Peter Navarro

That money is specifically targeted at vulnerabilities in our supply chain.

This is a very serious and detailed indictment.

It says that John Bolton derived secrets from his time as national security advisor, assembled them because he was writing a book, sent them over unclassified email and messaging apps to his wife and daughter.

We've identified the two people as his wife and daughter.

And then that information was hacked by the government of Iran.

At least one of those email accounts was hacked.

And so the government of Iran obtained some of these state secrets, according to this indictment.

And the indictment says that Bolton used language that made clear he knew he was talking about sensitive information.

Things like the Intel briefer said or went in the situation room.

I learned.

So this is.

And these charges, as you said, carry 10 years each.

So he could spend the rest of his life in prison, in theory, if convicted on these charges.

But let me tell you what the defense could be here.

I should add that this case has been this case is being prosecuted by career prosecutors, respected people.

Unlike the Comey and the James case, which was avoided by every career prosecutor in the department and pursued only by Donald Trump's political appointee.

This one has gone through normal channels, as we understand it.

But let me explain some potential mitigating circumstances here.

Lots of people.

who have jobs where they see classified information write books.