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WASHINGTON, June 19 — President Donald Trump’s last-ditch bid to stop former top aide John Bolton’s book from publication goes to court today, even though much of the damning contents, painting the president as corrupt and incompetent, is already out. A federal court in the capital Washington...

File picture shows US President Donald Trump listening as his national security adviser John Bolton speaks during a presidential memorandum signing for the “Women’s Global Development and Prosperity” initiative in the Oval Office, February 7, 2019.

Bolton’s side will argue for freedom of speech, saying that the manuscript was in fact put through extensive examination by the White House, which simply doesn’t like the contents.The book, scheduled to go to bookstores on Tuesday, is Bolton’s portrait of Trump after seeing him up close for 17 months before he was ousted in September.According to Bolton, a lifelong Republican who stands firmly on the right of the party, Trump is not “fit for office.

Bolton also backs up the allegations at the centre of Trump’s impeachment last year that he pressured Ukraine to try and dig up dirt to weaken his Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden.

 

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