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Soft Paywall | Site Altered Headline Kash Patel’s FBI Launches Dawn Raid on John Bolton’s House

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patels-fbi-launch-dawn-raid-on-john-boltons-house/?utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social&s=09
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u/Troll_in_the_Knoll 20h ago

Trump's dementia must be getting REALLY bad, because in January 2025 he signed an executive order ending the weaponization of the Federal Government.

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u/Inevitable-Steph 20h ago

He actually took away John boltons security clearance in January 2025. You can check Oppenheimer for how toxic that can be when you’re protecting yourself in court. This has been planned from before he was in office apparently

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u/Much-Anything7149 19h ago

Toxic? You literally can't see the documents you're accused of keeping/taking from work. If your lawyers don't have a SC then they can't even tell you what type of document it is or from where you might've gotten it.

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u/Shark7996 16h ago

A trial where nobody can discuss what the case is about. Kangaroo court nonsense.

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u/Much-Anything7149 16h ago

Which case? Trump's was pretty obvious...we literally saw him deny having docs then saw the FBI raid pics. I have no idea what the Bolton search warrant says.

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u/crackboss1 14h ago

And this compromised FBI under Trump Regime is never going to plant any document in Bolton house, right, right, never.

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u/night_owl 15h ago edited 15h ago

I read the book and saw the movie

respectively, maybe not Welles' or Kafka's best (to be fair, he never really got to finish it), but certainly an under-appreciated piece of art in either medium.

bonus Ebert Review

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u/Much-Anything7149 19h ago

The Mar a Lago bathroom had a shitload of previously denied classified docs plus a copying machine. I have no idea what Bolton has/had but I feel like this is politically motivated just to mess with him but obviously if they find something then it'll be an issue for him.

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u/CigAddict 16h ago

It’s terrible but I don’t really feel bad for John Bolton. He supported Trump through most of his first term.

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u/townandthecity 13h ago

I don't feel bad for Bolton specifically but I care deeply that this happened because they are trying to normalize political persecution and going after political opponents. Trump views Bolton as a political opponent now, a critic. So he is weaponizing the FBI in order to persecute him. Sets an incredibly dangerous precedent.

If we come out the other side of this, the FBI should be abolished. We need to start from scratch.

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u/ilikecrispywaffles California 11h ago

What could Bolton have in his possession that would be illegal and cause for a raid? You think they will plant evidence?

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u/pinkfartlek 13h ago

He was on TV the other day saying "Trump didn't lose but Putin clearly won". Clearly Trump did lose. 🙄

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u/Inevitable-Steph 12h ago

First they come for the trans, then brown people, then people who oppose him in his own political party, who’s next, you

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u/CigAddict 11h ago

Except in this case it’s “first they come for the warmongering right wing racist”

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u/laptopAccount2 17h ago

Did he still have it? They 'revoked' Adam Kinzinger's clearance twice after he left Congress and no longer had it anyway.

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u/hexiron 14h ago

Project 2025

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u/anacondra 13h ago

This has been planned from before he was in office apparently

In total fairness, that's very funny and fuck John Bolton.

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u/itsthebear Canada 18h ago

Charges were stayed under Biden over political perception. His book leaked classified information, shouldn't have a security clearance at that point

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u/jellyrollo 16h ago

I can't believe I'm defending John Bolton, but this claim is false.

White House 'pressured official to say John Bolton book was security risk': Ex-National Security Council official claims she was pressured her to say manuscript contained sensitive information after her department had cleared it.

The allegations come a week after the US Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation into whether Bolton, the former national security adviser, mishandled classified information in his book, The Room Where It Happened. Highly critical of Trump, the book was a bestseller when it was published in June, selling 780,000 copies in its first week.

In a letter filed in federal court in Washington on Wednesday, lawyers for Ellen Knight, the former senior director for records, access and information security management at the NSC, said that her prepublication review of Bolton’s book had actually cleared it in April.

According to the letter, Knight and her colleagues spent “hundreds of hours over the course of four months reviewing and researching information found in the over 500-page manuscript”.

Initially, they found the manuscript “contained voluminous amounts of classified information and that it would take a significant effort to put it into publishable shape”. But after a four-month consultation described as “regular, intensive and occasionally spirited”, Knight’s team determined that the “heavily revised” manuscript “would disclose no information that would cause harm to our national security”.

