Bolton was a long-time AEI senior fellow before joining the Trump administration; the post-administration return was a re-instatement rather than a fresh hire — the canonical 'institutional holding pattern' pattern for senior Republican foreign-policy alumni.
No statutory-violation flags recorded against this transition.
No other documented transitions on file for this entity.
Open the John Bolton dossier for connections, donations, and other ledger rows on the same entity. Open the American Enterprise Institute dossier for everyone else who's revolved through that destination.
https://www.goblinhouse.net/revolving-door/10Goblin House. "John Bolton: prior employer → American Enterprise Institute" (revolving-door transition). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 18, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/revolving-door/10.Sourced from public records and content-hashed; verify via /attestation, standard at /methodology.