John Bolton Pleading Guilty
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John Bolton is reportedly going to plead guilty in his classified documents case.
Bolton was indicted in 2025 on 18 counts.
Former national security adviser John Bolton will plead guilty to unlawfully retaining classified information while working in President Trump’s first administration, CNN reported Thursday.
Bolton, 77, was indicted in October 2025 on 18 counts of illegally hoarding or sending sensitive information.
Reps for Bolton and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Bolton faces up to 60 months in jail and a fine of over $2 million as part of the plea deal.
He is scheduled to appear in court on June 26th.
Bolton, who is a strong critic of Trump, faces a sentence of up to 60 months in jail and a fine of $2.25 million as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors on the single count, according to MS NOW.
The only people who were exposed to the secret information were his wife and daughter, according to a source cited by the outlet.
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Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security advisor from April 2018 through September 2019, is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., on June 26.
Prosecutors alleged that Bolton shared over 1,000 pages of information about his activities in the Trump administration with his relatives.
Some of those pages reportedly contained classified information.
He is also accused of using personal email accounts to send classified documents to family members.
Prosecutors claimed that from April 2018 to August 2025, Bolton shared with two unidentified relatives more than 1,000 pages of information about his daily activities while working in the White House for Mr. Trump, some of which contained classified information. The indictment also alleged that Bolton kept documents, writings and notes related to the national defense, including information that was classified, in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland.
The Justice Department alleged in court papers that Bolton’s “diary-like” notes were typed transcriptions of handwritten notes that were then sent to his two relatives through a commercial, non-governmental messaging app. Prosecutors said Bolton also used personal email accounts, like those from AOL and Google, to email classified information to the family members.
The indictment claims that the entries included sensitive information up to the top secret and sensitive compartmented information level, a designation that means it was derived from sensitive intelligence sources. Prosecutors said Bolton’s notes contained “detailed information” that he learned from meetings with high-ranking government officials, intelligence briefings and discussions with foreign leaders and foreign intelligence and military organizations.
Bolton was also accused of printing out and storing the notes at his house, and keeping digital copies on personal devices. The FBI searched Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington, D.C., office last August, and seized electronic files, according to court documents.
