John Bolton's Classified Documents Lecture Tour Ends With an Awkward Plot Twist

For years, John Bolton has been one of President Donald Trump's loudest critics, happily appearing on television to explain why mishandling classified documents was practically the crime of the century. On Friday, that moral lecture tour hit an unexpected speed bump when Bolton pleaded guilty to a felony count of illegally retaining sensitive national security information.

Turns out the self-appointed hall monitor wandered off with the answer key.

Under a plea agreement, Bolton will pay a $2.5 million fine while avoiding prison. The court could still impose probation, home confinement, or another penalty, but the former national security advisor walked away with far less than the mountain of charges he originally faced, just like most high-level politicians.

Federal prosecutors initially charged Bolton with 18 counts related to retaining and transmitting national defense information, a crime that should result in capital punishment or at least a life sentence. However, most of those charges disappeared as part of the deal, but Bolton admitted guilt to one serious felony involving sensitive national security information that could have endangered the country if it landed in the wrong hands.

The case stems from Bolton's time serving as Trump's national security advisor between 2018 and 2019 and the tell all memoir he later published after reinventing himself as one of Trump's favorite cable news critics.

According to prosecutors, Bolton kept detailed diary style notes on his personal computer and stored them at both his Maryland home and his Washington office. The notes reportedly included information from intelligence briefings, meetings with senior officials, and conversations with foreign leaders, including material classified at the Top Secret and Sensitive Compartmented Information levels. But alas, no firing squad, no life sentence, just a big fine and loss of pension. 

Whoop-dee-doo!

Investigators also alleged Bolton handed more than 1,000 pages of these notes to two relatives who had no security clearance, reportedly so they could help with his book.

The FBI raided Bolton's home and office last August, recovering documents and other evidence. Bolton initially pleaded not guilty, insisting the notes were merely personal records used during the writing process. He also maintained that the published version of his memoir successfully passed prepublication review and contained no classified information. He lied.

The irony here could not be thicker if it were poured over pancakes.

Bolton spent years insisting President Trump belonged behind bars over the classified documents case Democrats aggressively pursued during the 2024 campaign.

"I think this is a potentially catastrophic turn of events for him. It certainly should be, because if proven in trial it should put Trump in jail for a long time," Bolton declared during a June 2023 interview with NPR.

He also argued that the government should "hold everyone accountable equally, and that does not exclude the president. I think this is a real issue that's going to have profound impacts on our national security if we don't take it seriously."

And still he gets no prison time or a rope.

Fast forward a few years, and suddenly accountability comes with a plea bargain instead of dramatic cable news predictions.

After the Justice Department indicted him, Bolton sounded remarkably familiar, claiming he had "become 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." He lied.

Funny how quickly someone discovers the dangers of a weaponized Justice Department once they're sitting in the defendant's chair instead of the commentator's chair.

The plea agreement closes the criminal case without any admission of wrongdoing related to the classified information that ultimately appeared in his book. Even so, Bolton's guilty plea leaves behind one unforgettable lesson: if you're going to spend years demanding that everyone else be treated equally under the law, it helps not to end up pleading guilty to the very kind of offense you insisted deserved harsh punishment.

Still, the walrus gets to stay out of the slammer.

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Another Biden Border Catastrophe: Afghan “Ally” Shoots National Guard Troops in D.C., Yelling “Allahu Akbar” – And He Was Vetted!

Folks, here we go again. Just when you thought the Biden-Harris open-borders disaster couldn’t get any more deadly, an Afghan migrant who was fast-tracked into America under their chaotic 2021 evacuation shoots two young National Guard soldiers patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C. One is dead. The other is fighting for his life. And the suspect? He screamed “Allahu akbar!” while doing it.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, pleaded not guilty Tuesday – from his hospital bed, no less, where he’s recovering from wounds after police stopped his rampage just as he tried to reload.

He’s charged with assault with intent to kill while armed, possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and murder. Bond denied – thank God for small miracles.The victims? Twenty-year-old Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, who tragically died the next day, and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, who remains in serious condition.

These kids had literally been sworn in less than 24 hours earlier. As U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said:

“Both Beckstrom and Wolfe ‘were sworn in less than 24 hours before they were shot on the street in Washington.’”

Beckstrom even volunteered to work over Thanksgiving so her fellow soldiers could be with their families. Heartbreaking.

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said Wolfe “remains in serious condition,” but is showing signs of movement and awareness.

President Trump, during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, revealed he’d spoken directly with Wolfe’s parents:

“They said he didn’t have a chance,” Trump recalled. “I will tell you, the one who said he is going to live is his mother … ‘Sir, he is going to live.’ I spoke to her very soon after this horrible event took place with this scum that is able to come into our country.”

