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In the new memoir, The Room Where It Happened, alleges that asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win his by .

Such increases would have been intended to help Trump perform more favorably in farming states.

The memoir is set for release on June 23, and is already a No 1 bestseller on Amazon.

On Wednesday, damning excerpts were published by , The and The

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In addition to his claims about Trump's communications with , Bolton writes that the president pressured for dirt on Democratic rival , who in early June.

He also describes Trump being mocked by including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and multiple instances of Trump blatantly encouraging and expressing a desire

"The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn't accept," Bolton wrote.

National security lawyer Bradley Moss tweeted that the majority of the DOJ motion was irrelevant, since Bolton himself no longer has control of the book.

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On Tuesday, the day before the emergency restraining order application was filed, the DOJ had filed a lawsuit claiming that the publication of the classified material contained in the memoir would violate Bolton's non-disclosure agreement with the .

Last night , telling the Wall Street Journal: "He is a liar ... everybody in the White House hated John Bolton.”

He also called Bolton a "a washed-up guy" who broke the law" in a separate interview with Fox.