BREAKING: Federal prosecutors are mulling criminal charges against John Bolton
Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to criminally charge John Bolton with disclosing classified information in his upcoming White House memoir, and the Justice Department is expected in coming days to ramp up its legal campaign to block publication of a book that is being billed as a scathing rebuke of President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
The suit alleges that Bolton is in breach of nondisclosure agreements that required such a review and clearance by the National Security Council before he can publish a book. Story continuesThe Justice Department is under pressure from Trump to block the book's release. On Monday, Trump said that his former national security advisor faced a “criminal problem” if he didn’t halt publication.
Simon & Schuster has touted the book as an inside account of the Trump White House in which Bolton describes “the president’s inconsistent, scattershot decision-making process and his dealings with allies and enemies alike, from China, Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, Iran, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.”
In a meeting with Xi in June 2019, Bolton wrote,"Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words, but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.
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