What Everyone’s MISSING About The John Bolton Indictment!

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Jimmy Dore Show

Episode: What Everyone’s MISSING About The John Bolton Indictment!
Date: October 20, 2025
Host: Jimmy Dore
Guests/Co-Hosts: Kurt Metzger, Mike McRae (impersonations), Audio clips of John Bolton

Overview:

This episode centers on the recent indictment of former National Security Advisor John Bolton for illegally retaining and transmitting classified information, and unpacks what the mainstream media is missing or overlooking—especially Bolton’s hypocrisy, legal distinctions between his actions and those of other officials, and the political motivations behind government prosecutions. Additionally, Jimmy and Kurt cover related issues, including corporate media’s handling of similar cases, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, and, briefly, the differing media narratives around hostages in the Israel-Gaza conflict.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Satirical Cold Open with “J.D. Vance” (00:20–05:40)

• Satirical Call-in: Mike McRae, impersonating VP J.D. Vance, riffs on media integrity and government shutdown firings, mocking politicians’ desire for softball questions and disdain for real journalism.
  • Notable exchange:
    • J.D. Vance: “Journalists are not supposed to make us say the bad stuff.” (02:02)
    • Jimmy Dore: “But that's what a journalist's job is, to ask difficult questions.” (02:31)
  • Running joke about “not taking any shit” and the administration’s attempts to avoid scrutiny/isolate themselves from tough media.

2. Setting the Stage: John Bolton, Media, & Double Standards (06:06–14:54)

• Bolton’s Public Persona: Jimmy and Kurt describe Bolton as a “warmongering sociopath…creep,” highlighting his sudden rehabilitation by liberal media because he opposed Trump (06:06).
  • Jimmy: “He was hated by America until he became the darling of CNN because he hated Trump. This guy is a cretin of the first order.” (06:06)
• Bolton’s Hypocrisy: Critiques of Bolton demanding severe punishments—including death—for leakers like Manning, Assange, and Snowden, while now being accused of similar crimes.
  • Notable Quote:
    • Jimmy: “Talk about—has John Bolton heard about the new diet? That’s the one where you get to eat your own words.” (14:43)
• Comparison to Trump/Biden: Explains the differences in how Trump, Biden, and Bolton handled classified documents—Trump (as president) had authority to declassify, Biden (as VP) did not, Bolton (as NSA) had clear restrictions.

3. Laying Out the Bolton Charges & Case Details (08:53–18:28, 23:45–39:48)

• Timeline:
  • DOJ’s investigation into Bolton began in 2022 under the Biden administration—not as a Trump persecution, contradicting Bolton’s current framing. (09:00–09:50)
  • Hackers associated with Iran accessed Bolton’s personal email, where he stored and shared classified information—including with his wife and daughter, who had no clearance.
    • Kurt: “You can't announce a citizen’s clearance, Jimmy.” (12:20)
• Indictment Details:
  • Bolton sent thousands of pages of diary-like entries containing highly classified information to his wife and daughter using unsecured group chats.
  • Explicit breakdown of document exchanges: “On or about April 22, 2018, Bolton sent individuals one and two…a 25-page document which describes information…while National Security Advisor. It’s illegal.” (26:55)
  • Even after DOJ removed documents from his home, Bolton never disclosed emailing classified info to relatives.
  • Bolton failed to report the presence of classified documents after his computer was hacked.
  • The indictment cites Bolton’s public comments about the need to harshly punish leakers as evidence against his own conduct.
• Hypocrisy Highlighted: Montage of Bolton advocating the death penalty or extreme sentences for Assange, Manning, Snowden—a standard he never applied to himself.
  • Bolton on Manning:
    • “If he's found guilty, he should be punished to the fullest extent possible… Death.” (14:36)
  • Bolton on Snowden:
    • “He ought to swing from a tall oak tree.” (17:54)

4. Legal and Political Distinctions

• Trump/Biden/Bolton Case Contrasts (20:09–23:45, 36:14–39:48):
  • Trump: Authority as president to declassify, FBI raid described as political theater.
  • Biden: Possessed classified documents as VP, which is illegal, but was not prosecuted because the special counsel believed “jury wouldn't convict Biden because he's demented.” (21:52)
  • Bolton: No authority as private citizen, no plausible defense; his case is “by the book” (per the NYT).
  • Notable analysis:
    • Jimmy: “Either you have the classified document, or you don't…if you did it, you’re guilty.” (39:10)
• Media Selectivity: The show lampoons corporate media for spinning, downplaying, or politicizing these legal cases to fit tribal political narratives (40:41).
  • Jimmy: “They just want to repeat what they hear on TV, you know, whatever the man on the TV tells them like a real comedian would do.” (40:58)
• Bolton’s Own Defense: Bolton’s statement claims political persecution, omits any assertion of innocence.
  • “Nowhere in that long dissertation does Bolton ever say he's innocent of the charges. Because he's not.” – Quoted from “Leave it legacy Media” and echoed by Jimmy (35:58)
  • Discussion of Bolton’s lost political support—hated by both Democrats and Republicans.

5. Press/Establishment Media Critique (40:41–41:23)

• Jimmy and Kurt attribute public ignorance of legal details and distortion of political reality to media partisanship, encouraging listeners to seek actual facts rather than emotional spin.

6. digression: Israel-Palestine Prisoner and Hostage Narratives (41:23–60:03)

• Comparative Suffering: Jimmy and Kurt contrast media narratives on hostages held by Hamas versus Israeli prisoners held in Israeli jails, highlighting credible reports of torture, mutilation, and executions in Israeli prison systems (44:13–46:46).
• Mainstream Media’s Double Standards:
  • Examples of CNN’s Christine Amanpour being made to apologize for an offhand remark suggesting Israeli hostages might have been treated better than average Gazans.
    • “You never get in trouble for lying. You get in trouble for telling the truth.” (59:12)
  • Criticism that atrocities against Palestinians are routinely minimized or ignored, while Israeli suffering is highlighted.
• Notable Moment: Jimmy plays statements from freed hostages and recounts press coverage to illustrate bias and government messaging discipline.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Bolton’s Hypocrisy:
  • “He wanted Edward Snowden to swing from an oak tree. He even picked out the tree, the kind of tree he wanted him swinging from.” – Jimmy Dore (18:14)
• On Media Standard:
  • “You never get in trouble for lying. You get in trouble for telling the truth.” – Jimmy Dore (59:12)
• Satirical Vice President J.D. Vance:
  • “Journalists are not supposed to make us say the bad stuff. That's not their job.” – J.D. Vance as voiced by Mike McRae (02:02)
• Bolton’s “Dear Diary” Irony:
  • “I find it hilarious that he's a psychopath warmonger with a diary. He's right. ‘Dear Diary, I think Trump is bad.’” – Jimmy Dore (34:57)
• On Why Biden Wasn’t Prosecuted:
  • “The guy who was in charge of prosecuting Biden over those classified documents said, I’m not going to prosecute him because the jury's going to say he doesn't even know what he's doing. He’s a dumb old man who's demented.” – Jimmy Dore (21:52)
• On Media Viewers:
  • “They don’t want to know. They just want to hate Trump.” – Jimmy Dore (41:24)

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Segment Timestamps

• 00:20–05:40 – Satirical call with “J.D. Vance” on journalism and government scandal.
• 06:06–14:54 – Introduction to Bolton case, media/double standards, montage of Bolton calling for harsh punishments.
• 08:53–18:28, 23:45–39:48 – Legal breakdown of charges, hypocrisy, indictment details, media complicity.
• 34:44–39:48 – Legal system “norms,” comparison of Bolton to Trump and Biden.
• 41:23–60:03 – Israel-Palestine prison and hostage narratives, critiques of western media coverage, double standards, apologies for honest reporting.

