{"id":75389,"date":"2026-06-26T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/former-trump-adviser-john-bolton-pleads-guilty-to-mishandling-classified-information\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:55:19","slug":"former-trump-adviser-john-bolton-pleads-guilty-to-mishandling-classified-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/former-trump-adviser-john-bolton-pleads-guilty-to-mishandling-classified-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-national security adviser turned Trump critic could face prison for sharing classified information with relatives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jun\/26\/trump-news-john-bolton-updates-today\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/john-bolton\">John Bolton<\/a>, the former US national security adviser who became an arch-enemy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> after serving under him and then being fired, pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of mishandling classified information that could result in him going to prison.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton admitted the charge, as widely anticipated, in an appearance at a federal court in Greenbelt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/maryland\">Maryland<\/a>, in a plea deal designed to produce a lesser sentence by reducing the seriousness of the accusations against him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/26\/john-bolton-guilty-mishandle-classified-information\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-national security adviser turned Trump critic could face prison for sharing classified information with relatives US politics live \u2013 latest updates John Bolton, the former US national security adviser who became an arch-enemy of Donald Trump after serving under him and then being fired, pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of mishandling classified information &#8230; <a title=\"Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified information\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/former-trump-adviser-john-bolton-pleads-guilty-to-mishandling-classified-information\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to mishandling classified information\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}