事发之室：白宫回忆录 (2020)

《事发之室：白宫回忆录》（英语：The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir）由美国前总统国家安全事务助理约翰·博尔顿据其在白宫任职期间经历所写，2020年6月23日出版。

该书意图披露美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的对外政策。不过2020年6月16日，特朗普政府的美国司法部以博尔顿违反在白宫任职期间签署的保密协议为由，正式起诉博尔顿。6月20日，美国哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院法官罗伊斯·兰博斯（Royce Lamberth）裁定，此书可以发行。

作者观点

根据美国媒体的披露，博尔顿在书中提到，特朗普曾请求中国共产党总书记习近平助其连任、认同对穆斯林建造新疆再教育营、想连任超过两届（违反美国宪法第二十二修正案）、误认芬兰是俄罗斯的一部分、对香港反修例运动和六四天安门事件的本质漠不关心。并指台湾问题就像“消化不良”的问题，可能是在库尔德族后下一个被背弃的筹码等。

出版发行

据美国有线电视新闻网称，白宫于2020年1月23日发出正式声明，阻止博尔顿出版此书。博尔顿和发行商西蒙与舒斯特均未回应该请求。

The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir is a memoir by John Bolton, who served as National Security Advisor for U.S. president Donald Trump from April 2018 to September 2019. Bolton was reportedly paid an advance of $2 million by the publisher.

In late December 2019, one copy of the manuscript was provided to the White House for standard pre-publication review. In late January 2020, during the Senate impeachment trial, news of the book broke. Bolton's team was surprised that multiple copies of the manuscript had apparently been made and circulated. Leaked information about the book's contents increased the pressure for having Bolton testify in the Senate trial of Trump.

According to Bolton's original draft manuscript, William Barr and Bolton had a conversation about concerns Trump had appeared to have undue influence over two US Justice Department investigations of companies in China and Turkey; specifically regarding China's paramount leader Xi Jinping with regard to ZTE and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with regard to Halkbank. Bolton alleged that Trump, in an attempt to win re-election in agricultural states in the 2020 election, "[pleaded] with Xi to ensure he'd win. [Trump] stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome". (Bolton also wrote that he wanted to directly quote Trump, but could not due to "the government's pre-publication review process".) He also stated that Trump asked if Finland was a part of Russia, and was unaware the United Kingdom is a nuclear power. Bolton alleged Trump intervened in U.S. law enforcement and practiced "obstruction of justice as a way of life."

On June 16, 2020, the Trump administration sought to block release of the book by Simon & Schuster, contending that Bolton had breached nondisclosure agreements he signed as a condition of his employment and that the book endangered national security. U.S. federal judge Royce Lamberth denied this request on June 20. On June 21, pirated copies of the book appeared online. The book was released on June 23. Later that summer, the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into whether the book revealed classified information, empaneling a grand jury that subpoenaed the publisher's communications records.

The book is named after the song "The Room Where It Happens" from the 2015 stage musical Hamilton.

Contents

In the book, Bolton claims that:

United States

Trump has had a pattern of intervening against U.S. law enforcement and that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone "was plainly stunned at Trump's approach to law enforcement, or lack thereof."

Bolton wrote, that Trump "had to be repeatedly talked out of withdrawing from NATO".

China

Trump asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help him win re-election, offering to reduce U.S. tariffs in exchange "for some increases in Chinese farm-product purchases, to help with the crucial farm-state vote."

Trump voiced approval for the Chinese government's building of the Xinjiang internment camps for the Uyghur population.

Trump refused to publicly criticize China's human rights violations and refused to issue a statement marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, saying "that was 15 years ago."

Trump did not want to get involved with the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests saying "We have human-rights problems too".

Korea

South Korean president Moon Jae-in's ideas and positions regarding North Korea were "schizophrenic."

During Trump's 2018 Singapore summit with Kim Jong-un, secretary of State Mike Pompeo passed Bolton a note characterizing Trump as "so full of shit" and also characterized Trump's diplomacy with North Korea as having "zero probability of success." Without denying the specific allegations, Pompeo later denounced Bolton as a "traitor" and described the book as containing "a number of lies, fully-spun half-truths, and outright falsehoods."