Former National Security Advisor and ambassador John Bolton has been indicted on 18 counts in Greenbelt, Maryland. In response to hearing about the indictment, President Trump said, “I didn’t know that; you are telling me for the first time. But I think he’s, you know, a bad person. I think he’s a bad guy, yeah. He’s a bad guy.” Newsmax reports:
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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BREAKING: “John Bolton was just indicted by a grand jury. Do you have a reaction to that?”
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “I didn’t know that. You’re telling me for the first time! I think he’s a bad person. Too bad.”
“That’s the WAY IT GOES, RIGHT?”
“He’s a BAD person.” pic.twitter.com/QDH4TPFttA
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 16, 2025
