President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, has reportedly accepted a plea deal in his classified documents mishandling case. MS NOW reported Thursday, June 4, that the former advisor has agreed to plead guilty to retaining classified information in a private diary.
Bolton was indicted in October of last year on eight counts of transmission of national defense information and ten counts of retention of national defense information. When he was initially charged, Bolton claimed innocence and that he was being targeted because of his public opposition to President Donald Trump. According to the indictment, Bolton shared “more than a thousand pages of his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor – including information relating to the national defense which was classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI [sensitive compartmented information] level – with two unauthorized individuals.” Those two “unauthorized individuals” were allegedly his wife and daughter.
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