All posts tagged "John Bolton"

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton warned on Monday that Iran can sense how "desperate" President Donald Trump is to secure a deal that its leaders are "playing him."

Bolton told CNN anchor Pamela Brown that as negotiations drag on, Tehran has sensed Trump's weaknesses — and that the president might not fully understand Iran's level of "fanaticism of what's left of the regime and the people who are in power." Bolton argued that Trump's worldview throughout his life has been that he can negotiate with anyone, and that's not the case with this military conflict and adversary.

"He thinks everybody wants to make a deal on just about anything," Bolton said. "That's not what these people are into. And they can see that Trump is so palpably desperate to have a deal that he can declare to be a victory and it lowers prices of gasoline —and they're playing him on that. They're stretching him out. They're buying time. All of that works in their advantage."...

An ex-national security advisor is pointing out the hypocrisy in the John Bolton investigation and indictment, questioning the "extraordinary peculiarities."

In a Substack post published Friday, former national security advisor and author Miles Taylor outlines a series of questions "probing the extraordinary peculiarities and convenient coincidences in this case."

Bolton, the third Trump political enemy and prominent critic to be charged with a crime, was indicted on 18 counts by a federal grand jury in Maryland on Thursday afternoon. ...

John Bolton, President Donald Trump's national security adviser from 2018-2019, was indicted on 18 counts by a federal grand jury in Maryland on Thursday afternoon.

Here are five key excerpts in Bolton's indictment.

1. "From on or about April 9, 2018, through at least on or about August 22, 2025, Bolton abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor—including information relating to the national defense which was classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level—with two unauthorized individuals, namely Individuals 1 and 2."...

"A chump, a fool, a know-nothing." That's how former Trump adviser-turned-critic John Bolton portrayed the president before he was raided by the FBI, according to conservative lawyer and activist George Conway.

Conway, the prominent conservative attorney and “never Trump” Republican turned independent, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss the FBI raid.

When asked about the motives for the Trump administration, Conway said, "Truth of the matter is, what Donald Trump was upset about was not that there was classified information in there."...

John Bolton tweeted out criticism of President Donald Trump's handling of the Russia-Ukraine war as FBI agents raided his home.

Federal investigators executed a court-approved search warrant at the former national security adviser's Maryland home on Friday morning as part of a probe into his handling of classified materials, but Trump has been threatening to jail his former appointee since publishing a highly critical book on him five years ago.

"Russia has not changed its goal: drag Ukraine into a new Russian Empire," Bolton posted on X at 7:32 a.m., while agents were at his house. "Moscow has demanded that Ukraine cede territory it already holds and the remainder of Donetsk, which it has been unable to conquer. Zelensky will never do so."...

Former Donald Trump advisor John Bolton is the subject of an early morning raid being conducted by the FBI, The Bulwark is reporting.

Bolstered by live video being streamed by Lawfare’s Ben Wittes which shows the street being blocked off by Montgomery County police, the Bulwark’s Jonathan Last is reporting, “Montgomery County police confirmed that they were on site in support of the FBI.”

Bolton has become a major critic of the Trump administration critic of the Trump administration since leaving under a cloud during the president’s first term, where the longtime advisor to presidents provided guidance on the Middle East....