CNN's Katelyn Polantz dropped new details on Tuesday evening about a criminal investigation against President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton, which apparently concerns his unlawful handling of classified information.
This comes as Trump's Justice Department rushes through cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James that are widely considered to be politically motivated and ill-conceived by legal experts; however, the Bolton case appears to be different, as the Biden administration reportedly was also investigating Bolton and had complicated reasons for not wanting to bring the case unrelated to his guilt.
"You ... have some new details as to what the Justice Department is actually investigating," said anchor Jake Tapper.
"Yeah, Jake, what we're understanding now is more about John Bolton's AOL account, his email," said Polantz. "In that email account, we understand from our sources, is that John Bolton was making notes essentially in real time when he was serving as Donald Trump's National Security Advisor in the first Trump administration."
"And those notes at one point were described to me sort of like a diary entry," Polantz continued. "On some days, they might not be every day, but they're summaries of what he was experiencing, and that is a big part of what this classified investigation of potential mishandling of classified records and investigation around Bolton is."
"It's not just the idea that Donald Trump was angry over his book and that he went through a classification process to make sure his book manuscript was okay to publish," she added. "There's this other thing, a driving force of this investigation for many years that makes it a serious thing that Bolton could be charged with as soon as this week."