Former White House attorney Ty Cobb said the Trump administration’s prosecution of former national security advisor John Bolton was “clearly not” only based on revenge because the case had legal merit.

“This case would not have been brought but for Trump’s revenge because we know the Biden Justice Department declined to bring this case, quite likely to avoid burning the means and methods through which they extracted the Iranian intelligence, which is a valid governmental concern,” Cobb told CNN.

“But having said that, what we know now is, you know, Bolton insisting that this is, you know, purely revenge,” he said. “That’s clearly not the case.”

Federal prosecutors indicted Bolton on Thursday on 18 counts related to retaining and transmitting national defense information.

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