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Conclusion

Jimmy Dore’s episode is a scathing, comedic, and populist take on the John Bolton indictment, indicting not only Bolton’s personal hypocrisy but the selective outrage and double standards of the U.S. justice system and establishment media. The episode thrums with satire, dark humor, and pointed critique, with Dore and Kurt repeatedly underscoring the contrast between official rhetoric and actual legal and ethical conduct by America’s political and media elites. Bolton’s fate is portrayed as poetic justice, but the larger lesson is a warning about tribal political framing, a lack of genuine journalism, and the dangers of taking mainstream narratives at face value.

Transcript

[Jimmy Dore]

Foreign. October 19th will be in Irvine, California. We'll be in Australia. Then we'll be in Burbank, California, the day after Thanksgiving. And then Potts Down, Pennsylvania, December 6th. Go to Jimmy Dore.com for a link for tickets. Hey, this is Jimmy. Who's this?

[J.D. Vance]

Hey, what's up? It's J.D. vance.

[Jimmy Dore]

Hey, Mr. Vice President. Thanks for calling. What's up?

[J.D. Vance]

Oh, you know me, Jimmy. Just sitting my butt down during the shutdown.

[Jimmy Dore]

I see, buddy.

[J.D. Vance]

But me and President Trump have a new mantra or mission statement or whatever, and it's we're not taking any shit.

[Jimmy Dore]

You hear? Jesus Christ.

[J.D. Vance]

Because seriously, we're not taking any shit.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, loud and clear, Mr. Vice President.

[J.D. Vance]

You're not going to try and give me any, are you, Jimmy? Are you going to give me.

[Jimmy Dore]

I would never.

[J.D. Vance]

Because I won't take it.

[Jimmy Dore]

Okay.

[J.D. Vance]

I'll say, keep your okay. In fact, how about you take your own okay. This is getting weird.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah. What? Yeah. What is this about?

[J.D. Vance]

Well, most recently, ABC News tried to give a shit, and we wouldn't take it.

[Jimmy Dore]

Wait, what happened?

[J.D. Vance]

Well, the other day I was on ABC getting interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. And I went on there in good faith, Jimmy. And instead of him asking me questions about things that actually matter to the American people, like China cornering the market on precious metals, he once again asked me about Tom homan being bribed $50,000, whether he accepted this bribe or not.

[Jimmy Dore]

And well. Did he?

[J.D. Vance]

Okay, now you're doing it, too. You're giving me shit now, and you said you wouldn't. I don't like that. I don't like that at all, Mr. Vice President.

[Jimmy Dore]

I'm not giving you shit. I'm just asking you a straightforward question.

[J.D. Vance]

That's what giving someone shit is. Journalists are not supposed to make us say the bad stuff. That's not their job. What? Why do y' all not understand this?

[Jimmy Dore]

What bad stuff?

[J.D. Vance]

Yeah, our martyrs are. Took a $50,000 bribe and kept it. It's clear as day. But that would make our administration look bad and corrupt. So it's not fair for journalists to keep harping on it.

[Jimmy Dore]

But that's what a journalist's job is, to ask difficult questions.

[J.D. Vance]

Oh, my God. Literally. Who told you that? And who told George Floppadopoulos that? I assume it was the same lying person because he kept grilling me, and I had to say I didn't know. And also that Tom Homan was totally innocent. I said both of those, and apparently that wasn't good enough, so he cut the commercial Even though I was trying to say something mean about him.

[Jimmy Dore]

I see.

[J.D. Vance]

It made me look like a giant weenus, Jimmy. A giant wenus. It was very disrespectful.

[Jimmy Dore]

So journalists are just supposed to ask you softball questions that set you up to discuss your pre planned talking points?

[J.D. Vance]

Exactly. Now you get it. Anything else is giving someone a bunch of shit.

[Jimmy Dore]

Okay, well, thank you for the journalism lesson.

[J.D. Vance]

And then yesterday, President Trump refused to take a question from ABC because he said of how. Because of how I was treated in that interview. So I was vindicated by Big Daddy. Made me look pretty cool, I think.

[Jimmy Dore]

I'm not sure that made you look cool, actually.

[J.D. Vance]

I know it made me look like that photoshopped round face Internet meme of me, but holding a lollipop and wearing a beanie with a propeller on it. But I'm going to say it made me look cool instead.

[Jimmy Dore]

Okay.

[J.D. Vance]

So now you know the rules. Do you have any journalism questions to ask me?

[Jimmy Dore]

No. No?

[J.D. Vance]

What do you mean, no?

[Jimmy Dore]

With all due respect, Mr. Vice President, I'm not interested in having an interview where I can only ask praiseworthy questions.

[J.D. Vance]

But that's the law.

[Jimmy Dore]

No, it's not, sir.

[J.D. Vance]

Well, it should be. It will be soon.

[Jimmy Dore]

What?

[J.D. Vance]

Nothing.

[Jimmy Dore]

What about all these. These firings that are going on during the shutdown? Your administration said that nearly 10,000 jobs may be on the chopping block.

[J.D. Vance]

Okay, yeah, Jimmy, I'll take this one. That's right, Jimmy. And this is truly an unfortunate result of this Democrat shutdown, where they have taken our country hostage and refused to come to the table. These job losses are on their hands.

[Jimmy Dore]

But you don't have. You don't have to fire government workers during a shutdown. Like that's not some sort of inevitable result.

[J.D. Vance]

What do you mean?

[Jimmy Dore]

Democrats aren't forcing you to fire government workers. That's what I mean.

[J.D. Vance]

But it's because of the shutdown. I said that.

[Jimmy Dore]

What do you say to the rumors that Trump wants to keep the government shut down as long as possible, perhaps indefinitely, so he can rule essentially by edict, a soft introduction to a dictatorship.

[J.D. Vance]

God damn it. You're giving me shit again, even after I said not to. I can't believe this shit when you say that.

[Jimmy Dore]

Now I know that I've just said something true. You made that very clear earlier in this call. Thank you for your candor, Mr. Vice President.

[J.D. Vance]

No, no, what I meant was, this.

[Jimmy Dore]

Is the Jimmy Dore show. We'll be right back after this.

[J.D. Vance]

No, you're making me look like a wus again.

[Jimmy Dore]

Establishment Media sucks. All that slighting so good luck bullshit.

[Kurt]

We can't afford why he's fomenting this.

[Jimmy Dore]

Watch and see as his jack golf the medium speeds and jumps the middle medium and hit some head on. It's the chimney tour show. Hey, guess what, Kurt? John Bolton, the warmongering sociopath that was hated by America until he became the darling of CNN because he hated Trump. This guy is a cretin of the first order and laugh at all my.

[Kurt]

Jokes at one time. So I'm rooting for it.

