Trump Adviser-Turned-Foe John Bolton Indicted in Maryland

Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Maryland on charges related to mishandling of classified information.

Bolton is said to have shared extremely sensitive documents dealing with national security matters through an AOL email account that he operated personally following his appointment in the first Trump administration.

Bolton’s home was raided by the FBI in August. 

The 26-page indictment accuses Bolton of a total of 18 counts of unlawfully retaining national defense information and unlawfully transmitting national defense information. Bolton, 76, could face decades in prison if convicted of just some of the charges.

The indictment contends that Bolton “abused his position as national security adviser by sharing with family members more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities.”

Bolton became an ardent critic of President Donald Trump after he was fired in September 2019 as the president’s national security adviser during his first term. He earned a reported $2 million advance for his political memoir discussing his time in the Trump White House. The Justice Department argued before a federal judge that the book contained sensitive information that could hurt national security.

Bolton previously served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush. 

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