Legal Stuff - John Bolton artwork

Legal Stuff - John Bolton

Hammer + Nigel Show Podcast

June 4, 2026

The DOJ claimed that Bolton sent more than 1,000 pages of classified information to his wife and daughter via email. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Speakers: Hammer, Nigel
**Hammer** (0:00)
And Ms. Allison, can you please have the Attorney General of the great state of Indiana, Todd Rakita, start some legal stuff?

**Nigel** (0:07)
Legal stuff.

**Hammer** (0:09)
Crime, punishment, judges. Legal stuff.

**Nigel** (0:15)
Legal stuff.

**Hammer** (0:18)
So we have an update to a previous story. This is in regards to former National Security Advisor, John Bolton.
Oh.

**Nigel** (0:31)
That's a wrong Bolton.

**Hammer** (0:33)
It's the best I could do. I didn't know what type of music I was supposed to play for John Bolton. I couldn't find a song that says war is awesome and let's do it all the time. So I just went with Michael Bolton. OK, get off my back.
So former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

**Nigel** (0:52)
Under Donald Trump, by the way.

**Hammer** (0:54)
Correct. Agreeing to a guilty plea for felony mishandling of classified documents.

**Nigel** (1:02)
You see this?

**Hammer** (1:03)
There was a little period there where everybody and their brother was getting busted for having classified documents.

**Nigel** (1:08)
I remember.

**Hammer** (1:09)
Trump and Biden.

**Nigel** (1:11)
Well, Biden, not so much. You just got a stern talking to.

**Hammer** (1:15)
Even though they were like in a big box next to the bitch in Corvette.

**Nigel** (1:19)
In his garage.

**Hammer** (1:21)
Right. Where known crackhead Hunter Biden could come in and out of it all hours.
John Bolton, the Justice Department claims that he sent more than 1000 pages of classified docs to his wife and daughter via email. Then he allegedly printed out all of this info because he wanted to put it in his Trump bashing memoir.

**Nigel** (1:45)
Ah, there it is.

**Hammer** (1:47)
Fancy talk for his horrible book.

**Nigel** (1:50)
There it is. John Bolton in his horrible book. He's emailing himself classified documents.

**Hammer** (1:56)
Yes, sent to his wife and kids. Hey, keep this. I'm going to put this in the book.
It was classified information.

**Nigel** (2:03)
This guy was the national security advisor, and he doesn't know that you can't email yourself classified documents.

**Hammer** (2:13)
You act surprised, Nigel.

**Nigel** (2:14)
I am surprised.

**Hammer** (2:15)
Keep in mind that a member of the National Intel Committee was banging a Chinese spy in Eric Swalwell.

**Nigel** (2:22)
Oh, Fartwell and Feng Feng. Sure. Yeah.

**Hammer** (2:25)
These are the people calling the shots, by the way.
On this one count, the penalty is technically up to five years in prison. But this plea deal comes with Bolton agreeing to pay back two point two five million dollars and no jail time. I mean, the judge, in theory, could sentence Bolton to prison, but the money is going to get him out of this.

**Nigel** (2:51)
He ain't going to jail.

**Hammer** (2:52)
No, not at all. It's The Hammer and Nigel Show.

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