[Jimmy Dore]

So they indicted him for illegally having and sharing classified information.

[Kurt]

Well, that's a crime now.

[Jimmy Dore]

By the way. You have to admire somebody who carries their own luggage without wheels. I mean, it says a lot about a man. Nobody knows exactly what it says, but it definitely says a lot about a guy who still goes old school. No wheels on his luggage, old school mustache as well. Oh, yeah, he, you know, he was actually. John Bolton was created from a rough sketch by the Simpsons creator. I don't know if you know that. Matt Groening. Yeah.

[Kurt]

I think he's got that prestigious hand graded hand grenade award from the State Department that they gave him a joke gift that he.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yes.

[Kurt]

Is very proud of. But clearly it was a joke. Anybody remember that?

[Jimmy Dore]

Yes, I was fort trophy. I should, I wish I'd remember that. I'd have put it in this segment. But just real quick, what's going on? First of all, he's guilty. Just in case you don't know he's guilty, he did it. And I think it's going to be hard for him to defend against this. The difference between him and Donald Trump. When they said Donald Trump took classified material. The FBI staged that crime scene when they, when they raided Trump's house after he was president. First time they've ever raided a president's house. So that was a political prosecution. Just like all the other prosecutions of Trump were. Just like January 6th was political prosecutions. Right?

[Kurt]

Yeah. Not because he's never done crimes, but they got to get them on crimes they're not completely guilty of.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's right. So that. That was exactly. That's why it took him so long to impeach Trump the first time to had to find a crime that they weren't also complicit in.

[Kurt]

Didn't succeed, it looks like.

[Jimmy Dore]

Didn't succeed. I mean, they did impeach him, but they didn't get the Senate to agree, so he didn't have to. So just real quick, this is the. And it's going to be really hard for him to defend himself against this, because either, unlike Trump, who was the president, who couldn't unclassify anything he wanted. So the president can take any document that's classified and just go unclassified. Now why? Because I'm the president and I said so. Because he's the top of the chain. Supposed to be the top of the chain.

[Kurt]

That's why they won't show him all the documents. Because he can maybe do that.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's right.

[Kurt]

That stuff above him.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's right. So that's the big difference between that and this. Also another big difference is the FBI staged the crime scene with Donald Trump, and it doesn't appear they did that with John Bolton. Of course, John Bolton, as you'll find out, hasn't even really denied he's done this. But here's the AI overview. Says On October 16, former national security Advisor John Bolton was indicted on charges related to unlawfully retaining and transmitting classified information, some of which was accessed by hackers believed to be associated with Iran.

[Kurt]

What?

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, so that's another part people are missing on this, that, that Iran hacked into his computer where he had this stuff, and then he alerts, he alerts the government that that happened, but he doesn't tell him, hey, I had classified information on there. He didn't tell them that. So the indictment was announced by the Department of Justice following an investigation that began. When did this begin? It began in 2022. So it began during the Biden administration. The Biden administration opened up this investigation into John Bolton when John Bolton was a darling of the liberal class because he hated Trump. And he, that's why he's a darling on cnn. He's one of their favorite people. And just so I just, just to let you know, this is what New York Times says about this. I want to show you this real quick before we move on. So I got this from watching our buddy Greenwald. Glenn Thrush from New York Times says what makes the Bolton indictment so unusual in the Trump era is that it is so usual the prosecution followed normal department channels without firings or without strong arm orders from the White House or forced transfers. Kelly O. Hayes, the US Attorney in Maryland, signed off on the charges in conjunction with, with the department's National Security Division. So this is an investigation that started under Joe Biden and it's very usual. There's no, you know, how Trump recently, to get Comey, he had to get rid of the Attorney general in the, wherever it was and then install another one, his personal lawyer. And so they had to do that kind of stuff. None of that stuff's happening here. This is all by the book. And because it appears, pretty much, he did this. After Bolton left office, his personal email account was hacked by a cyber actor believed to be linked to the Iranian government. This hack gave the foreign entity access to the classified information Bolton had emailed his relatives.

[Kurt]

What.

[Jimmy Dore]

So what Bolton was doing was there was a group chat. I'm going to show you in a second. There was a group chat between him, his daughter and his wife and Michael.

[Kurt]

Bolton, the singer, the saxophone guy, different.

[Jimmy Dore]

Guy, but they were actually trying to plan on writing a book. And so he was sharing classified information with his wife and his daughter, who do not have security clearances, and he was putting it on his own computer. Not a government computer, which is protected from hack, but his own private computer. So again, he's doing it in ten different ways. Wrong.

[Kurt]

You can't announce a citizens clearance, Jimmy. No.

[Jimmy Dore]

Right. The indictment also alleges that Bolton unlawfully retained physical and digital versions of these sensitive documents at his home in Maryland. Failure to reboot, failure to report breach. According to the indictment, a representative for Bolton reported the hack to the government in 2021, but didn't disclose that the account contained classified information which concealed the full extent of the security. So the guy is a creep. He's a warmongering sociopath, always wanting to slaughter people, always wanting to hang and kill people. And here's the, here's the interesting thing. He. People who did what he did, he's always advocated for them to be either hungry from an oak tree or specific. He, he picked out a specific tree he wanted them on from, or he wanted them in prison for 176 years. Let's listen to this. This is what he's talking. What do you think of Bradley? You remember when Chelsea Manning, then Bradley Manning revealed to WikiLeaks the war crimes that America was committing? Now, nobody ever got in trouble for the war crimes that Bradley Manning, Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks revealed nobody got in trouble for those they got in trouble for. They got in trouble for telling people that America was committing war crimes. So it's, it's not a crime. So when telling people about a crime is the crime and not doing the crime, you know you're run by criminals. So United States government is pretty much criminals. And so here's what John Bolton had to say about him when he revealed the war crimes that America had been doing. What do you think of Bradley Money?

[John Bolton]

I think he committed treason. I think he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[Jimmy Dore]

What does that mean?

[John Bolton]

Well, treason is the only crime defined by our Constitution. And it says treason shall consist only of levying war against the United States or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. And he gave our enemies a lot of aid and comfort.

[Jimmy Dore]

So what should happen to him?

[John Bolton]

Well, he should be prosecuted, and if he's found guilty, he should be punished to the fullest extent possible.

[Jimmy Dore]

And what is that?

[John Bolton]

Death.

[Jimmy Dore]

You think he should be killed?

[John Bolton]

Yes.

[Jimmy Dore]

So there you go. Boy, that talk about has John Bolton heard about the new diet? That's the one where you get to eat your own words. Really slimming.

[Kurt]

I'm gonna tie a yellow rib around the old oak tree for John Bolton.

[Jimmy Dore]

So he wanted that guy to be killed. So the guy who did what he just did is doing, Accused of doing, which I'm pretty positive he did.

[Kurt]

Can I just say, Jimmy, I, I, I have to give Hillary Clinton a lot of credit because she's just as crazy and killy as John Bolton, but she had the decency and loyalty to America to burn her hard drives with acid and have a guy killed.

[Jimmy Dore]

John Bolton, on the prison sentence he believes Julian Assange should get. You want to hear it? Here's what he, here's what he thinks should happen to Julian Assange. Now, the, the thing that Glenn makes point here is that unlike Bolton, Assange isn't an American.

