NPR's "The World" Reviews Bolton's Damning New Book

Credit: Leah Millis/Reuters The World, NPR Bolton's book accuses Trump of widespread misdeeds In a new book, former White House national security adviser John Bolton accuses US President Donald Trump of sweeping misdeeds in order to pursue reelection, including explicitly seeking Chinese President Xi Jinping's help. Bolton, a longtime foreign policy hawk, also writes that Trump expressed a willingness to halt criminal investigations to favor dictators he liked. Bolton’s book offers a firsthand account confirming many of the allegations that led to Trump’s impeachment — directly linking the suspension of $391 million in security aid for Ukraine and demands that Ukraine publicly announce investigations into former Vice President Joseph Biden. News of the upcoming release of the book, “The Room Where It Happened,” coincides with retaliatory threats from China over legislation Trump signed Wednesday calling for sanctions over the repression of China's Uighurs. In stark contrast, Bolton’s book alleges that the president earlier had approved of the mass detention of Uighurs. What The World is following In a 5-4 decision issued this morning, the US Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration's attempt to cancel Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The majority opinion, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, called the Department of Homeland Security's attempt to end the program "arbitrary and capricious." The ruling allows DACA to stay in place for now, ending some of the uncertainty faced by 650,000 undocumented immigrant beneficiaries who were brought to the US as children.