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Grand jury indicts former national security advisor John Bolton on 18 felony charges
Just the News ^ | October 16, 2025 4:43pm Updated: October 16, 2025 5:44pm | Steven Richards and Misty Severi

Posted on 10/16/2025 3:59:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Bolton’s home and office were raided earlier this year. Authorities found evidence the former Trump advisor retained secret documents from his time in the government.

A grand jury delivered an 18-count indictment on Thursday against former national security advisor and Trump critic John Bolton, who has been accused of unlawfully handling classified documents.

The grand jury indictment charged Bolton with 18 felonies, including 10 counts of illegal retention of national defense information. He was also charged with eight counts of transmitting national defense information.

“There is one tier of justice for all Americans,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. “Anyone who abuses a position of power and jeopardizes our national security will be held accountable. No one is above the law.”

The federal grand jury convened Wednesday to consider charges against the longtime national security figure two months after the FBI raided his Maryland home and found “highly sensitive national security” information. 

The search warrant for Bolton’s home, dated Aug. 22, showed there were "travel memo documents with pages labeled secret," as well as "confidential" documents regarding "U.S. Mission to the United Nations," "U.S. Government Strategic Communications Plan," and weapons of mass destruction. 

Laptops and other electronics were also seized in the search, Just the News previously reported

The FBI also searched Bolton’s Washington, D.C. office

The Justice Department has also accused Bolton of using a private email account to send classified information and record notes of his daily activities and assessments during his time as President Trump’s first-term national security advisor. 

Bolton was one of several national security advisors for Trump, but was eventually fired and became a critic of the current president.

The Justice Department sued Bolton in 2020 over his memoir, "The Room Where..."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 2020; 202508; 20250822; bolton; fbiraid; johnbolton; memoir; memoire; roomwhereithappened; unitednations

1 posted on 10/16/2025 3:59:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Karma

LOL
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John Bolton - This is a devastating indictment, It should be the end of Donald Trump’s political career
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2 posted on 10/16/2025 4:00:55 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s what he gets for cultivating that ridiculous mustache.


3 posted on 10/16/2025 4:01:31 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Johnny Bolton, should Pam Bondi cut you a big piece of this
Humble Pie?


4 posted on 10/16/2025 4:03:00 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

but but but I thought we would never get grand juries to side with our cases!!??? What could possibly be happening here!!!??

/s...


5 posted on 10/16/2025 4:07:20 PM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Should have indicted his stupid looking mustache too.


6 posted on 10/16/2025 4:12:24 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: lee martell

He might beat the rap, but he won’t beat the ride.


7 posted on 10/16/2025 4:20:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I am thinking the Democrats now are wishing they never opened that Pandora box. Going after President Trump once he was out of office was stupid, or perhaps just their own hubris thinking they could take him out and stay in power forever.


8 posted on 10/16/2025 4:27:13 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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I just can’t help thinking, Hillary Clinton did much worse than this, and yet she still walks free. Not saying he shouldn’t be prosecuted. I’m saying, why isn’t Hillary ever going to be prosecuted?


9 posted on 10/16/2025 4:49:59 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

we will be watching to see him squirm and weep when he’s sentenced to 10 pulse years in a federal prison.


10 posted on 10/16/2025 4:57:55 PM PDT by BFW
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here’s hoping his sphincter gives way from the realization of having to liquidate his worth to pay for his unsuccessful legal defense.

Welcome to the party, ‘pal’.

Now you know how WE have felt watching our people wrongfully being frogmarched to prison after being bankrupted by YOUR people.


11 posted on 10/16/2025 6:50:46 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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Yes he might beat the rap. But he won't beat the massive legal bills he'll be incurring. And that's justice enough for me. Break these sons of bitches. Break them all.

Good to see the "wheels of justice" beginning to grind. Hopefully that continues, and accelerates until all the leftist/globalist/RINO scum are ground into dust, stripped of their wealth and selling pencils on street corners.

12 posted on 10/17/2025 12:38:15 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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