[Kurt]

I know.

[Jimmy Dore]

He had no duties to maintain the secrecy of classified information because he's a foreign, he's not even an American.

[Kurt]

They were all saying that, Jimmy. All of them were saying that. The guy with the suspenders on Foxy Go, he's a traitor. You know why they're saying trader? Because they're loyal to the transatlantic partnership.

[Jimmy Dore]

NATO shits.

[Kurt]

That's how they mean. They forget.

[Jimmy Dore]

So unlike John Bolton, who had a responsibility to keep those government secrets, Julian Assange, as a journalist and an Australian, not even American had no responsibility to do so. But here's what he wanted to happen to Julian Assange.

[Kurt]

Prison.

[John Bolton]

Well, I think that's a small amount of the sentence he actually deserves. He's committed clear criminal activity. He's no more a journalist than the chair I'm sitting on. The information that he divulged did in fact put many people in jeopardy. It undercut the ability of the United States to have confidential diplomatic communications, not just with other foreign governments, but in many countries with dissidents, people who even speaking to American diplomats, could find themselves in trouble. And so you know he's been complaining about his treatment over the past period of time. He's the one who sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy. Now he faces extradition to the United States. I presume he will get due process in the United Kingdom to determine whether extradition should go forward. And when he gets to the United States, he'll get due process here. And I hope he gets at least 176 years in jail for what he did.

[Jimmy Dore]

Boops. Whoopsie daisy. Boy, Bolton can't wait to treat Assange like he was a real American. And now here we are.

[Kurt]

Edward Snowden, by the way, ironically, Jimmy, those chair, that chair he spoke of is a better journalist than Kaitlan Collins, it turns out.

[Jimmy Dore]

And here's Glenn Greenwald making. Because Glenn Greenwald's very tightly intertwined with Edward Snowden, he says, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, here is the defendant, Bolton, in his own words, on what ought to be done to people who leak American secrets. Here we go.

[John Bolton]

I think it's a big mistake.

[J.D. Vance]

I don't.

[John Bolton]

I have no idea. I mean, my view is that Snowden committed treason. He ought to be convicted of that. And then he ought to swing from a tall oak tree.

[Jimmy Dore]

Oh, look, it's Malibu Kyle.

[Kurt]

Who's this little chubby cherub in front of me?

[Jimmy Dore]

Wasn't that something?

[Kurt]

Virginal cheeks.

[Jimmy Dore]

So he wanted, he wanted Edward Snowden to swing from an oak tree. He even picked out the tree, the kind of tree he wanted him swinging from. So that's. So I want to show you what they got. I want to go right to the indictment.

[Kurt]

Doesn't elon mean oak tree, Jimmy? That's how you say it in Hebrew.

[Jimmy Dore]

So it's an 18 count indictment. So former. He, he sent classified information in a group chat to his wife and his daughter, unauthorized people, while he worked at the White House and keeping similar documents at his home after he left the government. The 18 count indictment contends that Bolton regularly sent more than a thousand pages, thousand pages of diary like entries to two people related to him, his wife and his daughter, while he was handling the nation's most sensitive military, intelligence and diplomatic matters. Oh. Many of the messages contained information designated as classified up to the top secret, sensitive compartment, compartmented information level, prosecutors allege. Federal prosecutors in Maryland secured the indictment from a grand jury which met for about three hours to consider the case. Only took him three hours to say, yeah, indict that guy. Bolton, 76, served for more than a year as a national security advisor under Trump, but later drew Trump's Ire. Yeah. I wonder why. The charges against Bolton come as Trump has pressured his Justice Department. Ok, so then they got to tell you all this other stuff about, oh, he's pressuring. It doesn't have anything to do with this case. This has nothing to do with this case. Letitia James, James Comey has nothing to do with this case because this case was started by the Biden administration, as I already showed you. Glenn Thrush said in the New York Times.

[Kurt]

Can you imagine being that disliked.

[Jimmy Dore]

Attorney General Pam Bonnie and FBI Director Cash Purcell insisted Thursday that this is once here justice, blah, blah, blah. After the FBI searched Bolton's home and office in August pursuant to court issued warrants, Trump claimed to have no knowledge of it. Okay, he just said he was a bad guy. Trump says he was a bad guy. See special counsel Robert Her. So because Biden did the same thing that they accused Trump of doing and what, what Bolton did, Biden did the same thing. Biden had boxes of classified documents which, by the way, he wasn't the president when he took those boxes. He was the vice president. So the vice president doesn't have the ability to declassify top secret stuff like Trump did. So again, it's not like Trump. Again, this isn't me. This is me showing you how the Justice Department has been politicized by the Democrats first. By the Democrats first. And now they pretend that never happened because Joe Biden did the exact same thing. Here it is. Special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with amassing the highly sensitive secrets after his first term and then obstructed government efforts to reclaim them. The case against Bolton resembles in some ways the investigations of both Trump and Joe Biden for their possessing classified documents in their homes. But special counsel Robert Hur, great grandson of Ben Hur, declined to recommend charges against Biden. And you know why? He said a jury wouldn't convict Biden? Because Biden is demented.

[Kurt]

That's treason to say that.

[Jimmy Dore]

That was before everybody was saying Biden was demented. The guy who was in charge of prosecuting Biden over those classified documents said, I'm not going to prosecute him because the jury's going to say he doesn't even know what he's doing. He's a dumb old man who's demented despite tapping Bolton as a top. Okay, blah, blah, blah. OK, blah, blah. So in 2020, Bolton wanted to publish a book, but Trump's Department of Justice wanted to block that book because they said it had top secret information in it. The move to halt release of the book failed, but the judge who heard the request said Bolton had gambled with the national security of the United States by proceeding with publication of the book without the final sign off from government authorities. The judge, who was a Reagan appointee, opined at the time that Bolton had likely published classified materials and could face criminal prosecution.

[Kurt]

So they all don't like him. That's how I take this. They all don't like him. All sides of the aisle.

[Jimmy Dore]

So each of the 18 felony counts carries a maximum penalty of 10 years.

[Kurt]

That's almost about 176. 180.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yep, that's exactly right. An FBI. An FBI log of the search of Bolton's office described finding several trenches of records with classified markings, including some pertaining to weapons of mass destruction and military strikes in Syria.

[Kurt]

How much is a tranche, Jimmy?

[Jimmy Dore]

I don't know what a trench, but a tranche.

[Kurt]

A full several tranches.

