{"id":14552,"date":"2025-10-17T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bolton-on-indictment-says-he-hasbecome-the-latest-target-in-weaponizing-the-doj\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:20:18","slug":"bolton-on-indictment-says-he-hasbecome-the-latest-target-in-weaponizing-the-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bolton-on-indictment-says-he-hasbecome-the-latest-target-in-weaponizing-the-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton on indictment says he has\u2018become the latest target in weaponizing\u2019 the DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former national security adviser John Bolton, who was indicted Thursday, said he is &ldquo;the latest target&rdquo; in what he alleges are President Trump&rsquo;s efforts to weaponize the Justice Department (DOJ).  Bolton, who served as the national security adviser during Trump&rsquo;s first term before becoming a sharp critic of the president&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5559899-bolton-indictment-defense-trump-doj\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former national security adviser John Bolton, who was indicted Thursday, said he is &ldquo;the latest target&rdquo; in what he alleges are President Trump&rsquo;s efforts to weaponize the Justice Department (DOJ). Bolton, who served as the national security adviser during Trump&rsquo;s first term before becoming a sharp critic of the president&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}