Former National Security Advisor John Bolton compared President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to Joseph Stalin’s secret police following his indictment on Thursday on charges of mishandling classified information.
I’ve become the latest target in politicizing the Justice Department to target his enemies,” Bolton said in a release. “And then there’s Trump 2 who is the embodiment of what Joseph Stalin’s head of secret police used to say, ‘You show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.’
Federal authorities accuse Bolton of sharing more than a thousand pages of “diary-type entries” containing national defense information to his daughter and wife on unsecured email accounts. The indictment also accuses him of failing to report his personal email was compromised in 2021, allegedly by Iran.
Bolton argues the case is political, accusing Trump of attempting to seek revenge for his book, The Room Where It Happened, which the president tried to suppress. “These claims are not merely about his focus on me or my diaries, but his systematic effort to intimidate his opponents,” Bolton argued.
Legal commentators observe that Bolton’s case appears more robust than similar prosecutions of Trump critics, as prosecutors allege unauthorized release of top-level secrets. Bolton vowed to fight the charges, terming opposition “integral to America’s system of constitutional governance.”.
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