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Where Things Stand: Just The Latest DOJ Attempt To Do Trump’s Bidding

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CORTE MADERA, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 23: Copies of the new book 'The Room Where It Happened' by former national security advisor John Bolton are displayed at Book Passage on June 23, 2020 in Corte Madera, California. A co... CORTE MADERA, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 23: Copies of the new book 'The Room Where It Happened' by former national security advisor John Bolton are displayed at Book Passage on June 23, 2020 in Corte Madera, California. A controversial new book on the Trump administration by former national security advisor John Bolton hit bookstore shelves today. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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September 15, 2020 1:05 p.m.

We learned this morning that DOJ prosecutors are investigating the publication of former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s new tell-all memoir about his time in the White House, a twist in the increasingly unsurprising narrative that President Trump’s been loudly building since he appointed Bill Barr his attorney general.

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