Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information under a deal with the Justice Department that could allow him to avoid prison time, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.
The deal would resolve a criminal case filed in October that charged Bolton with 18 counts of either retaining or disseminating classified information, including diary-like notes from his time in government that officials say he shared with his family members as he was preparing a memoir about his time in office.
Under the agreement, Bolton would also face a $2.25 million fine, said the person, who insisted on anonymity to discuss a deal that had not been made public. Any prison sentence would be capped at five years, but the agreement could also allow for him to avoid time behind bars. The punishment will ultimately be up to a judge.
Ever since Trump fired John Bolton as his National Security Advisor during his 1st trem back in 2019, the renowned neocon has been on a bitter tear, going on any cable news show that'll have him to diss Trump's foreign policy decisions and even going so far as to smear Trump as a criminal for retaining classified documents. But today Bolton pleads guilty to doing excatly what he accused Trump of, you can't make this stuff up.
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