{"id":71958,"date":"2026-06-04T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/trump-nemesis-john-bolton-to-admit-he-mishandled-classified-secrets-in-stunning-reversal\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:11:00","slug":"trump-nemesis-john-bolton-to-admit-he-mishandled-classified-secrets-in-stunning-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/trump-nemesis-john-bolton-to-admit-he-mishandled-classified-secrets-in-stunning-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump nemesis John Bolton to ADMIT he mishandled classified secrets in stunning reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article-text\">\n<ul>\n<li class><strong>Politics is fast. We&#8217;re faster. Sign up to the DC Insider newsletter for a front-row seat to Washington&#8230; and unlock 3 FREE months of DailyMail+ <a class rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/link.news.dailymail.co.uk\/join\/dc-insider-sign-up?utm_source=dailymail.co.uk&#038;utm_medium=organic_editorial&#038;utm_campaign=conversion_newsletter&#038;utm_term=dcinsider_bullets&#038;utm_budgetpot=organic\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>See more Daily Mail on Google &#8211; <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=dailymail.com\">save us as a Preferred Source<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/profile-962\/jon-michael-raasch.html\">JON MICHAEL RAASCH, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?screen_name=JMRaasch&#038;tw_p=followbutton\"><span><\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><span> <span>Published:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2026-06-04T15:31:09+0100\"> 10:31 EDT, 4 June 2026 <\/time> <\/span> | <span> <span>Updated:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2026-06-04T18:11:22+0100\"> 13:11 EDT, 4 June 2026 <\/time> <\/span> <\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/donald_trump\/index.html\" id=\"mol-4876ab80-6021-11f1-adbe-874da80866b2\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s former national security advisor turned nemesis, John Bolton, is expected to plead guilty to mishandling classified documents.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, 77, intends to plead guilty to a single count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents, sources told <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/cnn\/index.html\" id=\"mol-487ee8e0-6021-11f1-adbe-874da80866b2\">CNN<\/a>.Bolton was indicted last year on 18 counts related to mishandling classified material.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton has agreed to pay a $2 million fine as part of the deal, according to one of the sources.<\/p>\n<p>One count of illegally retaining documents can land him in prison for up to five years.<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes after Bolton was charged with allegedly keeping classified material at his Bethesda, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/maryland\/index.html\" id=\"mol-83a45470-6024-11f1-adbe-874da80866b2\">Maryland<\/a>, home.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege he withheld &#8216;more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He used his personal email account to share the sensitive materials with two unauthorized individuals. According to CNN, those individuals were his wife and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton was initially charged with 18 counts: eight counts for transmission of national defense information and 10 for retention of national defense information.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>John Bolton, 77, served as national security advisor during Trump&#8217;s first term from 2018 to 2019. Trump announced Bolton&#8217;s firing on social media at the time<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Former National Security Advisor John Bolton listens as Trump talks in the Oval Office in July 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The original 18-count indictment alleged that Bolton used his personal email and a messaging app to circulate over 1,000 pages of notes, including sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to appear for a hearing on June 26, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton, who worked for Trump during his first term from 2018 to 2019, was unceremoniously fired via social media after having policy disputes over Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year after his firing, Bolton released a tell-all book about his time in Trump&#8217;s administration, titled &#8216;The Room Where It Happened.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The memoir was highly critical of the President, and Trump slammed Bolton as a &#8216;washed up creepster&#8217; around the time it was published in June, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Washed up creepster John Bolton is a lowlife who should be in jail, money seized, for disseminating, for profit, highly classified information,&#8217; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The President also gave multiple interviews at the time, in which he doubled down on calls to imprison Bolton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He released massive amounts of classified, and confidential, but classified information. That&#8217;s illegal and you go to jail for that,&#8217; Trump said during a 2020 Fox News interview.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Less than a year after his firing, Bolton released a tell-all book about his time in Trump&#8217;s administration, titled &#8216;The Room Where It Happened.&#8217; It was very critical of the President<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Department of Justice under Trump&#8217;s first term opened criminal and civil probes into Bolton over the book in 2020, but the inquiries were halted within a year.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ under Joe Biden later opened a new inquiry into Bolton the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton&#8217;s reported plea deal marks a victory for the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to prosecute its political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also pursued cases against his first-term FBI Director James Comey for alleged threats and lying to Congress; New York Attorney General Letitia James, who sued the President; and Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, who led an impeachment inquiry against Trump. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                                                                                                                                  <ad-slot position=\"smart_feed\"><\/ad-slot>                                                                <ad-slot position=\"after_article\"><\/ad-slot>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics is fast. 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