{"id":7511,"date":"2026-06-26T16:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/ex-trump-adviser-bolton-pleads-guilty-in-classified-documents-case\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:35:50","slug":"ex-trump-adviser-bolton-pleads-guilty-in-classified-documents-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/ex-trump-adviser-bolton-pleads-guilty-in-classified-documents-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Trump adviser Bolton pleads guilty in classified documents case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hawkish national security figure has emerged as critic of President Trump after serving during his first term in office.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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John Bolton, \u2060a prominent critic \u2060of US President Donald Trump \u200cwho once served as his national security adviser, \u2060has pleaded guilty to unlawfully \u2060retaining classified \u2060information \u2060during a federal court hearing \u200cin Maryland.<\/p>\n

Bolton pleaded guilty on Friday in a case related to the sharing of documents with two relatives<\/a> for possible use in a \u2060book he was writing, including notes \u2060on intelligence briefings and meetings with senior government officials and foreign leaders. He pleaded not guilty to 18 criminal charges last \u2060year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry for it,\u201d Bolton told US District Judge Theodore D Chuang during the hearing.<\/p>\n

Bolton<\/a>, who served as national security adviser during Trump\u2019s first term, is one of several noteworthy political opponents who have faced prosecution by Trump\u2019s Department of Justice, erasing longstanding norms that had separated law enforcement efforts from partisan considerations.<\/p>\n

However, unlike other cases brought against Trump critics, the Bolton investigation began before Trump returned \u200cto \u200coffice in 2025 and had the backing of career federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n

The news service Reuters had previously reported that, as part of an agreement<\/a> with federal prosecutors, Bolton would plead guilty in exchange for a sentence ranging from no prison time to a maximum of five years in prison. The hawkish national security figure is scheduled to be sentenced in October.<\/p>\n

Bolton also reportedly agreed to pay a $2.25m fine and committed to 100 hours of community service. He was accused of sharing sensitive information with two relatives, including notes from intelligence briefings and meetings with foreign leaders, for possible use in a memoir chronicling his experiences in the White House during Trump\u2019s first term in office.<\/p>\n

The book, titled, The Room Where It Happened, was critical of Trump, whom Bolton said was unfit to serve as president. Trump has since slammed Bolton as a \u201ccrazy\u201d individual who was obsessed with war and would have led the country into \u201cWorld War Six\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hawkish national security figure has emerged as critic of President Trump after serving during his first term in office. John Bolton, \u2060a prominent critic \u2060of US President Donald Trump \u200cwho once served as his national security adviser, \u2060has pleaded guilty to unlawfully \u2060retaining classified \u2060information \u2060during a federal court hearing \u200cin Maryland. Bolton pleaded guilty … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}