Court Strikes Out Trump's Request To Stop Release Of Ex-Adviser, John Bolton's Tell-All Book

The lawsuit by US President Donald Trump filed to stop the publication of tell-all book by John Bolton, who was Trump's third national security adviser has been rejected by the court. It was struck out by a federal judge.

Botlon was national security adviser for President Trump between April 2018 and September 2019, when he resigned but Trump claims he fired Bolton.

Judge Royce Lamberth is a sitting judge of the US District Court in Washington DC m, noted that Mr Bolton had "gambled" with US national security and also "exposed his country to harm", maintained that the US government had "failed to establish that an injunction would prevent irreparable harm".

 In Lamberth's words he said;

"In taking it upon himself to publish his without securing final approval from national intelligence authorities, Bolton may indeed have caused the country irreparable harm.

"But in the internet age, even a handful of copies in circulation could irrevocably destroy confidentiality. A single dedicated individual with a book in hand could publish its contents far and wide from his local coffee shop. With hundreds of thousands of copies around the globe - many in newsrooms - the damage is done. There is no restoring the status quo.

"For reasons that hardly need to be stated, the court will not order a Nationwide seizure and destruction of a political memoir."   

Though the judge averred that Bolton, Trump's former adviser could still be exposed to criminal liability. 

His judgement on Saturday quickly dispelled a long-shot attempt the Trump administration to stymy the book's release. An attempt which is roundly condemned as antithetical to the First Amendment.

Trump said the book is "made up of lies and fake stories" yet the justice department on its own part said the book had not been vetted properly. 

Mr Bolton's lawyers in court however dismissed the claim as they insisted that the manuscript was thoroughly examined and it is just that Mr Trump simply didn't like the contents of the tell-all book by Bolton. 

The memoir, which is titled "The Room Where It Happened", is officially set for publication on Tuesday, but physical and digital copies of the book has already been circulating in Washington for several days which has generated a lot of unflattering headlines for Trump and the White House.

200,000 copies of the book have already been sent to resellers, according to Bolton's publisher.

Publisher excerpts from Bolton's book have proved highly embarrassing to Trump and the White House. Revelations including what Bolton says is impeachable conduct in seeking re-election help from foreign countries, China among them, and the president's ignorance of basic geopolitical realities.