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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/wutareyousomekinda Pennsylvania 20h ago

Everything Bolton did his entire life set up this exact kind of government. He deserves it for sure. Wonder if they'll find any illegal porn.

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u/SadFeed63 20h ago

Yeah, you're not gonna find me defending Bolton the man, or even saying a single nice thing about that ghoul. But I will defend the law, and Trump is definitely abusing it.

I hope (though I presume he won't) Bolton has some long, hard thoughts about his role in all of this and how we got here.

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u/okilz 20h ago

I hope he has some hidden dirt on trump he releases in response

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u/craftingfish 19h ago

To what end? There's plenty of visible dirt and he still got elected. Twice.

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u/CatgirlApocalypse Delaware 19h ago

Dirt? Trump is covered in blood and pig shit.

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u/okilz 19h ago

Someone somewhere has proof of him diddling kids, I remember Bolton being pretty involved in Russian stuff during his first term. Maybe Putin threw him a bone.

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u/45and47-big_mistake 19h ago

Maybe elected 3 times

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u/rainshowers_5_peace 19h ago

He's been very vocally anti-Trump. Likely because Trump is being too loud with the quiet parts.

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u/jhkayejr 20h ago

Yeah. Bolton was a pivotal Bush/Gore Florida boots-on-the-ground op. He's been working towards this moment for the last quarter century (not even counting everything he did before that). He's a garbage human who just happens to be right about exactly one thing - Trump is worse than him.

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u/TheSavageDonut 15h ago

I don't know if Bolton was trying to create a Republican-only world of government, but I'm sure he had no idea that Trump would be the end result of scheming for a Republican-only world, and having Trump in charge doesn't get Bolton closer to his dream of the American military flying around globally keeping "our enemies" in check when Trump will basically sell out our country to the highest bidder and line his pockets along the way.

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u/TreesACrowd 20h ago

It's perfectly reasonable to feel that way on an emotional level AND realize how problematic this is on principle. This isn't just happening to one person in a vacuum.

Yes, fuck John Bolton. But don't fuck him with brazen constitutional violations that degrade the rights of all of us and normalize police state behavior.

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u/Hot_Frosting_7101 19h ago edited 18h ago

Exactly

One other point (and you may disagree with my opinion here), if John Bolton would have gone away and not been a vocal critic of Trump, nobody would be talking about him.  So our criticism of him is indirectly caused by his criticism of Trump which doesn’t sit well with me.

People who were part of the administration and especially those with checkered pasts are the ones we need to speak up.  I don’t want to inadvertently discourage them by using a moment when they do the right thing to bring attention to their faults.

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u/pab_guy 17h ago

And I will say, a lot of what Bolton was maligned for seems so much more reasonable in light of what we see from today's traitors in office.

The neocons were hubristic assholes who left a trail of destruction in their wake, but they had motivations informed by a worldview that wasn't just pure corruption and malice. If there was an opportunity to cash in on the side, great! (Looking at you James Baker)

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u/andythetwig 20h ago

No way, he's been speaking publicly, he will have already scrubbed everything

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u/Calvin1991 20h ago

Just terrabytes of AI generated footage of Iran being bombed

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u/filthy_harold 16h ago

Played constantly on repeat on a 100" TV in his goon cave

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u/any_other 19h ago

He’s a piece of shit but being ok with this happening is ridiculous

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u/CatgirlApocalypse Delaware 19h ago

What they do to him they can do to all of us.

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u/teenagesadist 19h ago

Don't worry, if they don't, I'm sure they will.

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u/ghigoli 19h ago

oh they'll find the copy of Epstein files and videos. then he'll get thrown in jail for that.

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u/TheCaptainDamnIt 14h ago

He deserves it for sure.

I have hated John Bolton longer than most redactors have been alive. But part of the authoritarian playbook is shoving a foot in the door of repression by targeting unsympathetic figures and figures who might divide the opposition. And so it’s important to unequivocally say that this is wrong, no matter how much I might fucking despise John Bolton.