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wherever you listen to podcasts. I think he's a bad guy. yeah, he's a bad guy.

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton was indicted.

That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell.

It's Friday, October 17th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

John Bolton is the third long-time target of President Donald Trump to be federally charged in a month.

He is a former national security advisor to Trump who has become one of the president's fiercest critics.

Yesterday, a federal grand jury in Maryland indicted him on charges of

mishandling classified and sensitive material. The indictment charged Bolton with 18 counts

of transmitting or retaining national defense information. If he's convicted, the charges

each carry a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

The indictment alleges Bolton shared more than a thousand pages of diary-like updates

detailing his sensitive work in 2018 and 2019, with two relatives who were helping him with a book he

published in 2020.

You already heard what Trump thinks about him at the top of the show.

At a White House event yesterday afternoon,

he said his former national security officer was a bad guy.

In a statement, Bolton maintained that as a career public servant,

he would never compromise America's foreign policy or national security.

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