.MaddowBlog: Fearing revelations, Pres. Trump sends shot across John Bolton's bow
President Donald Trump called his one-time national security advisor John Bolton's forthcoming book "highly inappropriate" on Monday and said it would be a "criminal problem" if the book published. The president, who has also said he hasn't read the memoir, told reporters in the cabinet room, "If he wrote a book, I can't imagine that he can because that's highly classified information.
There are a handful of relevant angles to this. For example, Trump told reporters yesterday,"I will consider every conversation with me as president highly classified. So that would mean that if he wrote a book and if the book gets out, he's broken the law and I would think he would have criminal problems. I hope so."
The idea that"every conversation" with a president can be"considered" highly classified is absurd. If Trump isn't aware of that, some lawyers probably ought to bring him up to speed. That said, the Republican did raise the prospect of Bolton facing"criminal liability," turning the matter over to Attorney General Bill Barr. In the United States, we're not supposed to have a legal system in which the president sics his A.G. on those he considers politically inconvenient, but in the Trump era, this dynamic has become alarmingly routine.
Of course, even if criminal proceedings never materialize, the president's lawyers may file a civil case against Bolton, trying to block the release of the book that's scheduled to come out next week. Yes, Trump and his team have
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