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Breaking: Trump’s Former National Security Adviser John Bolton Indicted

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein and Tim Miller take on the indictment of former National Security Adviser John Bolton by a federal grand jury in Maryland. Bolton is accused of sharing classified information with his wife and daughter over email — a move that raises questions about selective justice and the politicization of law enforcement.

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0:00.0

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0:24.1

and we have some breaking news. Breaking but not unexpected. This afternoon on Thursday,

0:30.0

John Bolton, Don Trump's former national security advisor, has been indicted by a federal grand jury

0:36.1

in Maryland. This is being reported by a number of different outlets.

0:40.0

It is for allegedly sharing what is being described as, quote, highly classified information with his wife and daughter over email.

0:49.0

This is according to sources on scene.

0:51.5

Now, Tim, before we get into-

0:54.0

All-Higene practices are now very important to the trauma administration again. You don't want to share anything, not over email, not over signal, not over- If you do it over signal, you're fine, obviously. A fun little antif we get into the serious part of it. It's apparently, it was in an AOL email account. Not surprised. Are you surprised? Bolton's still on the AOL email account. No, I'm not surprised at all. There's like, there's like 20 of them out there. They're all of a certain age and genre. Uh, so yeah, I'm not surprised as Jen Bolton. Tim and like David Axelrod. Look, I will just say this.

1:28.3

It used to be that a story like this would have caused five alarm fire.

1:32.2

It's a clear indictment of a presidential opponent, someone who Trump has targeted nonstop.

1:37.9

But this is now the third following James Comey and Latisha James.

1:41.5

And it feels almost mundane, honestly, which to me is

1:45.6

maybe the most shocking element of it, is that it's just part of our existence now.

1:49.6

In this first swath of people they've targeted, we've talked about this.

1:53.5

It does feel intentional.

1:55.8

They win after people who don't have huge constituencies.

1:59.0

Obviously, John Bolton and James Comey in particular don't have huge fan bases anywhere in the country. Is you? You and Bill? I'm right here. Even John Bolton, not really even my cup of tea, to be honest. So Jim Comey, though, I do. I do like. I am charmed by Jim Comey. Made a bad mistake in the fall of 2016, but they're for the grace of God.

2:19.5

Why do we need to relive that?

2:20.9

Let he has not made a mistake, throw the first stone.

2:25.0

So, you know, look, he targets these folks.

2:28.2

This stuff is obviously varying degrees of tickety tack.

2:31.5

I will see the details about what Bolton did.

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