Former Trump Adviser John Bolton Criminally Indicted
Above: John Bolton at Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 29, 2025. Image copyright: Jason Bergman/Bloomberg/Getty Images
The Spin
Pro-Trump narrative
Bolton's indictment exposes a grave betrayal. He illegally transmitted over 1,000 pages of top-secret documents via personal email to unauthorized relatives, risking U.S. intelligence on adversaries like Iran. This hawkish insider's recklessness, tied to his anti-Trump book, endangers lives. Accountability prevails — no one is above the law.
Anti-Trump narrative
Bolton's sham indictment reeks of Trump-era vengeance. The third Trump foe charged in weeks — after James Comey and Lisa James — this Espionage Act farce revives a 2022 probe dropped under Biden. Bolton, a whistleblower on Trump's abuses, faces inflated claims of "diary" sharing amid an Iranian hack. It's authoritarian payback, not justice, silencing dissent.