[Jimmy Dore]

The indictment attempts to single Bolton to singe Bolton with these his own words by quoting public commentary he offered in recent years condemning officials involved in controversies over cavalier handing of sensitive information include the investigation into Clinton, Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and a more recent blow up over Trump's administration's national security officials use of signal chat to discuss planned military operations. So here, this is from. This is from the actual indictment. So I'll read it to you. After Bolton's time as National Security Advisor ended in 2019, Bolton's personal residence was not authorized to store classified information in physical or electronic format. Honor about September 10th of 2019, US government personnel retrieved all classified equipment and marked classified documents that were stored in Bolton's home. During that visit, Bolton was told that he could no longer store classified information at his home. At no point during Bolton's time as NSA advisor or afterwards, including when his home was decommissioned in or about September 2019, did Bolton tell the US government personnel that he had sent national defense and classified information to individuals number one and two, that's his wife and daughter, over commercial email and messaging services. Or that such information was stored on personal electronic devices and. And in personal electronic accounts belonging to or accessible by himself and or his wife or daughter. So that's what he was doing. Let me get back to the rest of this because this is pretty interesting. So on or about April 8th in 2018, the day before Bolton officially began his duties as National Security Advisor, individual one, which is either his wife or his daughter, created a group chat with Bolton and his wife or daughter on a non governmental messaging application. Now that's important because if you're going to have classified information flying around, it's got to be on a governmental messaging service because that's encrypted and it's protected from hacking. Well, he didn't. They were doing it over private email, private messaging. Individual 2 asked the group, why are we using this now? The encryption? To which individual one response, yep, why not? Bolton then responded, for diary in the future. So he was doing this so he could write a book. Honor. About April 22, 2018, Bolton sent individuals one and two again, that's his wife and daughter, via the non governmental Messaging Application, a 25 page document which describes information that Bolton learned while National Security Advisor. It's illegal. Honor. About April 22, 2018, Individual 2 sent Bolton and Individual 1amessage that stated Diary finished. Individual 1 also asked Individual 2 whether Individual 2 was going to call tonight. To which Individual 2 responded, Am I supposed to. Individual 1 then wrote, the diaries take time to write, but phone conversations take less time.

[Kurt]

That's true.

[Jimmy Dore]

On or about July 15, 2018, individual 2 sent Bolton and individual 1amessage that stated, do we get a diary today? Individual 1 responded, don't think he can do it on this trip. Bolton later added, too much going on. I've done much on Friday in London because I didn't take many notes and wanted to get it down before I forgot. So this is him writing down classified information that he's going to then share with his wife and daughter on an unsecured messaging app. You can't do that. That's illegal. Even writing down the top classified information and then taking it home is illegal. You can't write it down and then take it home. You can't do that. That's illegal.

[Kurt]

You certainly can't put it in a book before you get it approved. I know that much. If you look at what I just texted you and Steph from Politico.

[Jimmy Dore]

No.

[Kurt]

Everybody in Washington hates John Bolton from 20 20. Why did they hate him? A day after excerpts from his bombshell new book emerged excoriating President Donald Trump, the former national security adviser has managed to turn everyone against him. Republicans say he's disgruntled. And Democrats, once buoyed by Bolton's turn against Trump, now say he's unpatriotic for documenting the claims in a book instead of testifying before Congress during Trump's impeachment. So that's why they're he don't have no friends. His little stupid book pissed off everyone.

[Jimmy Dore]

On July 23, 2018, Bolton sent his wife and daughter a message that said more stuff coming a few minutes when.

[Kurt]

I send in the jokes.

[Jimmy Dore]

A few minutes later he sent them a 24 page document with which described information that Bolton learned while national security advisor. Less than three hours later, he sent his wife and daughter a follow up message that stated none of which we talk about. In response, his daughter sent a message that said sh.

[Kurt]

Sh.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's what this right there?

[Kurt]

Yeah.

[Jimmy Dore]

Individual two, probably his wife then sent a message that stated the only interesting thing is what senior US government official might have said from foreign language interpreter which you didn't tell us. Approximately two minutes later, individual one sent a message in response that stated more to come with cloak and dagger or something. So he says it's all about McCrone's.

[Kurt]

Wife'S dick, I bet.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yep, I bet. On September 23, 2018, Bolton sent his wife and daughter a 10 page document which contained information that Bolton learned while national Security advisor, including information classified up to the top secret sci levels. He's sending this to his family.

[Kurt]

I think it's heartwarming how close they are though. I mean, nobody likes this guy, but he's not divorced and his kids talk to him.

[Jimmy Dore]

Here it is. There's more to this. At some point between when Bolton left government service in 2019 and July 2021, a cyber actor believed to be associated with the Islamic Republic of Iran hacked his personal email account and gained unauthorized access to the classified and national defense information that Bolton was keeping in his account, which Bolton had previously emailed to his wife and daughter while he was the national security advisor. A representative for Bolton notified the US government of the hack, but didn't tell the government that the account contained national defense information, including classified information that Bolton had placed in the account from his time as an NSA advisor National Security Advisor. Nor did Bolton's representative tell the US Government that Bolton had shared some of that national defense information, including classified information, with individuals one and two, meaning that's his wife and kids. So that's what's actually happening. It's an innocent mistake, Kurt. Anybody, anybody could make that kind of mistake. He just forgot to turn his lanyard in, that's all. All top security figures have slipped up like this. Come on.

[Kurt]

Look, any secret you tell me, I immediately call mother.

[Jimmy Dore]

Caitlin. This is Caitlin Collins from cnn. Who loves John Bolton now because he.

[Kurt]

Hates Trump, AKA the Chair.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, yeah. Here's John Bolton's official response to this. For four decades I have devoted my life to America's foreign policy and national security. I would never compromise those goals. I tried to do that during my tenure in the first Trump administration, but resigned when it became impossible to do so. Donald Trump's retribution against me began, then continued when. But what about when Joe Biden did it? What about when the Biden administration opened the investigation into your because you wouldn't.

[Kurt]

Testify at the thing and you're reading that book and they're mad.

[Jimmy Dore]

The Room. Then Donald Trump's retribution began, then continued when he unsuccessfully tried to block the publication of my book called the Room where it happened before the 2020 election and became one of his rallying cries in his reelection campaign. But also I just showed you, the judge said that it's most likely he printed top secret stuff in that book. Now I have become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he deems to be his enemies with charges that were declined before or distort the facts.

[Kurt]

They declined. They're continuing. What is she talking about?

[Jimmy Dore]

My. My book was reviewed and approved by the appropriate experience career clearance officials. Not according to that judge who oversaw. A judge appointed by Ronald Reagan said it wasn't. When my email was hacked in 2021, the FBI was made fully aware they were not made fully aware that you had classified material in there and that you had shared that classified material over an a non governmental messaging app with your wife and daughter.

[Kurt]

They're upset about it. It's like all they're talking about in.

[Jimmy Dore]

Four years of the prior administration. After these reviews, no charges were ever filed. Then came Trump too, who embodies what Joseph Stalin's head of secret police once said. You show me a man and I'll show you the crime. Okay, this focus are not just about my discharges, are not just about his focus on my diaries, but his intensive effort to intimidate his opponents to ensure that he alone determines to talk about intimidating a deponent deponent. They made up four bullshit felony cases against Donald Trump that he had to go to court and defend himself again against the normal real estate stuff. They indicted. They, they prosecuted all his lawyers. They put his political adviser, his first, his first campaign manager. They put him in prison. They put Steve Bannon. His next political advice. They put him in. They put everybody. Roger Stone, they put everybody around Trump, including Trump, tried to put him in prison. So this is not everyone acts like, oh God, Trump is doing something different. He's following the norms that were started under the Biden administration and the Democratic Congress.

[Kurt]

That's why it won't be as challenging as the comey thing.

[Jimmy Dore]

These are Norms now, what Trump is doing. And remember what the guy at the New York Times says. There's nothing unusual about this.

[Kurt]

So don't want to read his diary, Jimmy, I gotta be honest, because I find it hilarious that he's a psychopath warmonger with a diary. He's right. Dear Diary, I think Trump is bad.

