Trump DOJ Has FBI Search John Bolton’s Home

The “retribution” president’s latest lawfare sortie is a Friday morning FBI raid of the Washington, D.C.–area home of John Bolton, his former national security adviser and, ever since, a harsh Trump critic.

This appears to arise out of the feud over Bolton’s book, The Room Where It Happened (2020), about his time in the Trump administration. Trump fired Bolton in September 2019, and Bolton rushed to get the book out — which required a classified information review by the Trump-45 intelligence community — prior to the 2020 election. The book depicted Trump as incompetent and unfit for the presidency. It is very lengthy and includes quotations from conversations about highly sensitive topics — crossing into the area of what in intel-speak is referred to as information “born classified.”

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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The “retribution” president’s latest lawfare sortie is a Friday morning FBI raid of the Washington, D.C.–area home of John Bolton, his former national security adviser and, ever since, a harsh Trump critic.

This appears to arise out of the feud over Bolton’s book, The Room Where It Happened (2020), about his time in the Trump administration. Trump fired Bolton in September 2019, and Bolton rushed to get the book out — which required a classified information review by the Trump-45 intelligence community — prior to the 2020 election. The book depicted Trump as incompetent and unfit for the presidency. It is very lengthy and includes quotations from conversations about highly sensitive topics — crossing into the area of what in intel-speak is referred to as information “born classified.”

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.