- Title: John Bolton's book hits New York bookstores
- Date: 23rd June 2020
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (JUNE 23, 2020) (REUTERS) "NEW RELEASES SIGN" / "THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED," BY JOHN BOLTON ON BOOKSHELF CLOSE OF "JOHN BOLTON" ON BOOK COVER CLOSE OF PAGES IN BOOK CLOSE OF BOOK COVER FLOOR OF NEW YORK BARNES & NOBLE WITH BOLTON'S BOOK ON BOOKSHELF CLOSE OF "A WHITE HOUSE MEMOIR" ON BOOK COVER PILE OF COPIES READER FLIPPING THROUGH BOOK PAGES
- Embargoed: 7th July 2020 19:47
- Keywords: Barnes & Noble Donald Trump John Bolton Manhattan The Room Where it Happened
- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / SUFFOLK, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDON
- City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / SUFFOLK, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDON
- Country: USA
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001CJLDPON
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: The highly anticipated memoir of a former senior official in the Trump administration debuted in New York bookstores Tuesday (June 23).
A U.S. judge denied on Saturday a request by the Trump administration for an injunction to block publication of the book by Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton that alleges the president sought China's help to win re-election.
The administration had sought a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the publication of "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," saying it contained classified information and threatened national security.
The book hit store shelves on Tuesday. It has already been in the hands of media organizations.
The CEO of Barnes & Noble has great expectations for Bolton's tome.
"We've had huge demand even before publication through the online channels, people reserving the book and ensuring they got it," the CEO, James Daunt, told Reuters. "And I saw an hour or so ago as a snapshot saying that it was achieving extraordinarily high sales. Not... not surprising. It's obviously dominated the news for some time now."
A civil suit is pending against Bolton that seeks to force him to give the United States the right to all of the profits from the book.
Speaking to reporters as he departed the White House to fly to a campaign rally in Oklahoma, Trump again charged that Bolton had released classified information and lauded the judge's rebuke of Bolton as "a great ruling."
Bolton's book has drawn wide attention for its withering portrayal of Trump. Bolton describes Trump as imploring Chinese President Xi Jinping for help in winning his 2020 re-election bid, and details alleged improprieties not addressed in Trump's impeachment trial.
Trump ousted Bolton, a foreign policy hawk, last September after 17 months as national security adviser.
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