“He’s not a smart guy, but he could be a very unpatriotic guy,” President Trump told reporters of Bolton Friday morning. “We’re going to find out.”
🚨 BREAKING: The FBI has just RAIDED John Bolton’s DC-area home in a high profile national security probe
NOW we’re talking! 🔥
Agents busted down Bolton’s door around 7am this morning, in an investigation ordered by Kash Patel
Patel posted “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission”
Bolton has not been arrested and is not currently charged with any crimes, the official added.
“He’s not a smart guy, but he could be a very unpatriotic guy,” President Trump told reporters of Bolton Friday morning. “We’re going to find out.”
The raid came at the behest of Patel, with the president claiming that he had no advance knowledge of the operation.
“I know nothing about it. I just saw it this morning … I tell [Attorney General] Pam [Bondi] and I tell the group: ‘I don’t want to know, but you have to do what you have to do. I don’t want to know about it.’”
“I could know about it. I could be the one starting — and I’m actually the chief law enforcement officer — but I feel that it’s better this way.”
An investigation of Bolton was launched in 2020, but the Biden administration shut it down “for political reasons,” according to a senior US official.
Trump’s first Justice Department initiated a criminal inquiry into Bolton’s alleged disclosure of national secrets in his 2020 book, “The Room Where It Happened.”
However, officials tell The Post that the current investigation is not limited to Bolton’s book — but is part of a “larger classified leaking probe that extended into the Biden administration.”
Trump, 79, unsuccessfully fought to quash publication of “The Room Where It Happened” over its inclusion of national secrets — saying Bolton broke a non-disclosure agreement signed as a condition of his employment.
Investigators suspect that former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department shut down of the Bolton probe may have been motivated by the ex-nat sec adviser’s political opposition to Trump.
Bolton has been at odds with his old boss since Trump fired him in September 2019, regularly appearing on CNN and criticizing the president’s national security and foreign policy aims.
