Bolton compares Trump administration to Stalin secret police after indictment
by Ryan Mancini - 10/17/25 8:54 AM ET
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton compared the Trump administration to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s secret police following the former national security adviser’s indictment on Thursday.
“I have become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he deems to be his enemies with charges that were declined before or distort the facts,” Bolton said in a statement.
“Then came Trump 2 who embodies what Joseph Stalin’s head of secret police once said, ‘You show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.'”
Federal prosecutors say that Bolton sent more than a thousand pages of “diary-like entries” to two relatives and retained documents, writings and notes related to national defense. Those two individuals were Bolton’s wife and daughter, according to The Associated Press.
Bolton has claimed the charges are part of Trump’s retribution campaign against him, which ramped up after the publication of his memoir “The Room Where It Happened.”
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