A grand jury is convening today to consider charges against ex-national security chief John Bolton over sharing classified documents.
It comes two months after an FBI raid on the former Trump staffer’s Maryland home in search of allegedly stolen ‘highly sensitive national security’ files.
DOJ expects an indictment to be filed against the 76-year-old on Wednesday or Thursday. The case is ‘air tight,’ sources told the New York Post.
Bolton is accused of using his private email account to remove secret information and record detailed minutes of his daily activities during his time in office.
Bolton served as an adviser to Trump from April 2018 until the president fired him September 2019.
The hawkish military advisor often clashed with Trump’s diplomacy-first strategy when engaging with rival countries, such as North Korea or China.
In the raid on his home, FBI agents removed a white binder with a the label ‘statements and reflections to allied strikes’.
Typed documents stuck in folders labeled ‘Trump I-IV’ were taken from Bolton’s home, as well as four boxes containing ‘printed daily activities’, a DOJ filing said.
John Bolton speaks at Harvard Kennedy School’s John F. Kennedy Jr Forum, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass
FBI agents descended on Bolton’s home for a raid that lasted over seven hours on August 22
The former UN ambassador had two iPhones, four computers and hard drives, and two USB drives stripped from his property.
The FBI warrant also authorized agents to press Bolton’s fingers onto devices if his fingerprints were needed to unlock certain devices.
Moreover, agents were allowed to hold his devices in front of Bolton’s face to unlock them with facial recognition.
The warrant was approved by a federal magistrate with the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
The probe into Bolton was first launched in 2020, but it was quashed during President Joe Biden’s administration for ‘political reasons.’
However, FBI Director Kash Patel reopened the high-profile case.
Once privy to some of the most classified information in the world, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stripped Bolton of his security clearance.
The investigation also focuses on Bolton’s use of classified documents while writing his memoir The Room Where It Happened.
FBI agents removed a white binder with the label ‘statements and reflections to allied strikes’ from Bolton’s property
Bolton gestures as he arrives at his house following its search by the FBI, in Bethesda, Maryland, August 22
The 2020 book was critical of Trump’s handling of foreign policy during his first term in the White House.
Bolton regularly appears in TV interviews criticizing Trump’s national security strategy and foreign policy.
And in response, Bolton has become one of the former officials that the president has taken aim at since getting back into office nine months ago.