[Jimmy Dore]

It is unfair when someone targets you for something you actually did.

[Kurt]

I hate it.

[Jimmy Dore]

He did it. He did this.

[Kurt]

That's when it hurts the most, Jimmy. When I actually did it.

[Jimmy Dore]

Here's what. So Glenn Greenwald responds to this tweet by Kaitlan Collins of John Bolton's statement. He says, John Bolton spent his whole life demanding life imprisonment and even death penalty for anyone mishandling and causing a leak of classified information until he was charged with it, at which point he screamed abuse of power.

[Kurt]

Held to the oak tree.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, held to the tall oak tree. I like this. Leave it legacy Media says. Nowhere in that long dissertation does Bolton ever say he's innocent of the charges. Because he's not.

[Kurt]

What an oversight.

[Jimmy Dore]

Because he's not innocent of the charges.

[Kurt]

We forgot two important things to run it by that you're making publishing this book and to mention that you didn't do the crime so that you know to help your prosecution for that crime.

[Jimmy Dore]

And here he is trying to screw over Donald Trump for the same thing. It's actually not the same thing because again, Trump was the president. He can declassify any document he wanted. And Trump's crime scene was staged by the FBI because it was a political persecution.

[Kurt]

We'll see the could the qualifying language.

[Jimmy Dore]

So here's what he said then. This is what he said back in June of 23. If. If Trump has anything like what the complaint, what the indictment alleges, then he has committed very serious crimes. The documents Trump retained could contain the most important secrets we have directly impacting national security and the lives of security of our military and civilian population. That's what he said when it was Trump, but now it's him. He's a victim.

[Kurt]

Now it's him. He's like, come on, it's just Macron's wife's dick. It's not that big a deal.

[Jimmy Dore]

I like Anya Perampel has a great tweet. She says the John Bolton indictment would be a lot more exciting if the current Trump administration weren't running a version of his Venezuela policy on steroids. So John Bolton was the one who really wanted to overthrow Venezuela, and it was his policy to do so and install a puppet like Juan Guaido so we could then steal their oil. And she's saying it would be more exciting if Trump wasn't doing exactly what John Bolton wanted to do in the first place. It would be more exciting. But let's remember this is Michael Bolton. And the funny part about this is that Mr. Bush used to refer to John Bolton as Michael Bolton.

[Kurt]

Like in Office Space, like in the movie Office Space.

[Jimmy Dore]

Despite being a contemporary of Mr. Trump's, however, Mr. Bolton is not a member of his inner circle. He does not have the same relationship with Mr. Trump that he had with Mr. Bush, sometimes with AIDS. The president refers to him as Mike Bolton also. Apparently that's Trump used to do that. Not I got that mixed up. Not George Bush, but Trump would refer to him as Mike Bolton.

[Kurt]

Oh, it doesn't sound like a mistake. Well, he's technically, he's referring to him as a much better Bolton, but for some reason, Michael Bolton, it's like an insult even for his comeback. Like John Bolton.

[Jimmy Dore]

I like what this guy says about Bolton's mustache. He says the mustache alone should get him 10 years in federal prison.

[Kurt]

Yeah, you're talking about Stalin. Why you have a Stalin mustache?

[Jimmy Dore]

So the things that they probably aren't going to tell you on cnn, the things that people have overlooked is that it's completely different from Trump's but not different from Biden's and they didn't prosecute Biden because he was demented. And by the way, he's probably going to get convicted on this because either you have a classified document or you don't. That's it. Either you do, you have the classified document that you're not supposed to have and you're not the president who can declassify anything he wants. Oh, you do have it. You're guilty.

[Kurt]

Here's your real C mile.

[Jimmy Dore]

Did you share this with your wife and daughter? Something that is classified and it's illegal to share, especially over a non governmental messaging app. Did you do that or not? If he did it, he's guilty of. So there's very little wiggle room here. Either either they found the documents at his house and he had it, or they didn't. And I'm pretty sure they wouldn't charge him if they didn't find it. So they found it, he did it, he's guilty. And then somebody else pointed out he hasn't denied that he did it. He just pretends that he's being politically persecuted. He cries victim.

[Kurt]

The 2020 news is great because back then the Democrats already, after him. They were already Politico. Saying everybody hates John Bolton is one of the funniest things after.

[Jimmy Dore]

I know. And don't forget, there's nothing unusual about this. That's the part I can't believe it got printed in the New York Times. But that's the part that everybody's going to overlook.

[Kurt]

Tell the truth.

[Jimmy Dore]

Everybody's going to miss that this was actually started under Joe Biden's administration and that there's nothing unusual about this.

[Kurt]

Well, a court won't miss that, Jimmy. The dumb asses who watch CNN might miss it. But this is why you want to know. Even if you love John Bolton and hate Trump and blah, blah, blah, don't matter, don't you want to know the actual details of the case so you're not emotionally blindsided every time one of these things doesn't pan out where the walls are closing in on Trump and then they don't and you have a little hissy fit and take a lot of Tylenol.

[Jimmy Dore]

Now you're normal. You're more normal than my friends in Hollywood who do not want to know the, the ins and outs of anything they talk about. They just want to repeat what they hear on the tv, you know, whatever the man on the TV tells them like a real comedian would do. Just repeat whatever the man on the TV says.

[Kurt]

Homies do what the guy on the TV tells you.

[Jimmy Dore]

And that's why they don't know anything about COVID the vaccine. They don't know how the lies about the deaths from COVID or the, the trans. Nothing. They know nothing about anything. They don't know anything about the Ukraine war. They don't know anything about Syria. They don't know anything about Libya. They don't know anything about what's happening in Yemen. They don't know anything. They don't know anything about this.

[Kurt]

They don't want to know because they.

[Jimmy Dore]

Don'T want to know. They just want to hate Trump. Hey, you know, here's another great way you can help support the show is you become a premium member. We give you a couple of hours of premium bonus content every week and it's a great way to help support the show. You can do it by going to jimmy dork.com clicking on join Premium. It's the most affordable premium program in the business and it's a great way to help put your thumb back in the eye of the bastards. Thanks for everybody who was already a premium member. And if you haven't, you're missing out. We give you lots of bonus content. Thanks for your support. So they're releasing the hostages. Who is Hamas is. And I just want to remind you of these headlines. The cruelest form of torture free freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail. So who do you think gets treated worse? The people who are being held by Hamas are the people being held in Israel, the Palestinians being held in Israel, or the Israelis being held by Hamas. Turns out it's the people being held by Israel that are reserving way worse treatment than Hamas's hostages. Here's another one taken hostage by Israeli military. Freed Palestinian prisoners describe widespread torture. Freed Palestinian prisoners tell horrific grape torture in Israel detention. We all know that.

[Kurt]

They all know it. They all are proud of it. They all, they would never do that. But they're like, they'll do anything. You know, people that are pro Zionists, they all do this.

