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Judge denies Trump administration request to block John Bolton’s book

By Thomas A. Smith

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Saturday denied a request by the the Department of Justice to halt the sale and distribution of a forthcoming memoir by former Trump national security advisor John Bolton.

U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth wrote that the government s request to block distribution of The Room Where it Happened, a damning memoir of Bolton s White House tenure, would be impossible to enforce because thousands of copies of the book have already been printed and shipped to distributors.

The ruling is a significant blow to the Trump White House, which has taken extraordinary steps in the past week to quash the memoir, which is set for release on Tuesday and already a bestseller.

via www.cnbc.com