Trump desperate to block Bolton's book release. DOJ seeks emergency restraining order blocking Bolton book release

The Justice Department asked a judge on Wednesday to temporarily block the release of former national security adviser John Bolton's upcoming memoir.

Court documents filed Wednesday called for a judge to halt the publication of Bolton's book, called "The Room Where It Happened." A request for comment was not immediately returned.

The motion comes the same day multiple news outlets published details of the book, including the explosive claim that President Trump asked China's leader, Xi Jinping, for assistance in getting reelected and defeating former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee.

At issue is information in the book the Trump administration has insisted is classified but that Bolton is not.

“The lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice to block John Bolton from publishing his book, THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED, is nothing more than the latest in a long running series of efforts by the Administration to quash publication of a book it deems unflattering to the President,” Simon & Schuster said in a statement.

“Ambassador Bolton has worked in full cooperation with the NSC in its pre-publication review to address its concerns and Simon & Schuster fully supports his First Amendment right to tell the story of his time in the White House to the American public," the company continued.

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