Bolton continues criticism of rump foreign policy following FBI raids

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August 26, 2025 at 9:44 a.m. EDT
Today at 9:44 a.m. EDT

By Patrick Svitek

Former White House national security adviser John Bolton is keeping up his criticism of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, even after the FBI raided Bolton’s home and office in one of the latest examples of Trump’s administration targeting a political opponent.

“President Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy is no more coherent today than it was last Friday when his administration executed search warrants against my home and office,” Bolton wrote in a new op-ed for the Washington Examiner that he promoted Tuesday on X.

“Collapsing in confusion, haste, and the absence of any discernible meeting of the minds among Ukraine, Russia, several European countries, and America, Trump’s negotiations may be in their last throes, along with his Nobel Peace Prize campaign,” Bolton added ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/26/bolton-criticizes-trump-policy-fbi-raid/

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1. Not that I want the neocons to get resurgent & all

but it’s time to rally around preserving democracy first and foremost, and although I can’t call them ‘friends’, I welcome any disruption from that quarter.

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5. Our job today is to build a broad anti-fascist front

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6. Bolton could be a hero!

Do I remember a photo of him circa 2000 at some election office with angry fist in air demanding a recount?

Al Gore was too gentlemanly also.

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2. Bolton concerned by lack of Secret Service protection

By David Brunnstrom

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -John Bolton, a former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump who is now a persistent critic, said on Tuesday he was concerned about the withdrawal of his Secret Service protection and criticized raids on his home and office last week.

Bolton, speaking at an online event assessing Trump's summit on Monday with the South Korean leader, was asked if he felt safe in the current environment, where the administration was at odds with his beliefs, and said that he had been the target of an Iranian assassination attempt in the past.

"And on ... the inauguration day, President Trump withdrew my Secret Service protection," he said.

"So yeah, I feel ... concerned about that, more than anything else. But you know it's the environment we operate in, and you can either just be overwhelmed by it, or keep going. So I plan to keep going" ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-critic-bolton-concerned-by-lack-of-secret-service-protection/ar-AA1LgmQe?ocid=BingNewsBrowse

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3. Good for Bolton! Don't back down!

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4. George Conway on the FBI targeting Bolton: 'This is not healthy'

by Sarah Fortinsky - 08/26/25 1:55 PM ET

Conservative lawyer George Conway condemned the recent FBI raid at the home and office of former national security adviser John Bolton, saying Americans need to “wake up” to the “authoritarianism” taking place under President Trump.

“This is not America. This is not healthy,” Conway, an outspoken Trump critic, told CNN’s John Berman in an interview Tuesday ...

https://thehill.com/national-security/5471193-george-conway-john-bolton-fbi-search/