Trump's Former National Security Adviser John Bolton Indicted

<script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="68f16448e4b0ab08d3197f17">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"24799d16-9a7d-45f6-b621-428ddc12e76f"}).render("68f16448e4b0ab08d3197f17");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>John Bolton, a former national security adviser turned <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/john-bolton-rips-trump-in-first-op-ed-since-fbi-raid_uk_68ae9560e4b06cda8b4b2871">vocal critic</a> of President Donald Trump, was <a href="https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2025/10/16/68f15d08e4b0ab08d31978d6.pdf">indicted</a> by a federal grand jury in Maryland on eight counts of transmission of national defence information and 10 counts of unlawful retention of national defense information.</p><p>According to the indictment, from April 2018 to September 2019, Bolton shared over 1,000 pages of “information about his day-to-day activities” as national security adviser in “diary-like entries” with two members of his family; reportedly, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/john-bolton-grand-jury-maryland" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNN</a>, Bolton’s wife and daughter. Some of the entries allegedly includ