John Bolton , a former national advisor to President Donald Trump and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations , was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Maryland on charges of mishandling classified information .

Bolton, 76, is the third high-profile Trump foe in recent weeks to be criminally charged after extensive criticism by the president.

The 26-page indictment in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt charged the Republican with eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information.

Bolton allegedly shared classified information with two relatives while he was Trump's national security advisor from April 2018 through September 2019, and kept such information at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, after

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