Posted on 10/18/2025 12:35:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Before you add John Bolton’s indictment to the growing pile of specious prosecutions of Donald Trump’s enemies, stop and read the Justice Department’s allegations that the former national security adviser systematically shared classified information with people who weren’t authorized to read it, all in the service of writing a tell-all book. The 18-count criminal indictment, filed yesterday, was compiled by experienced prosecutors, not political lackeys. It is detailed and precise, and relies on Bolton’s own words to implicate him.
You should question whether these charges would be brought if Trump weren’t president. Officials in Joe Biden’s administration passed on the chance to do so. And Bolton has plenty of basis to argue that he is being singled out because he is one of Trump’s most voluble and persistent critics. (He pleaded not guilty in court this morning.) But political animus doesn’t make the government’s charges baseless. This indictment does not belong in the same category as the ones against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Those cases are so weak that a U.S. attorney resigned rather than present them to a grand jury, and career prosecutors told his replacement that the government would probably lose at trial.
People I spoke with who are knowledgeable about the Bolton case—including what he allegedly did while serving in the White House in Trump’s first term, and internal deliberations over whether to charge him with mishandling classified information—say that indicting the former adviser was not an easy call. But the case, several said, is “righteous.” Reading the charges, I’m inclined to agree that if its facts are accurate, the government has a strong argument. I’ve covered a lot of cases of mishandling classified information and documents. Some people who have faced charges like those...
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That must have REALLY hurt Urinalist Shane to write this piece for MSNBC
Nonsense!
It has nothing to do with speciosity or revenge or anything personal or any of the other specious accusations leveled by the Corrupt Establishment and its mockingbirds.
This is what's going on:
Hercules' task of cleaning the Augean Stables was nothing compared to Trump's task.
The Stables were nothing compared to Washington.
Special prosecutions against the evil infecting this world.
There, fixed it.
The forces of the good and the light will bring people to justice, or will bring justice to their doorstep.
Hamas and the democRATS are so very much alike. Every day, they wake up filled with hate. Asking Hamas, or any democRAT, to lay down their arms, discard their hate, is akin to asking them to cease breathing.
Bolton, Comey...apparently the laws regarding safeguarding classified info and preventing unauthorized disclosure only applies to the peons.
“This indictment does not belong in the same category as the ones against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Those cases are so weak that a U.S. attorney resigned rather than present them to a grand jury, and career prosecutors told his replacement that the government would probably lose at trial.”
Horsesh*t. James’s signature is beneath a false statement. It may seem like jaywalking to this “journalist.”. But James is a member of the NY Bar. The standards are higher, not lower.
Bolton better worry about these kind of articles. He is getting thrown under bus
The questions for Bolton is, why did you still had possession of classified info from President Trump’s administration, which you left in 2019? And, why did you keep copies of those same documents in your personal AOL account so they could be hacked by Iran in 2021?
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