TIL Desk/World/Washington/ President Donald Trump virtually pleaded with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a G-20 summit for help in his reelection, former US national security adviser John Bolton has claimed in a new book. The White House has said the forthcoming book by Bolton is “full of classified information” and the Department of Justice has sought a temporary restraining order blocking its release.
Excerpts from the book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir”, were carried by The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. Published by Simon & Schuster, the book is slated to hit the stores on June 23. Bolton was fired by the president last year. “This book is full of classified information, which is inexcusable.
Former national security adviser John Bolton should know all too well that it”s unacceptable to have highly classified information from the government of the United States in a book that will be published. It”s unacceptable. It has not gone through the review process, and that”s where we currently stand,” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters at a news conference.
