Trump unloads on lunatic John Bolton after ex-aide pleads guilty in classified docs case
President Trump on Friday mocked former National Security Advisor John Bolton after his one-time aide admitted to mishandling a classified national defense document.Bolton pleaded guilty hours earlier during a hearing in US District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, to one count of unauthorized possession of a national defense document.His guilty plea was part of a plea agreement that will see prosecutors dismiss the remaining 17 counts at sentencing. The guilty plea prompted an immediate response from Trump, who has repeatedly clashed with Bolton over foreign policy and the former advisor’s highly critical memoir ever since their very public falling out in 2019.“John Bolton, a very dumb, unbalanced, and unskilled former representative of the United States of America, just pleads guilty!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post late Friday.“He is a terrible person, a lunatic who only wanted to start trouble and wars, and who was a needless pusher of death and destruction wherever he went.Hopefully, he will be dealt with harshly!”Bolton, 77, is scheduled to be sentenced Oct.
28 and, under his plea agreement, faces a $2.25 million fine, up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and up to 100 hours of community service.And he will lose his federal pension.
His defense attorneys have said they hope Bolton will avoid jail time.According to prosecutors, Bolton unlawfully kept classified national defense information after leaving government service, including documents classified as top secret.Authorities alleged he kept more than 1,000 pages of notes detailing his day-to-day activities as national security advisor and shared portions of that material with two family members using a personal email account.Federal prosecutors said the documents included highly sensitive intelligence involving covert action programs, human intelligence sources and methods and foreign military threats.FBI Director Kash Patel said the investigation demonstrated...