FBI agents Search John Bolton
The FBI agents registered Bethesda, Maryland, home of former Trump National Security Advisor, John Bolton, in relation to an investigation of their classified records, according to multiple news reports.
Katherine Faulders of ABC reported that the search was approved by a federal magistrate judge in Maryland.
Bolton told CNN that he did not know the search for the FBI, who was first informed by the New York Post, and that he would investigate him.
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The FBI agents were also seen entering the Washington building, DC, where Bolton maintains an office.
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Trump said he was not given an anticipated notice of the search for Bolton’s house.
“I don’t know. I saw him on television this morning. I’m not a fan of John Bolton; it’s a true kind of low life,” Trump said.
“It is not an intelligent guy, but it could be very antipatriotic,” he continued.
The president added that he would later receive an informative session about the search for the Department of Justice.
Bolton, who served for 17 months in the role of the national security advisor in Trump’s first mandate, has become a fierce critic of the president.
Earlier this year, Trump revoked Bolton’s secret service, as well as his security authorization.
The Department of Justice had launched a criminal investigation into Bolton during Trump’s first mandate on a book he published in 2020 entitled “The Chamber where it happened: a White House memory”, which details his time in that administration, to analyze whether it contained classified national security information. The Department of Justice had also previously tried without success to block the publication of the book.
“What he did is take classified information, and published it during a presidency,” Trump told News of Bolton in June 2020. “I think he is a criminal, and I believe, frankly, should go to jail for that.”
In June 2021, under the administration of former President Joe Biden, the Department of Justice finished investigation and eliminated a lawsuit that seeks to block former Trump official to obtain any gain of sales of his memoirs.
But CNN reported that criminal investigation has now resumed, citing a source familiar with the matter.
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, who had included Bolton in a list of enemies that described as “members of the State of Executive Branch” in his book “Government Gangsters”, published a vague message on social networks, which seemed to make reference to the raid.
“No one is above the law … @fbi agents in mission,” he said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi shared Patel’s post, added: “The security of the United States is not negotiable. Justice will continue. Always.”
Vice President JD Vance also published Patel’s statement again. Vance said the investigation is not politically motivated in an interview with Friday “Meet The Press” of NBC.
“We are investigating Ambassador Bolton, but they finally bring a case, they will determine that he has violated the law,” Kristen Welker told Moderator.
“We are going to be careful with that,” he added. “We are going to be deliberate about that, because we do not believe that we should throw people, even if they do not agree with us politically, perhaps especially if they do not agree with us politically, you should not throw people into prison. You should let the law drive these determinations, and that is what we are doing.”
But The representative Raja Krishnamorthi (D-Bill.) He said to “CNN News Central” that the search for Bolton’s house has the echoes of political remuneration.
“This is obviously a message sent to John Bolton, but it is also a message that is trying to send to other potential critics, or current critics of Donald Trump, which if he continues to criticize him … the next one can be in his list of objectives in the FBI,” said Krishnamoorthi.
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Trump had had problems with Bolton’s criticisms of his decision to sit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, as part of the president’s effort to close the war in Ukraine. Trump had also accused Bolton to make it much more difficult for him to ensure a peace agreement to end the conflict.
Meanwhile, Roger Stone, who received a forgiveness from Trump in 2020 after he was sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to Congress and obstructing the Chamber’s investigation into the possible collusion between the Trump 2016 and Russia campaign, among other serious crimes, celebrated the development.
“Good morning. John Bolton. How do you feel your home attacked at 6 in the morning?” Stone asked.