# US president Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, has been criminally indicted by the Justice Department. According to a 26-page indictment, the 76-year-old faces eight counts of transmitting national defence information and ten counts of retaining national defence information. Prosecutors accuse him of illegally transmitting top secret information about the US national defence using his personal email and other messaging apps. Bolton says he is a victim of Trump’s weaponisation of the Justice Department.
Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton indicted