President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, could potentially be indicted as early as next week, according to an MSNBC news report on Friday.
Citing two unnamed “sources,” MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace announced that Bolton is expected to be the subject of a complaint next week, and said the Acting U.S. Attorney in Maryland “is moving forward quickly to seek criminal charges against Bolton.”
The charges reportedly relate to claims that Bolton improperly kept classified information in his Maryland home.
Bolton, 76, briefly served as Trump’s national security advisor in the first Trump administration, from April 2018 until Trump fired him on September 10, 2019. He later turned into a staunch Trump critic, and has written a “tell-all” book, titled, “The Room Where It Happened.”
The first Trump administration had reportedly opened an investigation in 2020 about “Bolton’s alleged use of a private email to send classified national security documents to his wife and daughter from his work desk before his dismissal by Trump in September 2019.”
The Biden administration closed the investigation in 2021, but now the new Trump administration has reopened it.
Looks like Bolton is about to be indicted soon
— Dennis Michael Lynch (@TrustDML) October 10, 2025
In another news segment on MSNBC, additional details were released, and it was announced that Bolton may be hit with charges very soon.
WATCH BELOW:
BREAKING: It’s being reported that Former NSA Bolton is likely to be INDICTED early next week!
They might file a formal complaint directly with the court instead of approaching a Grand Jury. Even MSDNC know’s that Bolton is likely GOING TO PRISON!
Lock them ALL up! pic.twitter.com/O2jnueAumi
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) October 10, 2025
The FBI conducted a raid on Bolton’s home on August 22, and seized multiple items, including three computers, two iPhones, and boxes of documents.
During the raid, agents also confiscated two USB drives, a hard drive, four boxes of “printed daily activities,” “typed documents in folders labeled ‘Trump I – IV’” and a white binder labeled: “statements and reflections to allied strikes.”
JUST IN: Items seized from Bolton’s home by FBI include
-A “white binder labeled “statements and reflections to allied strikes.”
-Typed documents in folders labeled Trump I-IV
-Phones, a hard drive, USB drives, computers.https://t.co/yV9AwMxlpC pic.twitter.com/lgpqk8knkM— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 4, 2025
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