President Donald Trump said Thursday he was unaware that John Bolton, the national security adviser in his first term, had been indicted but called the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations a “bad guy.”
A federal grand jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, earlier Thursday indicted Bolton on 18 counts — eight for transmission of national defense information and 10 for retention of national defense information.
Prosecutors alleged that while serving as Trump’s national security adviser, Bolton shared “more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities” with two unauthorized individuals.
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