The Revenge Tour: FBI Raids John Bolton's Home!

An awkward moment for warhawk.

Former National Security Adviser under Donald J. Trump’s first administration had his home raided by the feds.

John Bolton, a former UN Ambassador under George W. Bush and prominent critic of Trump after leaving the White House is under federal watch.

Bolton was not detained and has not been charged with any crimes, said the person, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation by name and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

Messages left with a spokesperson for Bolton and the White House were not immediately returned. A lawyer who has represented Bolton had no immediate comment.

The Justice Department also had no comment, but leaders appeared to cryptically refer to the search of Bolton’s home in a series of social media posts Friday morning.

FBI Director Kash Patel, who in a 2023 book he wrote included Bolton in a list of “members of the Executive Branch Deep State,” posted on X: “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission.” Attorney General Pam Bondi shared his post, adding: “America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always.”

Bolton is a warhawk and Zionist is no ally of the Democrats or progressive agitators.

He is a conservative who is fed up with Trumpism.

At the authorization of FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the FBI and Montgomery County Police carried out a no knock at the Bethesda, Maryland residence of Bolton.

Trump vows to go after critics. John Bolton was one of them.

The allegations of classified documents being taken from the National Security Administration without authorization has the FBI involved in this early morning surprise.

Trump has publicly attacked Bolton in the past for his criticism. Bolton did not endorse Trump in 2020 and 2024. He did not endorse Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.

This also comes as Trump launched attacks on his former FBI directors James Comey and Christopher Wray. He also targeted former CIA directors John Brennan and Gina Haspel.

The search of Bolton’s home comes as the Trump administration has taken steps to examine the activities of other perceived adversaries of the Republican president, including by authorizing a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. Officials are also conducting mortgage fraud investigations into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump and his company, and ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith faces an investigation from an independent watchdog office. Schiff and James have vigorously denied any wrongdoing through their lawyers.

In an ABC interview earlier this month, Bolton was asked about whether he was worried about the Trump administration taking action against him. Bolton said Trump had “already come after” him by taking away his security detail, and he added: “I think it is a retribution presidency.”

Bolton served as Trump’s third national security adviser for 17 months and clashed with him over Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea. He faced scrutiny during the first Trump administration over a book he wrote about his time in government that officials argued disclosed classified information, but the Justice Department in 2021 abandoned its lawsuit and dropped a separate grand jury investigation.

Bolton’s lawyers have said he moved forward with the book after a White House National Security Council official, with whom Bolton had worked for months, said the manuscript no longer contained classified information.

On his first day back in office this year, Trump revoked the security clearances of more than four dozen former intelligence officials, including Bolton. Bolton was also among a group of former Trump officials whose security details were canceled by Trump earlier this year.

Imagine getting a no knock warrant at 7:00 am.

Bolton’s scathing book, “The Room Where It Happened,” portrayed Trump as grossly ill-informed about foreign policy and said he “saw conspiracies behind rocks, and remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House, let alone the huge federal government.”

Trump responded by slamming Bolton as a “crazy” war-monger who would have led the country into “World War Six.”

Bolton served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush and also held positions in President Ronald Reagan’s administration. He had considered running for president in 2012 and 2016.

In 2022, an Iranian operative was charged in a plot to kill Bolton in presumed retaliation for a January 2020 U.S. airstrike that killed the country’s most powerful general. Bolton had by then left the Trump administration but tweeted, “Hope this is the first step to regime change in Tehran.”

All of this is a distraction from the Jeffrey Epstein files and the Israeli who fled the U.S. after being caught in a child sex sting.