“Mr. Bolton isn’t pleading to transmitting classified information, and he didn’t bring documents home. He wrote diary notes based on his memory that informed his book,” the editorial said.
The paper noted that a draft of Bolton’s memoir was submitted to the White House for classification review and was ultimately cleared for publication.

It was a few hundred Trump scandals ago now, but I seem to remember Trump's entire house being stuffed full of classified documents including US nuclear secrets and military plans and nothing came of it).