Even the MSM is starting to admit that Bolton may really be guilty
The evidence is starting to be harder to deny. At least, it’s become more clear that the re-opening of the investigation of Bolton is justified:
The New York Times wisely expanded its narrative from it not being clear “what culpability Mr. Bolton might have,” to a fairly definitive statement that a hostile intelligence service intercepted Bolton’s emails, and those emails contained classified information. For good measure, The New York Times credited Joe Biden for investigating malfeasance that occurred during Trump’s first term.
And:
John Bolton is in deep trouble, and everyone who white-knighted for Bolton after defending the insane Mar-a-Lago raid is going to look especially craven and corrupt as more details emerge. pic.twitter.com/0O8qt2btXN
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 27, 2025
How do his alleged crimes compare to Hillary’s? Which is not to say he shouldn’t be prosecuted, just to point out the disparate treatment.
A few more “nuances” here (link corrected):
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/08/28/new-details-about-the-federal-raid-on-john-bolton-n2662452
I believe they could throw him under the bus hoping it goes no further down the Coup D’etat line.
Re: Hillary. I don’t know if our people intercepted foreign adversary emails of hers showing classified information, which is the allegation against Bolton, according to the reports. The raids were to determine if those were actually Bolton emails.
There is one Gertrude R. Stowe who is spamming the comments of every post. She should be blocked.
Bolton has long been a member of the Deep State/Military-Industrial complex but has never been a leftist. The former will expect him to keep his mouth shut and take his ‘medicine’ and the latter could care less. Might Bolton turn states’ witness to obtain a reduced sentence? What skeleton’s in the Deep States’ closet might he know of? Were I Kash Patel, I’d want to know.
Yer not going to believe this…so ye’ probably shouldn’t even bother…the only problem being that it’s entirely true…all of it…in all its perverse, twisted, convoluted, slick, sick Obaman
gloryawfulness…sigh…[shakes head and shudders slightly, then uncontrollably]…Yep. Matt Taibbi with another absolute humdinger…
“Exclusive: For Some, Russiagate Never Ended;
“Longtime Trump adviser Michael Caputo’s life was upended by Russiagate. Under Biden, he and others were spied on a second time. On the scandal’s unreported second chapter”—
https://www.racket.news/p/exclusive-for-some-russiagate-never
H/T Powerline blog.
(Includes everything you were afraid to ask…)
Kate, were Hillary’s emails ever thoroughly investigated? She did her best to destroy evidence with Bleachbit and hammers, which in itself is criminal.
Agreed, Jimmy. I don’t know about a statute of limitations for her, and how much evidence is left. Perhaps Kash will find out.
I once had high hope for John Bolton. Power corrupts they say, or hubris? Feet of clay leave muddy tracks.
It’s funny that many of the people who cheered the loudest over the relentless legal persecution of Trump for years are themselves actually either currupt or compromised… or both. It’s not at all surprising that lowlifes who have no respect for norms and abuse their positions of power by leaking sensitive information to the media are not themselves particularly careful regarding their own security.
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I never really liked Bolton, even when he was on our side. He was good with respect to specific issues (mostly foreign policy related) but seemed stuck in one gear. John McCain was similar.
I have suspected for some time that Bolton’s problem is he doesn’t think he’s been properly rewarded for his knowledge or experience. He’s had some important roles, but I think he still feels under appreciated. It would indeed be ironic if he were to be undone by such a rookie mistake as transmitting classified documents through unclassified channels, and especially if they were intercepted by a foreign power and then re-intercepted by our own NSA.
I think there’s evidence Hillary was hacked.
One of the emails on her server appeared to be a copy of an above top secret document from an intel agency that named some of our spies in Afghanistan. It wasn’t a State document and appears to have been copied without classification markings into an email on her server. These documents are born classified and are marked up from the beginning.
Her claim that they were only classified later was a lie. The lawyer lie as I call it, since if you are only specifically referring to the email itself, well it wasn’t specifically classified. But the info in it was, and was illegally copied from a properly marked document.
Don: That is my understanding too. A very sorry situation. And people who do it know they are violating the law, but believe they are above the law. Hillary and Bolton both fall into this category.
I was surprised he was selected by Trump frankly. He seemed like too much of a war hawk and at odds with Trump’s peace agenda.
F,
What Hillary did was vastly worse than what Bolton did, at least from what I know now. She set up her own server with the intent of doing it going in. She didn’t take the training to improve her chances at trial if caught. She refused to turn over data that belonged to the taxpayer. So far Bolton’s crimes seem much more limited. Still it’s a 10 year federal crime.
@ F > “And people who do it know they are violating the law, but believe they are above the law.”
There seem to me to be many former government “servants” who publish sensitive information at some point (usually after retirement) to get their side of the story out, and maybe make a few bucks.
The Agencies are supposed to okay everything before publication, but if they do have to edit something out that means the author had that information available to put in the draft.
I suspect most of them have classified files (or copies) at home, everybody knows it, and so long as the public doesn’t see it nobody rocks the boat.
To quote a comment on an earlier thread:
Sennacherib on August 26, 2025 at 2:02 pm said:
The Left doesn’t consider itself above the law rather it considers itself ”the law”, the difference is important!
Don, as I suggested in another thread I think Trump selected Bolton *because* of his belligerent reputation. Despite Trump’s opposition to “forever wars” and needless troop deployments he wanted to send a message that he would not hesitate to use force if he thought it necessary, as Soleimani found out in his last moment. AKA “Jacksonian” foreign policy.
It would not be surprising if Trump figured from the beginning they would clash sooner or later, but that doesn’t deter the fearless Orange Man.