Question for DU, if the FBI is going after Bolton for having records

[Peacetrain]

(that is my only guess right now) can we retroactively go after Trump when his term of office is over. And finally hold him accountable. No a President cannot shoot someone on 5th ave and never be held accountable for it...No one is above the law.. (ahem)

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. What makes you think his term is ever going to be over?

At what point is everyone going to realize that these people are actual, for real, fascists?

Fascists don’t leave, you can’t vote them out and they don’t care if you wave signs at them.

They have to be removed forcibly.

I know people don’t like it but this only ends one way.

[Lovie777]

2. Attacking Republicans ain't gonna go well........................

[karynnj]

10. They attacked both Liz Cheney, conservative royalty,and Adam kinzinger

It seems MAGA lumps the GWB years with liberals!

[bucolic_frolic]

3. There is no day of reckoning, narcissists always escape.

But I do wonder if Bolton has some of the *same* records that Donnie held. The Bolton defense might question why sauce for the goose isn't sauce for the gander.

[gab13by13]

7. Bolton knows a lot,

His book title says it, "In The Room."

There was no good reason to raid Bolton's house, the raid just sent him a message, and sent everyone else who wants to cross dear leader a message.

[rampartd]

11. bolton's defense is "trump declassified them with his super powers."

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Immunity is out of the jar and it's spreading!!

There will be no crime when Trump gets done with us because all crime will be legal!

[Jersey Devil]

4. I see going after Bolton as a pretext to going after Democrats

They're going to say, "See, we went after a Republican first, so how can you say it's all political" as they place Adam Schiff, Barack Obama and other Dems in handcuffs.

[gab13by13]

5. "The reasons they gave for going after Bolton are not relevant," Marc Elias.

Krasnov already went after Bolton for what he wrote in his book and the courts found nothing.

Krasnov has an enemies list and that is the reason, no other reason is applicable.

[Peacetrain]

6. The Trump Revenge Tour?

I was wondering about that myself..

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Priorities FBI should re-target

Just-Us ca. August 2022:

[gab13by13]

9. Remember all the people who said Garland had to wait?

And wait he did, 11 months.

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Weird, that advice.

President Biden set the pace and direction. As an ethical President, he must have believed Congress and the Supreme Court were likewise immune to treason-level corruption. He was wrong.

You see this, gab?

The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court

We need FBI to arrest ALL the traitors -- that is anyone who took the oath and now are loyal to the orange traitor.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. 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.