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Probably not federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for Bolton.
Probably a softer country club version of prison for him.
Bu if it were Donald Trump, or any of the people in the Trump administration, as FBI, DOJ and Merrick Garland went after from 2021-2024, it would definitely have been maximum federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
You saw that for 4 years, where DOJ really went after Trump, after Jan 6th prisoners who almost all were guilty of nothing more than "trespassing" (and even that much was false-flag FBI entrapment, geofencing, moving away the barricades these protesters never knew had previously been there, Capitol police inviting them in holding the entrance double doors wide open for protesters), , PTA parents just objecting to woke indoctrination of their children, and very passive pro-life activists, that DOJ hit with everything they had,
And if DOJ wanted to, they could also prosecute not just John Bolton, but also Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and pretty much EVERY OTHER past cabinet official, of both parties, back to maybe George Washington. No one ever even thought of prosecuting officials for keeping classified documents, until it became a contrived way for the Deep State to go after Trump with everything they've got.
But all these other people, even with no presidential authority to even have classified documents outside of a
SCIF... perfectly OK !!
Bolton seemed very indifferent to national security with classified documents.
But then, so did Joe Biden, so did Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton, and Bill Richardson, Sandy Berger, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton#2025_indictment
