I have an incredible clip to show you for so many reasons… This is President Trump in 2020 back with AG Bill Barr and it really shows how far we’ve come. President Trump is mostly the same but more trusting of people like Barr to handle things. Of course we all know how Barr panned out in hindsight, but what really jumps out to me is how weak and passive Bill Barr sounds in this clip. President Trump brilliantly lays out how John Bolton broke the law by writing and publishing this book filled with confidential information and then he asks Bill Barr to speak up and Barr seems so weak and limp. Barr says he’s “trying to get John Bolton to complete the vetting process for the book” but it’s clear that’s never going to happen. It’s clear Barr was not going to do anything. Hey Bill Barr, you were the head of the freaking FBI, how about you just order an immediate halt on the book?  Did that ever cross your mind?  Or were you happy about the undermining of Trump, is that what was really going on here? It all looks so different and so much clearer in hindsight. Oh how far we’ve come! Check this out: Listen to Donald Trump speak about John Bolton on June 15th, 2020: “He went out and wrote a book. That’s highly classified information…If he wrote a book and the book gets out, then he’s broken the law. I would think that he would have criminal problems…Maybe he’s not… pic.twitter.com/ID3ZEkNbMQ — Green Lives Matter (@Ultrafrog17) August 22, 2025 TRANSCRIPT: If he’s doing a book, I think it’s totally inappropriate that he does a book. I think, uh, a guy—I gave him a break. Uh, he couldn’t get Senate-confirmed. He was never Senate-confirmed the first time. I don’t think he’s supposed to even be calling himself an ambassador because he couldn’t get Senate-confirmed. He got in through a little trick, and, uh, he was there for a fairly short period of time. Uh, I put him here because he couldn’t get Senate-confirmed. This was a non-Senate-confirmed position, as you know. He stayed for a short while, and, uh, I felt that, uh, it was not appropriate that he stay any longer. I wasn’t impressed. And, uh, somebody said he went out and wrote a book. If he wrote a book, I can’t imagine that he can because that’s highly classified information. Even conversations with me, uh, they’re highly classified. I told that to the attorney general before. I will consider every conversation with me, as president, highly classified. So, that would mean that if he wrote a book, and if the book gets out, he’s broken the law, and I would think that he would have criminal problems. I hope so. Otherwise—I mean, they put a sailor in jail because he sent a photograph of his bed and an engine of an old submarine. And if this guy’s writing, uh, writing things about conversations or about anything—and maybe he’s not telling the truth. He’s been known not to tell the truth a lot. So, we’ll have to see what the book is all about. But, uh, you know, a lot of people are upset with him for writing a book. A lot of people are very angry with him for writing a book. But it’s up to the attorney general. Bill, do you have anything to say about it? Well, people who come to work in the government and have access to sensitive information generally sign an agreement that says that when they leave government, if they write something that has a, that, uh, draws on or might, uh, reflect some of the information they’ve had access to, they have to go through a clearance process before they can publish the book. And, uh, we don’t believe that Bolton, uh, went through that process, hasn’t completed the process, and therefore, uh, is in violation of that agreement. What is the DOJ doing to—And that’s criminal liability, by the way, you’re talking about. You’re not talking about like, he’s got to return $3 that he made on a book. That’s called criminal liability. That’s a big thing. You know, Hillary Clinton, she deleted 33,000 emails, and, uh, if we ever found out what those emails say, she would have had a liability. That’s what you have. You have liability. Could the attorney general tell us what the DOJ is doing in terms of the Bolton book? Well, there are a number of things, but the thing that is front and center right now is, uh, trying to get him to complete the process, go through the process, and make the necessary deletions of classified information. But, but the book has been published. It’s just not released yet. Gone and published. It’s being printed. Has it been released? Look, according to sources, it’s being printed. It hasn’t been released. So, are you going to court to try to stop? As I said, what we were doing was trying to get him to complete the clearance process that’s required. His lawyer says that he thought that they had completed. Were there changes after that first iteration? Well, you know, he, he hasn’t completed the process. He never completed the process. He knew that, and, uh—This is unprecedented, really, because I, I don’t know of any book that’s been published so quickly while, you know, the office holders are still in government and it’s about very current events and current leaders and current discussions and current policy issues, many of which are inherently classified. Have you read the book? I have never read it. I haven’t seen it. Mr. President—I haven’t seen it. But he knows, and he was advised not to write it. And he was advised very strongly not to write it until it’s cleared. And, uh, he couldn’t wait, and we’ll see what happens. But I think he’s got—Personally, I would imagine he has, like, like—Uh, when you do classified, that to me is a very strong criminal problem. And he knows he’s got classified information. Any conversation with me is classified. Then it becomes even worse if he lies about the conversation, which I understand he might have in some cases. So, we’ll see what happens. Uh, they’re in court, or they’ll soon be in court. But he understands he did not complete a process or anywhere near complete a process.