Patel’s FBI raids John Bolton’s home in high-profile national security probe
By: Caitlin Doornbos (New York Post)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
FBI agents raided the DC-area home of President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning in a high-profile national security probe, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Federal agents busted into Bolton's house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post.
"NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission," he said in a cryptic post to X shortly after the raid began.
The probe — which is said to involve classified documents — was first launched years ago, but the Biden administration shut it down "for political reasons," according to a senior US official.
Bolton has previously been accused of including classified information in his 2020 book, "The Room Where It Happened."
President Trump fought to quash its publication over its inclusion of national secrets — saying Bolton broke an NDA signed as a condition of his employment — but was ultimately unsuccessful.
His first-term Justice Department opened an inquiry into the book in September 2020.
The ex-Trump adviser has been at odds with his old boss since, regularly appearing on cable news criticizing the president's national security and foreign policy.
It comes a day after Patel revealed former FBI Director James Comey had authorized leaks of classified documents "while misleading Congress" just before the 2016 elections.
Patel has pledged to rid the federal government of corruption and expose cover-ups.
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This is going to be interesting.
Right, because if Patel makes a claim it must be true but all those guys in his job before him can't be trusted because they aren't Trump loyalists.
So far, we have Patel accusing Comey of authorizing leaks and misleading congress but not actually showing us the documents he claims proves this. There are accusations against Bolton, Obama, Brennan, Clapper, just about anyone who ever dared doubt their Fuehrer is being targeted. And the evidence against them? Hearsay, unfounded claims, redacted documents that don't give full context and a whole load of conspiracy theory coupled with partisan rhetoric. No doubt Goebbels would be very proud of the Trump administration.
There is a visible similarity between this news and what happened on Jan 6th.
Trump claimed the election was stolen from him and his followers by and large believed it, solely based on his word.
Same thing with the "investigations" of Comey, Brennan, Bolton, etc. Trump says it and they believe it.
Thing is Trump announced his intentions to go after these people before he knew a single thing about any possible evidence, just like "Stop The Steal".
John Bolton went on an NPR show yesterday being critical of the Ukraine negotiations , and also said similar on twitter, and the next day his house is raided.
Conservatives don't care about evidence, they want one thing and one thing only, confirmation bias. They want to be told they are right and what they believe is true regardless of the actual truth. They want to have their ears tickled, and Trump gives them exactly what they want, just like every authoritarian despot before him. They gain power by telling their base that they (the base) are special, they're the best, they deserve better than whatever they're getting now and the despot can give it to them. And of course, those folk who are excessively greedy, self-absorbed and have a history of believing themselves superior just love that message and throw their support behind the despot. Then, later, when they're sitting there in Nuremberg on trial they claim they didn't know anything and they never supported the Gestapo rounding up the Jews, gays, disabled and anyone who wasn't a rightwing conservative to be put in concentration camps and eventually disposed of. It's not their fault! /s
It's cute you haven't been paying attention to that. Read the documents. Here's a start point.
And here you all supported Meuller's "report" with all the redactions and conspiracy theories. Just stop with the hypocrisy.
Did already and nothing that was unredacted could or should be seen as criminality on any of their parts. There is NOTHING I have read in there that even hints at knowingly falsifying any reports or data, and the fact that much of the report remains redacted also means that some sections that conservatives are seizing on as supposed criminality are without the surrounding information context due to its redactions. It's going to be funny watching all you conservatives lose your fucking minds when not a single person you're accusing is found guilty of anything, they likely won't even see a courtroom because this is such a fucking stretch.
I wonder if the agents spread documents all over the place and took pictures of them marked "classified" like they did at the secure location at Mar-a-Lago?
OR................searched his wife's underwear drawer like they did Melania's............
Nope. Though, I think Bolton wishes there was such a drawer.
You mean mishandling classified material like they did at Mar-a-Largo?
Didn't they do a great job in arranging those files on the floor and taking a picture of them?
Background:
"The Justice Department sued Bolton in 2020 i n an effort to block the publication and sale of his book "The Room Where it Happened," which was a damning account of his time serving as Trump's national security advisor from 2018 to 2019, during Trump's first term in the White House. The lawsuit was filed during Trump's last year of that term.
A Justice Department lawyer told a judge that year that the book was "a flagrant breach of" Bolton's agreement not to write about classified matters.
The department dropped the lawsuit in June 2021, five months after Biden took office."
FBI raids home of John Bolton, former Trump national security advisor
That's not surprising.
AKA Garland's corrupt department.
Hilarious.
vic posted this
What is that? , oh yeah, Maralago.
You make is seem as Vic tried to play that off as Bolton's house.
Yes, it's Mara-Largo. The place the feds mishandled classified material.
good thing Trump never did, huh...?
Or Biden. Or Clinton. Or Bolton
‘good thing Trump never did, huh...?’
Being in a secure location in your home is much better than in a cardboard box in your garage next to your Corvette.
A Corvette that Crackhead drives - did it contain any of the documents?
The "Shadow" knows.
Fact check: The article isn't about Mar-a-Largo.
Vic made a comment about Maralago. I believe the rules are we are allowed to respond to or comment on other members comments on this page. .
Why would you want to bring up "other stuff" not pertinent to the topic or is that the new discussion method?
Vic made a "comment" about the raid on Maralago, and I posted something about that raid. Go complain to Vic for changing the topic if that is what you are trying to say.
Of which you did not do. Vic's comment was 2.2.1. You started a whole other, off topic, thread.
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Then take up your intentional "Off Topic" comment with Perrie and explain why you feel it's necessary to broad brush everything so you can denigrate Trump.