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FBI agents attacked the home of the former national security advisor John Bolton, the home of the former national security consultant on Friday morning Donald Trump. Agents have also searched Bolton’s DC office.
According to reports, the reason for the raids was associated with an examination of the allegations that Bolton sent classified documents to his family during work in the White House in the White House in the White House New York Post. Post quoted an official from the Trump administration, who said the FBI director Kash Patel properly had the robbery.
The outlet also reported that there is still too intact searches for a controversy about its memoirs in order to determine a behavior pattern. A high -ranking US official, however, announced the post that the probe was a “clean break” from the examination in relation to Bolton’s book.
The house of the former national security advisor John Bolton in Maryland and office in Washington, DC, was searched by the FBI on August 22, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Shortly after the attack started, Patel wrote about X that “nobody is above the law … [FBI] Agents on a mission. “
The deputy FBI director Dan Bongino announced the post and wrote: “Public corruption is not tolerated.”
Bolton, which served in Trump’s first administration, was not arrested or taken into custody. In January 2025, Trump revoked his details on security approval and his secret service.
Trump was asked about the raid on Friday and said he did not know about it in advance and claimed that he had seen her on TV. The president then made his contempt for his former national security advisor clear.
“I’m not a fan of John Bolton. He is a real lowlife,” Trump told reporters. He called Bolton “no clever guy” and said: “He could be very unpatriotic.”
The national security advisor of the White House, John Bolton, on the right President Donald Trump listens when he and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speak to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on July 18, 2019 in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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The President also said that Bolton was “a very quiet person except on TV if he can say something bad about Trump”.
Vice -president Jd vance Said “Meet the Press” on Friday that “we are in the very early phases of an ongoing examination by John Bolton.” Vance refused that Bolton was oriented towards Trump’s criticism.
A source familiar with the Bolton Raid and the evidence with which she justified said Fox News Digital that “Bolton really had a little nerve to attack Trump because of his treatment of classified information, but would not give any further details.
This picture contained on August 30, 2022 in a court report by the Ministry of Justice and was partially edited by the FBI. He shows a photo of documents that were confiscated during the documents confiscated on August 8, 2022 by the search of the FBI of the then Presidential President Donald Trump Mar-Lago estate in Florida. (Ministry of Justice on AP)
Bolton criticized Trump’s handling of classified documents after FBI attacked Mar-A-Lago in 2022. Trump was later charged with 37 crimes that were expanded to 40 before the case was dropped in July 2024.
During the first administration of Trump, an investigation was started in classified documents, but later closed by the bidges. The Ministry of Justice argued that Bolton’s Memoiren 2020, “the space in which it happened” contained a classifical material and tried to block it from the publication.
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The FBI and Bolton’s office rejected it to comment on this matter.
Reporting by Axios and Fox News’ Michael Dorgan, David Spunt, Breanen Deppisch, Emma Woodhead and Brooke Singman.
