamberth, in his decision.

But "the government has failed to establish that a ban would prevent irreparable damage. Its request is therefore denied," he concluded. Shortly after he made his conclusion, Donald Trump said that his ex-advisor Bolton would pay "the high price" for his book.

"Bolton broke the law and was criticized and reprimanded for it, with a very high price to pay. He likes to drop bombs on people and kill them. Now it is him that bombs are going to be dropped", a he also said on Twitter.

.... Bolton broke the law and has been called out and rebuked for so doing, with a really big price to pay. He likes dropping bombs on people, and killing them. Now he will have bombs dropped on him!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2020

"I don't really see what I can do with all these books already distributed across the country," Royce Lamberth warned on Friday. "The damage is already done, it seems to me," he lamented, while the book is due out on Tuesday.

The United States government had made this last-minute request to block the publication of "The Room Where It Happened", a chronicle of the author's 17 months with the occupier of the Oval Office as national security advisor, in 2018-2019.

Government lawyer David Morrell said the book was loaded with "classified" information.

With AFP

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