John Bolton's controversial book hits No. 1 on USA TODAY best-sellers list. Americans want a glimpse into the room where "it" happened, if sales of John Bolton's book are any indication. The memoir by the president's former national security adviser sold more than 780,000 copies in its first week and landed the top spot on USA TODAY's Best-Selling books list. The full list will be published Thursday. “John Bolton’s The Room Where It Happened has been the subject of intense interest since its announcement, and it is selling in extraordinary numbers across all editions and across the entire country," says Jonathan Karp, CEO and publisher of  Simon & Schuster. "The public clearly is fascinated in what Bolton has to say in this election year, and we expect the curiosity to continue.” The publisher has ordered an 11th printing of the book. When that is complete, it will bring the number of hardcover copies in print to a million. Trump's Justice Department went to court June 16 to block publication of the memoir stating the manu contained classified information and that Bolton was in breach of contract. "The United States seeks an order requiring Defendant to abide by his contractual and fiduciary duties to complete the pre-publication review process and not disclose classified information without written authorization, thereby protecting the national security of the United States," according to the filing. A federal judge later ruled that with numerous copies already distributed, it would be futile to stop it. “With hundreds of thousands of copies around the globe – many in newsrooms – the damage is done," wrote Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia. "There is no restoring the status quo.” The judge rebuked Bolton for not following the government's pre-publication clearance protocols. “Bolton has gambled with the national security of the United States,” the judge wrote. “He has exposed his country to harm and himself to civil (and potentially criminal) liability. But these facts do not control the motion before the court. The government has failed to establish that an injunction will prevent irreparable harm.” President Donald Trump quickly weighed in on Twitter, calling the ruling a "big court win" against Bolton who, he said, will have a "really big price to pay." "He likes dropping bombs on people, and killing them," the president wrote. "Now he will have bombs dropped on him!" While Bolton is not the only former Trump official to depict the president in a negative light, he was the highest-ranking. In an exclusive print interview with USA TODAY's Susan Page, Bolton admitted if he had been a senator during the president's impeachment trial, he would have voted to convict. "I think I probably would have" voted to convict, Bolton said, "although, honestly, we still don't know everything there is to know about Ukraine. A lot of conduct can be reprehensible without being impeachable."

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