JOHN BOLTON/MEDIA/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “John Bolton, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, raised concern on Monday [2-17-20] about his unpublished book being ‘suppressed’ by the White House and suggested he should be able to respond to the president’s tweets about him…Asked about the president’s criticism of him on Twitter, Bolton said: ‘He (Trump) tweets, but I can’t talk about it. How fair is that?’ Bolton, 71, left his post in September after disagreements with the president. Trump said he fired him. Bolton said he quit. Media outlets reported in October that Bolton, a leading foreign policy hawk, was planning to write a book about his time in the Trump administration. The New York Times reported that Bolton wrote in his manuscript that Trump wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democratic rival Joe Biden — an allegation that fueled Trump’s impeachment.”
–Jan Wolfe, “Bolton says he hopes book is not ‘suppressed’ by White House,” Reuters, February 17, 2020 8:59 pm