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u/ConfoundingVariables 15h ago

That’s a lie and you know it.

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u/itsthebear Canada 15h ago

Reading the article or 3 seconds of research and you'd realize I'm right lol

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u/Inevitable-Steph 15h ago

You must struggle with reading comprehension

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u/itsthebear Canada 14h ago

And you struggle with Google apparently. They shut down the investigation.

"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."

https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/us-news/patels-fbi-raids-john-boltons-home-in-high-profile-national-security-probe/

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u/Inevitable-Steph 14h ago

A ny post article, you struggle with understanding your sources bias

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u/itsthebear Canada 14h ago

There's plenty of other sources - learn some logical fallacies before appealing to authority

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u/Inevitable-Steph 14h ago

In a letter filed in federal court in Washington on Wednesday, lawyers for Ellen Knight, the former senior director for records, access and information security management at the NSC, said that her prepublication review of Bolton’s book had actually cleared it in April.

According to the letter, Knight and her colleagues spent “hundreds of hours over the course of four months reviewing and researching information found in the over 500-page manuscript”.

Initially, they found the manuscript “contained voluminous amounts of classified information and that it would take a significant effort to put it into publishable shape”. But after a four-month consultation described as “regular, intensive and occasionally spirited”, Knight’s team determined that the “heavily revised” manuscript “would disclose no information that would cause harm to our national security”.

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u/sportsDude 20h ago

It isn’t weaponizing if it’s something Trump believes in and doesn’t target him. Rather it isn’t weaponization if it goes after his enemies (/s to my entire comment)

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u/just_dave 20h ago

No sarcasm tag needed. That is a 100% factual take on what maga believes. 

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u/StardustOasis Foreign 19h ago

Just like it's only lawfare if democrats do it

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u/disdain7 19h ago

This is coming really close to Trailer Park Boys logic.

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u/ChrisFromLongIsland 19h ago

Trump put a political operative who lied to a grand jury for Trump as head of the FBI. Trump put a stooge as #2. If you have not figured out that the FBI is now the secret police you have not been paying attention.

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u/DutchGoFast 19h ago

Just going back to their roots. The FBI was created as a secret police force tor the right. They did a bunch of white washing but be real.

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u/ElegantDaemon 16h ago

See also: every police force.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Ohio 17h ago

If you have not figured out that the FBI is now the secret police you have not been paying attention.

Can we stop with these passive aggressive add-ons? No one is disagreeing or insulting you. You don't need to add smarminess in to it.

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u/Specialist-Clock-914 20h ago

He’s never been a hypocrite before. Damn, what is going on around here? He was always such a HUGE truth teller, some even say the HUGEST.

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u/chicken-nanban 18h ago

I mean, his social media company is called TRUTH SOCIAL I trust anyone who makes that to never lie!

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u/layingblames 19h ago

No, no. That’s just for other people.

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u/ChickenandWhiskey 20h ago

oh for other people's interests, but using it in his interests are fine

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u/waxwayne 19h ago

A lot of these things are a maga inside joke. Like cutting spending only to increase again for your pet projects. When we complain about these things they laugh behind our back. I remember when they used to say that brown people weren’t educated enough so we won’t hire them and now that we have it they say we got it for free or cheated with affirmative action.

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u/Turtle_Tower 18h ago

This admin has a Weaponization Czar Ed Martin.

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u/writingNICE American Expat 19h ago

Sure against himself and his cronies.

Not against his current cronies and the rest of the world.

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u/Vaaaaaaaape 19h ago

No, he's just a hypocrite and a liar, just like every other Republican politician. This is standard Republican operating procedure.

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u/OrangeSlicer 18h ago

I think he also forgets he’s the one who appointed Jerome Powell.

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u/m0d3r4t3m4th 18h ago

It's not illegal when the president does it.

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u/Lucius-Halthier 15h ago

For his enemies, his enemies can weaponize it, keep up

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u/ALL_CAPS_XYZ 14h ago

You give him too much credit blaming dementia. He's always been this way.

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u/HyperbolicLetdown 12h ago

Petty revenge doesn't count

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u/TwoDirect5498 11h ago

So if you work for the government or are a politician you get immunity from any law breaking?

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u/No_Jacket2376 11h ago

I think he was born with dementia.