前国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿在即将出版的白宫回忆录中抨击唐纳德·特朗普总统，称“获得连任是唯一重要的事情。”
该书的出版商西蒙与舒斯特(Simon & Schuster)表示:“在我的任期内，我很难确定特朗普做出的任何重大决定，这些决定都不是由连任计算驱动的。”。
2019年4月30日，在DC首都华盛顿，白宫国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿在白宫西翼外对记者说。
出版商称，波顿备受期待的书《发生的房间》将读者带入了“白宫的混乱”，并揭示了“对主要角色的评估、总统前后矛盾、漫不经心的决策过程，以及他与盟友和敌人的交易。”
波顿在新闻稿中写道:“如果你不喜欢混乱、不确定性和风险——同时总是被信息、要做的决定和大量的工作弄得不知所措——并且被无法描述的国际和国内的个性和自我冲突搞活，那就试试别的办法。”。
这位去年9月被赶出白宫的前高级安全助理将提出这样一个理由，即众议院民主党人的弹劾调查“狭隘地聚焦”于特朗普向乌克兰施压，要求获得关于前副总统乔·拜登的信息。
新闻稿称:“事实上，他辩称，当特朗普的乌克兰式违规行为存在于他的整个外交政策中时，众议院通过将他们的起诉狭隘地聚焦于乌克兰，犯下了弹劾渎职行为——而博尔顿恰恰记录了这些违规行为，以及他和其他政府官员试图就这些违规行为发出警告的行为。”。
博尔顿拒绝在众议院的弹劾调查中作证，并在2月份为这一决定进行辩护，声称他的证词是无足轻重的。
“人们可以争论我应该说什么和我应该做什么，”博尔顿在范德比尔特大学说。“我在这里跟你赌一美元，现在我的证词对最终结果没有任何影响。”
“我晚上睡觉是因为我遵循了我的良心，”他继续说道。
波顿的书将于6月23日发行。
John Bolton's book recounts chaos, turmoil in Trump White House
Former national security adviser John Bolton blasts President Donald Trump in his forthcoming White House memoir claiming that "getting reelected was the only thing that mattered."
"I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” Bolton writes according to the book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster.
White House National Security Advisor John Bolton talks to reporters outside of the White House West Wing April 30, 2019 in Washington, DC.
The publishers said Bolton's highly anticipated book, “The Room Where It Happened,” takes readers inside the “chaos in the White House” and reveals “assessments of major players, the president’s inconsistent, scattershot decision-making process, and his dealings with allies and enemies alike.”
"If you don’t like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk—all the while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and sheer amount of work—and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond description, try something else,” Bolton writes according to the news release.
The former top security aide, who was pushed out of the White House last September, will make the case that the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry was "narrowly focused" on Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine for information on former vice president Joe Biden.
"In fact, he argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump’s Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy—and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the Administration to raise alarms about them," the news release said.
Bolton declined to testify in the House’s impeachment probe and in February defended that decision claiming his testimony would have been insignificant.
"People can argue about what I should have said and what I should have done," Bolton said at Vanderbilt University. "I will bet you a dollar right here and now my testimony would have made no difference to the ultimate outcome."
"I sleep at night because I have followed my conscience," he continued.
Bolton's book is set to be released on June 23.
