Surprising no one, former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton was indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on Thursday, the AP reports, citing sources as the indictment has not been made public yet. It was definitely about his absconding with classified documents, however.

Again, this is different from the situations with James Comey and Letitia James. Bolton really did fuck this up and leave himself vulnerable to real prosecution. That it is political is besides the point as he simply gave Trump’s regime the opening and they took it. You do not have to be particularly upset over “weaponization” in here insomuch as it being a contrived bullshit case. It most likely isn’t.

That being said, prosecutors have discretion and if whatever Bolton had in his house was actually classified it obviously wasn’t sensitive enough for the Biden Justice Department to send the friggin FBI to raid his house and then indict him on these kind of charges, or even bother to repeatedly ask that he return them. That right there is your contrast with you know who and his legions of fanboys who claimed that it was just a “paperwork dispute” and that he could retroactively declassify the documents with his mind and all that other horseshit. The ones who said it was an atrocity to turn federal law enforcement against one’s political opponents – irrespective of their actual culpability.

The kind of thing that in retrospect was obviously a permission structure to even the score.