“I spoke to his mother, ‘Sir, he’s going to be okay. I’m telling you.’ No doctor thought that. Nobody thought that. He was hit bad places. She was so positive, it was incredible. And possibly right. … That would be amazing. If he lives, it would be amazing, a miracle, actually.”

Pray for that young man. Pray for both families.

Now here’s the part that should infuriate every American: Lakanwal was brought here in 2021 under Biden’s infamous “Operation Allies Welcome” – the same frantic airlift that dumped roughly 77,000 Afghans into the country with what even DHS now admits was laughably inadequate vetting.

He got asylum in April. Why? Because, we’re told, he supposedly worked with U.S. entities in Afghanistan – including, according to former CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the agency itself.So the same administration that left billions in equipment and Americans behind in Kabul turned around and flew in tens of thousands of people – and at least one of them just murdered an American soldier on our own soil while shouting the jihadist war cry.

The Trump administration has already responded by halting asylum decisions and stopping new Afghan visas. About time someone slammed the door shut.

This is what happens when you treat national security like a giant welcome wagon. Sarah Beckstrom is never coming home. Andrew Wolfe is clinging to life. And the people who created this preventable nightmare still won’t admit they were wrong.Never forget: they called it “Operation Allies Welcome.”

One of those “allies” just declared war on America – again.

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President of Freedom of the Press Founda. Ed Snowden mum on freedom of the press

Pictured above: Hypocrite 

The President of Freedom of the Press Foundation and former contractor at the National Security Agency currently living in Moscow, Russia in exile since 2013, Edward Snowden has said not a word publicly about Russia's criminalization of independent reporting after they launched an invasion of Ukraine on February 24th. And while his shirt spells out his organization, and the caption above his head says, "Stand for Something," the only thing Snowden apparently stands for his himself.

His organization, of which he is president, is a California-based charity that tracks "press freedom violations" in the United States as minor as journalists being denied access to press conferences, similar to what Russia is doing to non-sanctioned journalists in Snowden's adopted country.

Just this past Jan. 26th, Snowden urged Danish citizens to go against their government when it threatened to impose lengthy prison sentences on members of the media who reported state secrets. But now Snowden is silent about Russia imposing imprisonment of up to 15 years. for reporting on what Russia is doing in Ukraine and conveniently labels their atrocities as "fake news."

Snowden is as quiet as a roach peeing on a cotton ball.

Examples the Russian government gives of "fake information" include any reporting of the invasion of Ukraine that isn't sourced directly from the Russian Defense Ministry. 

Like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, the Russian government determines what is real and what is fake, and this doesn't seem to rattle Edward Snowden's cage enough to condemn the practice he pretends to be fighting against.

Russia's law has led many Western news outlets to suspend reporting in Russia.

“The change to the criminal code, which seems designed to turn any independent reporter into a criminal purely by association, makes it impossible to continue any semblance of normal journalism inside the country,” Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait said Friday.

Snowden and the Freedom of the Press Foundation did not return requests for comment made by Fox News and Brain Flushings because he's a commie coward whose words are as useless as Betamax tape.

Snowden issued a slew of tweets prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in which the twerp criticized the Biden administration for claiming Russia's invasion was imminent and blasting American media for "pushing for war." While that may be true, when it comes to what Russia did when they invaded was evaded by the traitorous slime ball.

"So... if nobody shows up for the invasion Biden scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3AM, I'm not saying your journalistic credibility was instrumentalized (sic) as part of one of those disinformation campaigns you like to write about, but you should at least consider the possibility," Snowden tweeted on Feb. 15.

However, since February 27th, Snowden stopped commenting to his 5.1 million followers because, like AOC on gas prices soaring, he had nothing to say that would get him in trouble.

"I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls," he said. "I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong."

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The truth is, Snowden is scared and has no business being head of an organization called Freedom of the Press Foundation. He deserves the permanent residency in Russia that he was granted in October 2020. And while he says he never worked for or cooperated with the Russian government, do you really believe him?

Snowden was the cause of enormous damage to our national security and likely compromised the safety of clandestine operators in the CIA. He should never be allowed to return to this country without the promise of legal repercussions for what he did.

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WH cannot get it together explaining their Afghanistan screwup as Kabul falls to Taliban

Saigon (L);  Kabul (R)
Biden claimed there would be no comparison between these events

While so-called President Joe Biden hangs out at Camp David watching "Petticoat Junction" re-runs and licking his chocolate chip Ben and Jerry's cone, Afghanistan is going to hell in a Whole Foods bag as the Taliban meticulously takes over the country in fewer hours than Secretary of State Antony Blinken predicted would be in days. 

The Biden-Harris-Obama-Jarrett-AOC administration was slammed on Sunday for apparently exposing CIA operations in Qatar to deflect from his cluster-frack he created in Afghanistan and the enormous victory won by the scumcrumpets of the Taliban [pronounced "Tahleebahn" by Biden and Obama and others who want to impress you with the sound of words rather than deeds].

