The Daily Beast reports Trumpie is excited:
In recent days, President Donald Trump has casually asked administration officials and close advisers if John Bolton—his former national security adviser who is releasing a new, tell-all book about working in the Trump administration—is prison-bound, three sources with knowledge of his private inquiries tell The Daily Beast.
“Do you think he’s going to go to jail for this?” Trump said, according to one of the people who’ve heard him ask this…
The president’s aides have argued that the work is filled with lies. They’ve also insisted that it’s filled with classified information, prompting a mad dash effort to stop its publication. Trump’s reaction to the allegations, including the casual pondering of imprisonment, underscores the stakes that he believes are at play. It comes as federal prosecutors are reportedly weighing criminal charges against Bolton.
Trump has wanted to jail his political enemies from the very beginning., we know that. It would be deliciously ironic if the only one to actually do time were John Bolton.
But it’s highly doubtful that this will happen unless Trump wins re-election (at which point I expect all of us to be sent to re-education camps somewhere in Death Valley.) Bolton may lose his money though and that’s something.