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Former Trump national<\/span> security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty on Friday to keeping security information from his work in his personal records\u2014an act less egregious than what Donald Trump and Joe Biden previously got away with unscathed.<\/p>

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A Florida judge dismissed Trump\u2019s case in 2024 for allegedly retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, saying that special counsel Jack Smith, who filed the charges against Trump, was illegally appointed by the Justice Department\u2014rather than the President and confirmed by the Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And Biden was not charged for purportedly keeping documents in a former D.C. office and his personal residence in Delaware. One reason given was that Biden would likely present himself before a jury \u201cas a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,\u201d which would make it difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him for \u201ca serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, as of Friday, Bolton has pled guilty to one count of unauthorized retention of national defense information out of a total of 18 official charges. Prosecutors said that Bolton faces a prison sentence of up to five years and agreed to pay $2.25 million in fines. His sentencing date is set for October 28.<\/p>

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Since leaving his position in the first Trump administration in 2019, Bolton has become a vocal critic of the president. When he was first indicted last October, Bolton saidthe case was an attempt by Trump to use the Justice Department to punish his political enemies. The president has gone after officials like former FBI director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and former Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Justice Department under Joe Biden continued to gather evidence in the case and the 18-count indictment focused on Bolton\u2019s private messages containing national security information\u2014not the contents of the memoir. The indictment alleged that Bolton used his personal email and a messaging app to share more than 1000 pages of notes with two family members.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The indictment said that Bolton\u2019s emails were later hacked by someone with ties to the government of Iran. \u201cA representative for Bolton notified the U.S. government of the hack in or about July 2021,\u201d the filing reads in part, \u201cbut did not tell the U.S. government that the account contained national defense information, including classified information.\u201d<\/p>

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