"An 18-count federal grand jury indictment accuses Bolton of illegally transmitting and retaining classified documents - allegations that appear to cover a period in which Bolton was collecting material for a damning tell-all book about his time in the first Trump administration. The veteran diplomat - who also served as ambassador to the United Nations during the administration of President George W. Bush - said in a searing statement Thursday night that he has "devoted my life to America's foreign policy and national security.""
""I would never compromise those goals. I tried to do that during my tenure in the first Trump Administration but resigned when it became impossible to do so," he said. He said the president launched a "retribution campaign" against him, which escalated with the publication of Bolton's book The Room Where It Happened, and he is now "the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he deems to be his enemies with charges that were declined before or distort the facts,""
"Bolton and his attorney Abbe Lowell argue that the contents of the book were cleared for publication by government officials, and over "four years of the prior administration, after these reviews, no charges were ever filed." Then came Trump 2 who embodies what Joseph Stalin's head of secret police once said, 'You show me the man, and I'll show you the crime,' Bolton wrote on Thursday."
An 18-count federal grand jury indictment accuses John Bolton of illegally transmitting and retaining classified documents during a period when he collected material for a tell-all book about the first Trump administration. Bolton, a veteran diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said he devoted his life to foreign policy and national security and resigned from the Trump administration when he could not achieve those goals. Bolton contends the book's contents were cleared by officials and that no charges were filed during the prior administration. He alleges the president launched a retribution campaign and is weaponizing the Justice Department to intimidate opponents, pledging to fight the charges and defend his conduct.
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