In an attempt to pacify the public to Co-President Biden's non-response to the Blitzkrieg of Afghanistan, the White House brain trust posted an ostensibly "recent" photo of Sleepy Joe sitting alone in a conference room at Camp David Sunday morning while on vacation.

 The White House tweeted with the photo.

"This morning, the President and Vice President met with their national security team and senior officials to hear updates on the draw down of our civilian personnel in Afghanistan, evacuations of SIV applicants and other Afghan allies, and the ongoing security situation in Kabul." 

But the photo, likely sent out by their communications department, only brought about more condemnation as two separate screens on the monitor had labels: "CIA" and "Doha Station," a likely secret American outpost in Doha.  

National Review's Jim Geraghty caught the image and tweeted:

Heck of a job, White House communications shop. I figure you would want to crop out the teleconference screens labe… https://t.co/grWKo4LDDJ— Jim Geraghty (@Jim Geraghty)1629055773.0
Were there any other problems?

So the idiots in the White House probably exposed CIA operations in Doha along with the faces of the operators involved there and could easily get them killed. But it didn't end there. Others on social media saw interesting discrepancies [aka problems] with the photo.

The clocks above the teleconference screens, giving the current time in major cities across different time zones, were incorrect. The clocks indicated a 3-hour time difference between London and Moscow but at this time of year, there is only a 2-hour difference, meaning that the photo isn't recent because Russia no longer observes DST--it ended in 2014. But Biden did take a trip to Camp David before DST went into effect this spring.

As far as Biden's decision to pull out all support for the Afghan struggle, experts strongly criticize him over the mess he has made. And it's important to remember, not one American has been killed in Afghanistan since February 8th of 2020. Chicago and New York City are far more dangerous.

For example, David Adesnik, Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), noted in FDD’s bimonthly Biden administration foreign policy tracker that “even though, as vice president, Joe Biden saw how the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq led to the rise of the Islamic State as well as tremendous suffering for the Iraqi people, he appears not to have prepared for similar risks in Afghanistan.”

And world leaders are speaking out against Biden's thoughtless decision, a decision that was not supported by his advisors. 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shared his disappointment with Afghanistan's current security debacle and he pins the blame squarely on the shoulders of Biden and the United States, saying that it was "fair to say the US decision to pull out has accelerated things, but this has in many ways been a chronicle of an event foretold." He also urged western leaders to work in concert to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a "breeding ground for terrorism."

"I think it is very important that the West should work collectively to get over to that new government - be it by the Taliban or anybody else - that nobody wants Afghanistan once again to be a breeding ground for terror and we don't think it is in the interests of the people of Afghanistan that it should lapse back into that pre-2001 status," Johnson told Sky News.

It seems that Joe Biden continues to fulfill the words of Robert Gates on the president's foreign policy and national security:

"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

Biden has even removed the U.S. contractors who could have helped the Afghan Air Force stand up against the Taliban so the country is left with nothing to defend themselves with in the air because they cannot repair the aircraft without technical support from the contractors.

As of this post, 7 people have died hanging onto jets after takeoff as they tried to flee the torn country. 

Biden said that it would not be another Saigon and he is correct: it's much worse.


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Assange says he urged Don Jr. to publish on WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks founder and enemy of our national security Julian Assange said he contacted Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday morning to convince him to publish the emails involved with his meeting with a Russian lawyer who lured him with the claim that she has damaging information about Hillary Clinton on the site.

"Contacted Trump Jr this morning on why he should publish his emails (i.e. with us). Two hours later, does it himself," the self-serving slug tweeted.

Julian Assange @JulianAssange

Contacted Trump Jr this morning on why he should publish his emails (i.e with us). Two hours later, does it himself: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/884795916720406529 …

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Earlier on Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. published an email exchange he had with British publicist Rob Goldstone. It showed they corresponded about a meeting with Russian attorney, Natalia Veselnitskaya, last year.

Goldstone told Don Jr. that the lawyer had damaging information about Hillary Clinton, and this was part of Russia's government's efforts to help defeat the shrieking felon. [He didn't actually write that--I just did]. 

Ultimately, Trump Jr., former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in June 2016. According to Trump Jr., the meeting didn't discuss any information about Hillary and seemed somewhat confusing to Trump Jr., and appeared to have focused on the adoption issue of Russian children.

Donald Trump Jr. will be speaking to Sean Hannity Tuesday night and will discuss the emails, and Bob Muller will also be looking into the situation as well.


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President holds presser at White House, big league

President Trump held a presser at the White House and said that he has "inherited a mess, a mess," adding that jobs are leaving the country, "going to Mexica and other places," but assures the American people that he will take care of it.

