"That formulation makes it sounds more like a personalized grievance against a fierce Trump critic rather than a dispassionate probe of a particular violation of the law, it began before characterizing the probe which is suspected to be an effort to relitigate complaints investigated five years ago that drafts of Bolton's June 2020 memoir allegedly containing classified information (excised before publication) were shared with people not cleared to read them as petty and vindictive."
"Pro-Trump voices have argued that retributive uses of lawfare are fair game they did it to Trump, after all. This is a dangerous way to think about the coercive power of government, but it also makes little sense when applied to Bolton. He is a lifelong conservative and a former Trump official long despised by Democrats and the left. While Democrats have found his barbed critiques of Trump useful in recent years,"
A federal investigation targets John Bolton amid statements that the administration has a broad concern about him. The probe is portrayed as personalized and vindictive rather than a dispassionate legal investigation. Authorities are suspected of seeking to relitigate five-year-old complaints about drafts of Bolton's June 2020 memoir that allegedly contained classified material later excised. Some pro-Trump voices justify reciprocal lawfare, but that rationale risks abuse of government coercive power and is incongruous given Bolton's conservative background and former service in the Trump administration. Conservative commentators condemned a recent raid on Bolton's home and office.
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