Bolton has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents. He’s the third longtime target of President Donald Trump to be charged in a month.

Ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton has been charged in a federal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information

The US Justice Department has charged John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Donald Trump during his first term, over allegedly mishandling classified documents.

Mr. Bolton, a Trump aide turned critic, is part of a string of presidential foes to become prosecutorial targets. But his case gained momentum in the Biden administration.

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton listens to a question from a student at the John F. Kennedy Jr Forum at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

The president’s former national security adviser is the latest of his critics to face prosecution by the Justice Department.

Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has been charged in a federal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland, according to two sources.