FBI raids home of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton

[themaguffin]

Bolton is a POS, but he's right about Orange Caligula. I'm not going to bother posting the propaganda comments quoted in the article, but we all know why this is happening.


https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/fbi-raid-john-bolton-trump-patel.html

[Walleye]

1. All of these things are the result of electing overgrown boys who are butt hurt

[RoeVWade]

2. Conservative Republicans being attacked by the Trump Gestapo Administration may help us unseat Trump.

I'm looking at the positive side of this. Crimes? Bolton crimes, who knows. Possibly about documents he used for his book.

[gab13by13]

3. I bet the first place they look

is the bathroom.

[Omnipresent]

4. No love for John?

I remember he was the Lawyer and ballot observer for Bush/Cheney during the Palm Beach county recount in 2000.

[tanyev]

5. Gosh, John. If only you could go back in time and find the spine to oppose Trump

BEFORE he got elected in 2016 and refuse to support his first administration. Oh, and you could have publicly supported his impeachments instead of saving it all for your book.

[underpants]

6. Seems like it's a message to others.

[Heidi]

8. This for the win.

Just as he’s trying to bring people of color and the homeless to heel in DC, he’s now doing the same to his political enemies and critics to send a message wide and far that he—the king—is not to be criticized. We don’t know what this is about but we best be aware that anyone can be accused of anything and have their lives wrecked because roughly half of the country believes every all-caps utterance of the toddler tyrant they put in charge.

[BoRaGard]

7. Kranov's Gestapo (r) is vicious

You are next, Mr. and Ms. America. The G.O.P. Gestapo will be looking under your bed to see whether you have hidden any of the Epstein files.

[Heidi]

9. Exactly. (nt)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. MaddowBlog-FBI searches home of former national security adviser John Bolton, a frequent Trump target

It’s extraordinary to see the FBI target a prominent presidential critic, suspecting him of the same wrongdoing that led to a Trump criminal indictment.

After Bolton told the public that Trump is “unfit to be president”:
- Trump tried to block his book from being published
- Trump canceled his security detail
- Trump revoked his security clearance
- and now the FBI has raided his house www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-22T12:37:56.418Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/fbi-raids-home-former-national-security-advisor-john-bolton-frequent-t-rcna226507

The escalation has now reached new heights. NBC News reported:

The FBI raided former national security adviser John Bolton’s home in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday as part of a ‘national security investigation in search of classified records,’ a source familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News. ... In a post on X early Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote, ‘NO ONE is above the law... @FBI agents on mission.’

.....What’s more, before Bolton’s book was released in 2020, Team Trump’s lawyers went to court in the hopes of derailing its publication. That effort failed and the book became a bestseller.

Three months later, Trump’s Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into whether Bolton disclosed classified information when he published his memoir. A former career official with the National Security Council later said in a court filing that Team Trump opened the criminal investigation into Bolton based on false pretenses......

That said, at face value, it’s nothing short of extraordinary to see the FBI, led by a hyperpartisan Trump loyalist, search the home of a prominent presidential critic — suspecting him of the same wrongdoing that led to one of Trump’s criminal indictments.