Former Trump nationwide safety adviser John Bolton is in a Maryland courthouse this morning the place’s he is scheduled to make his first courtroom look at 11 a.m. ET after being indicted by a grand jury Thursday on fees that he allegedly unlawfully transmitted and retained categorized paperwork.
Bolton arrived on the federal courthouse earlier than 9 a.m. ET Friday.
The indictment fees Bolton with eight counts of illegal transmission of nationwide protection data in addition to 10 counts of illegal retention of nationwide protection data.
Seven of the transmissions allegedly occurred through the time when Bolton was serving at Trump’s nationwide safety adviser in 2018 and 2019, whereas one other doc was allegedly despatched by Bolton simply days after President Donald Trump eliminated him from the administration in September of 2019.
The indictment accuses Bolton of abusing his place as nationwide safety adviser by sharing “greater than a thousand pages” of data in “diary-like entries” about his day-to-day actions with two recipients recognized solely as “Particular person 1” and “Particular person 2,” who prosecutors say are Bolton’s kinfolk.
Former White Home nationwide safety adviser John Bolton arrives at U.S. District Court docket for the District of Maryland, in Greenbelt, Maryland, October 17, 2025.
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Sources informed ABC Information that the kinfolk referred to within the indictment as ‘Particular person 1’ and ‘Particular person 2’ are Bolton’s spouse and daughter.
The indictment comes on the heels of the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Lawyer Basic Letitia James as Trump continues what critics name a campaign of retribution in opposition to his perceived political foes.
Federal brokers in August searched Bolton’s Maryland residence and Washington, D.C., workplace, associated to allegations that Bolton possessed categorized data.