As usual, he also attacked the media calling them "dishonest," but hopes that the relationship will change.

He said that he also inherited ISIS and it has "spread like cancer," and that it was another mess. He vows to rebuild the military and hopes we will never have to use it, but "our country will never have had the military, like the military we will have." He explained that the military equipment is old and "depleted." 

Mr. Trump said that he is keeping his campaign promises to the American people even though some appear to be surprised. 

He then spoke again about how he received 306 electoral votes and how it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.

He said that he will be in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday and "I heard the crowds will be massive, massive."

Regulations will be dealt with, he said. As he vowed, when any new regulation is put in place, two old regulations will be eliminated.

Overall, Mr. Trump trumpeted his accomplishments including law enforcement, jobs and the problems with illicit drugs. He also discussed how he is in the process of building the promised wall and how it's going to be "a great wall," and that the prices will come down. It will not be a "nonexistent" wall, or a wall that is "a joke."

He pointed out how the court system is not making it easy for his administration to keep the country safe against Islamic terrorism. He alluded to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and how their rulings have been overturned "in record numbers."

He plans to "drain the swamp" by imposing the 5-year lobbying ban and eliminate foreign lobbyists altogether.

He will eliminate the "bleeding of jobs away from out country" and said that jobs have already started to surge. Ford and Chrysler will be investing millions of dollars in the country.

In other words, nothing new was discussed except for the fact that he will be issuing a new executive order regarding the immigration ban.

Then the press questioned the president.

Regarding Michael Flynn, Trump said he asked for his resignation and he respectfully gave it. He called the reporting about it was "fake news."


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Clinton privilege: above the law

How many laws does it take for a Clinton to break before they have to defend themselves in court?

Now we have found dozens of emails released by the State Department that belonged to Hillary Clinton to have contained classified information as deemed by that department. 

With the release of about 3,900 emails, over 200 have been marked "B1," meaning they contain classified information. There were over 100 "B5" emails that refer to internal deliberations by the president and they are exempt from disclosure to Congress and the public.

Almost all of the emails were "confidential" and at least 3 so far, are "secret." That level is sensitive enough to cause serious damage to our national security if made public.

Officials upgraded the classification level of parts of 215 emails, State Department spokes snuffy John Kirby said. "The information we upgraded today was not marked classified at the time the emails were sent. It has been subsequently upgraded."

That's no excuse. The secretary of state should know what's classified and what isn't. The secretary of state should not use a private server for those emails and then lie to the American people about not sending or receiving classified emails. Then changing the lie to not sending or receiving emails marked classified.

But why blame Hillary for lying when it's just another vast right wing conspiracy? After all, how can she be the first woman president of the United States if serving time in Federal prison?


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Hillary's server still dirty--let's hope so

Is it possible that the FBI is going to be able to recover all those "yoga" emails and Chelsea's wedding plans from Mamma Hillary's server? Well, according to The Washington Post, Platte River Networks says that it has "no knowledge of the server being wiped." 

Maybe Hillary forgot to bring a "cloth or something."

The Denver, Colorado-based company took control of Hillary's unauthorized private server back in 2013 after it had been set up by Bryan Pagliano, a State Department staffer who was paid personally by Hillary. 

It wouldn't surprise anyone if Pagliano was paid with funds from The Clinton Foundation, but that remains to be seen. Stay tuned--it makes a difference.

Clinton claims to have deleted 31,000 personal emails but kept the government emails and claims to have provided all of them to the government. Nothing on Benghazi; nothing on the family foundation.

A good mother would have kept the wedding emails and other personal ones for posterity and other sentimental reasons, but Hillary dumped them all, she claims. Yet she kept all of the government emails, all of which she says are "unclassified."

The first lie was when she claimed to only have one device for convenience and it was later discovered that she had at least 3 devices. It gets to a point where it's impossible to believe anything Hillary Clinton says.

It seems to me that if she "never sent or received" any classified emails, she wasn't doing her job as Secretary of State--that stuff comes with the territory. Remember, her lie went from "sent or received classified emails" to "sent or received any emails marked 'Classified.' 

That's lawyer talk--she was simply trying to cover her pear-shaped butt.

A company spokesman for Platte River Networks told the Washington Post "Platte River has no knowledge of the server being wiped. All the information we have is that the server wasn't wiped."

I bet after hearing that, Hillary fired the "Wiper."



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Trayvon Zimmerman Morsi and Concomitant Scandals

Says he was overpowered by Trayvon

The country is focused on the Zimmerman trial. The race hustlers are upset that the prosecution is now saying that it isn't about race anymore; it's about profiling. Of course, the profiling they're talking about may actually have something to do with race--that's why they call it racial profiling. But I don't mean to cast aspersions on anyone. Now the case is in its second week and it seems that the witnesses called by the prosecution are actually benefitting the defense.