Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton indicted

[demmiblue]

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland, according to two sources.

Bolton, who has been under investigation for alleged unlawful handling of classified information, becomes the third high-profile Trump political enemy to be indicted in less than a month.

He allegedly shared highly classified information with his wife and daughter over email, sources told CNN.

Sources previously told CNN that part of the Justice Department’s investigation centers around notes he was making to himself in an AOL email account — at times writing summaries of his activities like diary entries — when he was working for Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/john-bolton-grand-jury-maryland?cid=ios_app

[global1]

1. Question?: Bolton Was Intimately Involved With The Tr**p Administration - Kinda High Placed.....

He had to be on the inter-administration information distribution and have intimate knowledge and perhaps even incriminating information about how that administration function during his tenure with it.

He even had to have intimate conversations with Tr**p himself. The kind of conversations where Tr**p gave Bolton his marching orders and his feelings about how he wants Bolton to handle things - which I'm sure weren't always on the up and up.

Wouldn't you think that Bolton can use that information against Tr**p?

I got to think that Bolton has inside info - because he was privy to the plotting that went on in the WH - that can be very damaging an used against Tr**p.

I'm curious - and that's why I put this post together - what do others here on DU feel about what I've posed in this post?

[clevergrrrl]

2. Bolton has been in D.C. since the 1970s

and he's always been a Beltway insider. I don't know how he couldn't pull himself out of this. He'll probably arrange some kind of backroom payoff for Trump so Trump calls off the dogs.