Former national security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to illegally retaining classified information from his tenure in President Donald Trump’s White House, exposing himself to potential prison time for putting top secret information into private emails and chat messages and sharing them with members of his family.
During a hearing before U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, Bolton admitted to the allegations in an 18-count indictment brought against him last October, but under a plea deal with prosecutors he entered a guilty plea only to a single felony charge of willfully retaining classified information.
That charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, but under the terms of the deal, Bolton, 77, can withdraw his plea and go to trial if Chuang decides a sentence of more than five years is warranted. Bolton has also agreed to a fine of $2.25 million.
Prosecutor Tanner Kroeger declared that, during 17 months as Trump’s top national security aide in the first term, Bolton “abused his trust” by forwarding more than 1,000 pages of daily notes detailing his activities to his family members in apparent preparation for a book the hawkish foreign policy adviser later published.
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He should be in jail until he’s pushing daisies.
Five years max or else he chooses to go to trial?
The arrogance of that traitorous malignant fool!
Give him 20 years so he can attempt to defend himself!
His visceral irrational Trump HATE is the primary motivation and justification for these illegal acts. And right up to the end … Bolton was attacking Trump …
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/26/john-bolton-criticizes-trump-fbi-search/85833856007/
Yeah … Trump was just being mean to you. That’s all, huh?
Now do Joe Biden.
Bolton is asshole
Short and succinct. I like it.
“I don’t know what broke in the matrix, but watching John Bolton not only plead guilty to a felony but the specific felony he spent decades depicting as the most egregious — calling for life imprisonment or execution for it — is a level of karmic justice I didn’t know existed.”
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2070530651887927575
a couple of old jailbirds briefly talking about this…
“I don’t think John Bolton will handle prison well…”
https://x.com/Bannons_WarRoom/status/2070526939077492976
I must have missed the televised RAID of Bolton’s home at 5:30 am with automatic weapons drawn … or his perp walk into court. Can CNN please rebroadcast that for my viewing pleasure? What? They didn’t film the takedown?
Perhaps they’ll film his perp walk into (pound you in the ass) Federal Prison?
“I must have missed the televised RAID of Bolton’s home at 5:30 am with automatic weapons drawn ”
Part of me was really hoping they would do that, just to dare the Democrats (and their media lackeys) to protest it.