Jacob Fischler

(States Newsroom) A federal grand jury indicted former National Security Advisor John Bolton, a one-time staffer to President Donald Trump who turned publicly against the president by the end of his first term, on charges he mishandled classified information.

The 18-count indictment in district court in Maryland accuses Bolton of wrongfully storing and sharing classified documents.

“Bolton abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor—including information relating to the national defense which was classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level—with two unauthorized individuals,” the indictment reads.

Both unauthorized individuals were related to Bolton

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