[Jimmy Dore]

Lamont this is a French newspaper says in Israel prisons, hunger and torture are ever present. This is from Israeli returns Palestinian prisoners bodies with signs of torture, mutilation and execution. So they're returning dead people, dead bodies to Hamas. And those Palestinian prisoners have signs that they were tortured, mutilated and executed. Some of them had their limbs amputated because of the torture. Israel on Wednesday returned the bodies of dozens of Palestinians abducted during the Gaza genocide showing signs of torture, mutilation and execution, as one US Based news site reported, a description consistent with the testimonies of former prisoners held by Israeli forces over the past two years. So far, Israel has returned 90 bodies dead people, with more expected to be handed over soon as part of the ceasefire agreement reached with Hamas last week. So they killed at least 90 people while they had them hostage. Who did? Israel. Not Hamas. Israel did that and they tortured them.

[Kurt]

And they shot their own escaping hostages from Hamas. So that's how they treat their own people. We think they're going to do to.

[Jimmy Dore]

The Palestinians 100% right? They shoot their own. Israel shot their own hostages, then let them go. The Gaza Health Ministry forensic team said that some of the bodies were blindfolded and bound and bore signs of torture similar to those seen on many of the living Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel on Monday. Some of the dead prisoners appeared to be victims of field executions, a war crime Israeli Defense Forces troops have allegedly committed against men, women and children alike. Furthermore, Israeli's obligation obliteration. I'm sorry. Israel's obliteration of Gaza's healthcare and medical infrastructure is making it difficult for Palestinian forensic personnel to identify the bodies returned by Israel, which are in various states of decomposition. The horrific Scenes visible on the bodies of the martyrs returned by the occupation bearing marks of torture, abuse and field executions, clearly reveal the criminal and fascist nature of the occupation army, meaning the Israeli army and their moral and human decadence this entity has reached. We call upon international rights groups, foremost among them the UN and its Human Rights Council, to document these atrocious crimes, open an urgent and comprehensive investigation into them, and bring the occupation leaders to trial before relevant international courts as they are responsible for committing unprecedented crimes against humanity in our modern history. Although warned by their Israeli captors against speaking out, Palestinians freed from Israeli imprisonment this week describe being held in a slaughterhouse rife with torture and abuse, including beatings, electrocution and being shot with rubber coated steel bullets. Palestinians imprisoned by Israeli forces, including children, have described being graped and sex assault by male and female soldiers, electrocuted, mauled by dogs, soaked with cold water, denied food and water, deprived of sleep and blasted with loud music. So they're torturing them. Dozens of detainees have died in Israeli custody, including one who died after allegedly being sodomized with an electric baton.

[Kurt]

That sounds very cartel ish, doesn't it?

[Jimmy Dore]

Yes, it sounds very cartel ish. IDF officers allegedly brought Israeli civilians into detention centers and allowed them to watch and film Palestinian prisoners being tortured. Israeli physicians who served at the notorious SDE Teamans torture prisoners also described widespread severe injuries caused by 24 hour shackling of hands and feet that sometimes required amputations. So they shackled them so hard that it cut off the blood and then they had to amputate their limbs from the torture. Hamas treatment of the Israelis it abducted during October 7th attack is more complicated with some freed captives saying they suffered torture and other abuses, while others, especially those released early during the war, said they were treated relatively well. An Israeli Defense Force soldier captured after the rest of his tank crew were killed said that although he was tortured, his captors granted his request for religious materials including a Torah. One woman even pushed back against Israeli media lies claiming she was wounded by her captors when in fact it was an Israeli airstrike that injured her. So far Hamas has returned the bodies of nine Israelis and other hostages. Israel is calling for Hamas to make all necessary efforts to find and hand over the bodies of 21 remaining dead hostages still unaccounted for. From TRT World, Here is an 85 year old Israeli hostage. She spoke after being freed by Hamas. Let's hear what she has to this was just a few weeks after October 7, so circumstances no doubt have changed. After Israeli began bombing Gaza nonstop Let's hear what she has to say. When we. When we arrived here, they told all of us that they believed in the Quran and they wouldn't hurt us and that they would provide us with the same conditions they have in the tunnels. They took all of our med. All of our. They took care of all of our needs. I'll give them credit for that. They were very courteous. They made sure we were clean, that we ate. We ate the same food that they did. Pitas with cream cheese, melted cheese, cucumbers. Here she is thanking her captors, by the way. That's what that is. There was a. There was a meal for an entire day. There she is thanking her captors.

[Kurt]

Wait, the same food they eat. So remember when that fat genius Randy Fine was like, starve them to death.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yes.

[Kurt]

While Israeli hostages are there eating the same food they eat. So that sounds like the torture. You starve in your own people.

[Jimmy Dore]

Everything is legitimate. Israeli leaders defend soldiers accused of. Accused of grape.

[Kurt]

Not saying they didn't do it. Not saying they didn't do it.

[Jimmy Dore]

Not saying they didn't do it.

[Kurt]

That's ISIS talk. I thought only the bad Muslims do that.

[Jimmy Dore]

Here's hostages reveal horror of two years in Hamas, really. Hostages were beaten, unconscious, tortured, starved, chained up inside tunnels for months by Hamas and Gaza, family members of those released on Monday have said as Israelis. As Israel continued to celebrate the return of 20 abductees, details have begun to emerge about their brutal treatment at the hands of Hamas. Anat Angriest, mother of abducted soldier Mattam angrist, told Channel 12 News that his. His son was severely abused following his capture from his tank on October 7. He remembers being beaten so badly that he lost consciousness. They covered him with black sacks and dragged him away, adding to the horror of his abuse at the hands of his jailers. Mr. Angrest also suffered repeated terrifying episodes and as a result of Israeli airstrikes, when the walls of the tunnels collapsed around him. So that's Israel killing their own prisoners again, by the way, he's not a.

[Kurt]

Hostage, he's a pow.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's right. That's called a prisoner of war.

[Kurt]

What the.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's not a hostage.

[Kurt]

The old lady was a hostage. This is a POW engaged in genocide.

[Jimmy Dore]

Many times they found themselves buried under the rubble, trying to climb out and survive the rubble of the Israeli bombs. Mr. Angrist's family already had some idea about the extent of his suffering due to the testimony of previously released hostages. They recounted how the soldier's chronic asthma and breathing troubles were exacerbated after his frequent violent interrogations by Hamas jailers. The mother of Alon Othell said he was chained in the same tunnel for Almost the entire two years he was held captive, but added that 40 days ago he was unexpectedly moved to a new tunnel located in the center of the Gaza Strip, a journey that took hours. Elkanah Bobat also spent most of his time in captivity chained in tunnels where he lost all sense of time and space. Despite this, he remembered his wedding day and demanded that he be allowed to take a shower in honor of the occasion. The Hamas guard initially refused, but then granted the request, according to reports. Eviatar, David's father, told Israeli media that his son had suffered both physical and psychological abuse during captivity. In August, Hamas released a video of him being forced to dig his own grave. His skeletal condition was compared to those of Holocaust victims and intensified calls for negotiations to be restarted on the basis that the hostages were gravely ill. He is thought to be losing sight of his right eye due to the incarceration and in arguably the most severe case of isolation. Aventon Orr was held alone for the whole two years and did not encounter any other captives until his release on Monday. He was reportedly held in tents rather than tunnels in one of the vast refugee areas of the central Gaza. He has lost between 30 and 40% of his body weight, according to reports. Kind of like how they're starving everybody in Gaza.

