President Donald Trump responded Thursday to the news John Bolton has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland, telling CNN his former national security adviser is “a bad guy.”
“I didn’t know that—you’re telling for the first time, but I think he’s, you know, a bad person. I think he’s a bad guy,” Trump, responding to CNN’s Kristen Holmes on the news of Bolton’s indictment, said. “Yeah, he’s a bad guy, too bad, but that’s the way it goes, right?”
Bolton, who has been under investigation for alleged unlawful handling of classified information, becomes the third high-profile Trump political enemy to be indicted in less than a month.
He allegedly shared highly classified information with his wife and daughter over email, sources told CNN.
In a follow-up exchange, Trump said Thursday he hasn’t reviewed the case against Bolton.
“No, I haven’t, I haven’t, but I just think he’s a bad person,” Trump told CNN.
