{"id":684676,"date":"2026-06-04T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684676\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:06:08","slug":"john-bolton-expected-to-plead-guilty-in-classified-documents-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684676\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton expected to plead guilty in classified-documents case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"M5LCV77L4ZH6JE2WSPUM5UK2SU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">John Bolton, a former national security adviser turned outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, is expected to plead guilty in a case involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2025\/10\/16\/bolton-indicted-trump-classified-documents\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2025\/10\/16\/bolton-indicted-trump-classified-documents\/\">his alleged mishandling<\/a> of classified materials.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KPNSFABEKVE2HFNVZJQBNLISBE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Bolton pleaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/17\/bolton-classified-documents-indictment-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/10\/17\/bolton-classified-documents-indictment-trump\/\">not guilty<\/a> in the case in October. A change-of-plea hearing is scheduled for June 26 before U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in Maryland. The spokesperson declined to comment further. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Bolton, a former national security adviser turned outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, is expected to plead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-684676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684676","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=684676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}