[Kurt]

The Holocaust. The Jews who were being murdered in the Holocaust were civilians. They weren't combatants who were engaged in genociding Germans. That was the big lie. So this is not really like the Holocaust. You're a soldier. Do you think we know Israel don't treat the foreign soldiers that well. We know that much.

[Jimmy Dore]

So this is from an Israeli newspaper. It says freed hostages say Ben gvir, which is their defense secretary. I'm pretty sure. Comments his his comments led to terrorists beating them unconscious with whips. Comments made by far right National Security Minister in Amar Ben Gurion Ben Girver, or however you say his name, Ben gvir, about Palestinian prisoners led Hamas to worsen the conditions of the hostages in Gaza, including beating them with horsewhips until they were unconscious, Channel 12 news reports, citing comments by a hostage released earlier this week. We were subjected to severe abuse every time Ben GVIR spoke out about the Palestinian prisoners, the unnamed former hostage reportedly says. Once he talked about food and they locked us in a cage and said we could eat one date and drink salt water. The freed hostage says. Once after he spoke on television, some terrorists came in with Horsewhips and beat us until some of us lost consciousness. Earlier this year, released hostages also said that Ben Gvar's behavior was led to a worsening of the conditions in which they were held.

[Kurt]

That's why he did that, because they need that.

[Jimmy Dore]

They wanted them to do that. Channel 12 notes that defense officials warned Ben Gvir on a number of occasions that his words and actions to worsen the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails could lead to the further mistreatment of those held in Gaza.

[Kurt]

Well, they should have done that because that's why he did it.

[Jimmy Dore]

Israel has returned the remains of 45 deceased Palestinians in shocking condition. Health officials say all of the bodies arrived with their hands and legs cuffed and came with numbers marking them instead of their names. Kind of. Kind of like what they did to the Jews at the Holocaust. It's weird that the Israelis doing the exact same thing. Isn't that weird?

[Kurt]

No, it's not. They live in 1948 in their head all day because it's a psychopathic golem created by maniacs.

[Jimmy Dore]

Some bodies show signs of torture and summary executions, while others have been run over with tanks. That's what Israel did to their prisoners. Very serious statement. Gaza Health Ministry Director Munir Albert's initial observations of the Palestinian bodies handed over by Israel show evidence of torture, binding, dissection. And some bodies were emptied and stuffed.

[Kurt]

With cotton like the Krampus myths of spooky Christmas in Western Europe. Jesus Christ.

[Jimmy Dore]

Imagine the outcry of bodies of Israeli hostages had signs of torture, executions, hand and handcuffing. It would be the front page of every newspaper and leading every news bulletin. But it's Palestinian bodies handed over by Israel that have those signs. So our media doesn't care.

[Kurt]

Well, I'm sure Bari Weiss will get right on it.

[Jimmy Dore]

Here is. Here's. This must be on the front page of every newspaper. It must be on every TV screen. This is one of the Palestinian bodies held hostage by Israel, returned through the International Committee of the Red Cross. This is one of the people CNN referred to as deceased. He was blindfolded, handcuffed and hanged. So his hands are still handcuffed and he was hanged and they kept his body.

[Kurt]

Do you remember early on, Jimmy, when the great Michael Rappaport. This is early on, he goes, I hate to say, but I think the hostage are probably dead. And he kept pushing, the hostages are probably already dead. Now, he's not smart enough to plan like that. That's what his controllers told him to say.

[Jimmy Dore]

That's right.

[Kurt]

Because they don't want them back alive. They never did.

[Jimmy Dore]

As corpses of Palestinian captives poured out of Israel torture dungeons showing signs of torture and even lynching, CNN's Christine Amanpour was forced by Zionist Big Brother to apologize for stating the obvious truth that Israel captives were returned home in far better condition. And Here it is. CNN's Christine Amanpour. Hostages have probably been treated better than the average Gazan. Let's listen.

[Christine Amanpour]

And I think for sure people who start to talk to the hostages who've only just been released will face find that it will take a long, long time for them to recover physically, but also mentally, it's been a terrible, terrible two years for them because not only are they there, you know, they're probably being treated better than the average Gazan because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had. Now, Hamas has given up all its leverage, by the way, by giving them all up. So that is a victory for the Israelis.

[Jimmy Dore]

There you go. And here's what Layla Al Arian says. Given the Palestinian hostages, given that Palestinian hostages like Dr. Adnan Erbush were were graped to death while others have been tortured and starved, she told the truth for the first time. As Christine Albanpour once said, be truthful, not neutral. Here, here's. So here she says. Earlier live on air, I spoke about what a day of real joy this is for Israeli families whose loved ones are finally being returned from two years of horrific Hamas captivity and for civilians in Gaza who have finally had a reprieve from two years of brutal. Let's listen to what she says now.

[Christine Amanpour]

Earlier live on air, I spoke about what a day of real joy this is for Israeli families whose loved ones are finally being returned from 22 years of horrific Hamas captivity and for civilians in Gaza who finally had a reprieve from two years of brutal and deadly war. I noted that for the hostages who are finally home, it'll take a long time for them to recover mentally and physically. But I regret also saying that they might have been treated better than many Gazans because Hamas used these hostages as pawns and bargaining chips. But that was insensitive and it was wrong from speaking to many former hostages.

[Jimmy Dore]

So she told the truth. And so if you tell the truth again, you never get in trouble for lying. You get in trouble for telling the truth.

[Kurt]

That was insensitive and wrong. So that was prepared for her. And they said, you better say this, better say this. And because she's worthless, she didn't go, fuck you, I quit. Which anybody who's not an insane person should do.

[Jimmy Dore]

And so she went out and she read this. The line that was written for her. I'm sorry, I apologize. It was insensitive for me to tell the truth on a news show. That's what you get from cnn, which is why people like us have a show. Wow. CNN couldn't get any worse. Let's see what else she had to say.

[Christine Amanpour]

Jizz and their families. Like everyone, I've been horrified at what Hamas has subjected them to over two long years. They've told me, as you've just.

[Jimmy Dore]

But you're not horrified at what has happened to the people in Gaza? The ethnic cleansing and genocide that every human rights organization says is happening? You mean like that? Under an apartheid state? You mean like that?

[Kurt]

No, she is. She takes it back, though. Because she was told her to.

[Jimmy Dore]

Yeah, she takes it back.

[Kurt]

Of course she's horrified. Who wouldn't be? But she's going to follow the rules like a real journalist.

[Jimmy Dore]

How do you spell horrified? Is that with a wh. Because she's definitely doing this for money.

[Kurt]

No, you're thinking of her old CNN series where she explores sex around the world. That's a real thing.

[Jimmy Dore]

Foreign. Hey, Become a premium member. Go to jimmy door comedy.com sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business. All the voices performed today are by the one and only, the inimitable Mike McRae. He can be found at mikemcrae.com that's it for this week. You be the best you can be and I'll keep being me. Out. Not. Freak out.

[J.D. Vance]

Not. Give it.

[Jimmy Dore]

Do not.

[Kurt]

Do not.

[Christine Amanpour]

I'm not.

[Jimmy Dore]

I'm not. I'm not.

[John Bolton]

I'm not.

[J.D. Vance]

I'm not. I'm not.

[Jimmy Dore]

Don't freak out. Do not freak out.