After news broke Thursday that notorious GOP hawk and former national security adviser John Bolton was slapped with 18 charges for alleged mishandling of classified information, he was quick to claim he's merely being persecuted by former Espionage Act defendant President Donald Trump , much like former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James . But there are a number of reasons why Bolton could be in more serious legal peril, no matter what he says about being on Trump's enemies list.

The charges themselves

Lying to Congress, as Comey is accused of , and lying to a bank to secure a more favorable mortgage rate , as AG James is alleged to have done, are both serious offenses if proven beyond a reasonable doubt. In neither case, however, is the government accus

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