{"id":229975,"date":"2025-10-16T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229975\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:46:08","slug":"ex-trump-aide-john-bolton-charged-amid-crackdown-on-us-presidents-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/229975\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Trump aide John Bolton charged, amid crackdown on US president\u2019s critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">John Bolton, Donald Trump\u2019s former national security adviser, was indicted on Thursday on charges of retaining and transmitting national defence information, marking the third time in recent weeks the US Justice Department has secured criminal charges against one of the Republican president\u2019s critics.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bolton\u2019s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. His lawyer had previously denied that Bolton engaged in wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The indictment, according to court records, comes after court documents made public last month revealed that Bolton was under federal investigation for potential mishandling of classified information.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump, who campaigned for the presidency on a vow of retribution after facing a slew of legal woes once his first term in the White House ended in 2021, has dispensed with decades-long norms designed to insulate federal law enforcement from political pressures.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In recent months, he has actively pushed Attorney General Pam Bondi\u2019s Justice Department to bring charges against his perceived adversaries, even driving out a prosecutor he deemed to be moving too slowly in doing so.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US Attorney General Pam Bondi listens while US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a7b5308d-26b7-4a29-85a4-1168370aa9ea_c7092b25.jpg\" title=\"US Attorney General Pam Bondi listens while US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters\"\/>US Attorney General Pam Bondi listens while US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bolton served as US ambassador to the United Nations as well as White House national security adviser during Trump\u2019s first term before emerging as one of the president\u2019s most vocal critics. He described Trump as unfit to be president in a memoir he released last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Bolton, Donald Trump\u2019s former national security adviser, was indicted on Thursday on charges of retaining and transmitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64443,23,128383,12,128385,2765,94487,11809,16675,49710,8640,128384,3,25244,21,19,22,20,25,128386,128387,24,3123],"class_list":["post-229975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-adam-schiff","tag-america","tag-attorney-general-pam-bondi","tag-donald-trump","tag-espionage-act","tag-fbi","tag-james-comey","tag-john-bolton","tag-justice-department","tag-letitia-james","tag-maryland","tag-national-security-division","tag-news","tag-republican","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-attorneys-office","tag-us-mission-to-the-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}