From the New York Post: FBI agents raided the Maryland home and Washington, DC office of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton Friday morning in a high-profile probe of allegations that he sent “highly sensitive” classified documents to his family from a private email server while working in the White House.
Federal investigators went to Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post. Agents later went to Bolton’s office in downtown DC, but did not enter until a judge signed a warrant for that location late Friday morning.
“NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” Patel said in a cryptic post to X shortly after the raid began.
Bolton has not been arrested and is not currently charged with any crimes, the administration official added.
The report explains that, according to a senior official, the first Trump administration had opened an investigation in 2020 about “Bolton’s alleged use of a private email to send classified national security documents to his wife and daughter from his work desk before his dismissal by Trump in September 2019.”
The Biden administration closed the investigation in 2021, but now the new Trump administration has reopened it.
The senior official told the NY Post, “While Bolton was a national security adviser, he was literally stealing classified information, utilizing his family as a cutout.”
Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge announced Friday morning:
“I understand that @FBIDirectorKash has reopened a high profile National Security case involving former national security adviser John Bolton that was shut down by the Biden administration.
“I’m told @fbi raids are being conducted and it involves government records. FBI declined to comment. A source familiar with the matter said it is a national security investigation involving classified documents and potential leaks.”
Developing:
I understand that @FBIDirectorKash has reopened a high profile National Security case involving former national security adviser John Bolton that was shut down by the Biden administration.
I’m told @fbi raids are being conducted and it involves government records.…
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) August 22, 2025
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wrote in a post on X, “John Bolton has done a lot of damage to the life, liberty and treasure of so many Americans. If he also is found to have broken the law regarding national security, it will be some small form of justice for the evil he has perpetrated over the years.”
John Bolton has done a lot of damage to the life, liberty and treasure of so many Americans. If he also is found to have broken the law regarding national security, it will be some small form of justice for the evil he has perpetrated over the years.
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 22, 2025
Former Trump advisor Roger Stone mockingly wrote, “Good morning. John Bolton. How does it feel to have your home raided at 6 o’clock in the morning?”
Good morning. John Bolton. How does it feel to have your home raided at 6 o’clock in the morning?
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) August 22, 2025
FLASHBACK: Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza posted an old MSNBC interview with Bolton and wrote, “John Bolton was really enthusiastic about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. “No one is above the law.” I wonder if he feels the same way about today’s FBI raid on his house.”
John Bolton was really enthusiastic about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
“No one is above the law.”
I wonder if he feels the same way about today’s FBI raid on his house. pic.twitter.com/hsBPGzJbak
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 22, 2025
D’Souza mocked Bolton again by posting another old video of him during a CBS interview, as he gave advice on how to respond to an FBI raid, at the time Trump’s home was raided.
John Bolton offers the best advice on how we should respond to an FBI raid.
Let’s all learn from John Bolton on this! pic.twitter.com/OXapGAoncs
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 22, 2025
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