Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony count of unlawfully retaining national defense information. The plea was made in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, before U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang. Bolton, 77, had faced an 18-count indictment that had accused him of both transmitting and retaining highly sensitive, classified materials during and after his time in the Trump administration. Bolton served as national security advisor from April 2018 until September 2019. Prosecutors alleged that while in that role, he created extensive “diary-like entries” and notes detailing his daily activities, meetings with foreign leaders, intelligence briefings, and sensitive policy discussions. He then transmitted more than 1,000 pages of this material, some classified up…
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