FBI agents executed raids on John Bolton's Maryland home and Washington, D.C. office as part of a classified documents probe, alongside an early-morning social media post from FBI director Kash Patel stating "NO ONE is above the law...@FBI agents on mission." John Bolton was fired in September 2019 and authored the 2020 book The Room Where It Happened, which criticized Donald Trump's foreign-policy knowledge and prompted a DOJ investigation into possible unlawful disclosure of classified information that was later closed under President Joe Biden. Donald Trump threatened Bolton, canceled his Secret Service detail, and publicly disparaged him. Sources close to Bolton describe the raids as political retribution. A separate classified-documents case against Donald Trump was assigned to Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon, dismissed on a theory regarding special counsels, and the Department of Justice later dropped the appeal after Trump took office.
Early this morning, FBI director Kash Patel cheekily posted on social media "NO ONE is above the law...@FBI agents on mission" as raids were conducted on the Maryland home and Washington, D.C. office of John Bolton, Donald Trump's national security adviser in his first term. The raid was reportedly related to a classified documents probe. Apropos of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL, since Bolton was fired in September 2019, he's been a thorn in Trump's side.
Bolton's 2020 book "The Room Where It Happened," was sharply critical of Trump's lack of knowledge on all things foreign policy-related. Trump threatened to jail Bolton over the book, and the DOJ launched an investigation into Bolton over the possibility that he "unlawfully disclosed classified information" in said book. That investigation was closed under President Joe Biden. Trump also lashed out at the media for "constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton."
In any sane judicial system, Donald Trump himself would have stood trial for his handling of classified documents after his loss in the 2020 presidential election. But the case against Trump was assigned to Trump-appointed district judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed the case last summer on the, ermmm, novel theory that special counsels are somehow illegal. The dismissal was on appeal to the Eleventh Circuit when Trump took office, after which the Department of Justice dropped the appeal.
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