Trump’s law firm, the Justice Department, is suing to prevent publication of John Bolton’s new book. The report reads: “… the Trump administration went to court to try to claw back Bolton’s earnings for the book and to potentially stop the book’s publication, arguing in a lawsuit that Bolton had breached non-disclosure agreements and was risking national security by exposing classified information.”

So John Bolton will have to join Stormy Daniels and all the others whom Trump has menaced with non-disclosure agreements. Trump has used non-disclosure agreements all his life to suppress evidence of his filthy behavior. I hope Bolton will tell Trump, and Barr, and their minions to go to hell.

As to the risk to national security … no, it’s the risk toTrump’ s security that this is all about. In the Trump system, almost any truth is a threat to security, so we can expect little or no truth from Trump and Barr. I think that Bolton is far more reliable. Bolton knows and can find out what might be a risk to national security. Thus he and we needn’t let ourselves be taken in by what Trump & Co. choose to call national security. In fact, Trump knows very little about national security, but to pretend that he does he will motor-mouth away, telling lies and running the risk of revealing what secrets he happens to remember.