Kash Patel’s FBI Launches Dawn Raid on John Bolton’s House

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  2. Does it say why? Im assuming straight up harassment since bolton is now a very vocal Trump hater but did they have a particular crime they were investigating??

    Edit:

    Found in a different article:

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

    “The probe — which is said to involve classified documents — was first launched years ago, but the Biden administration shut it down “for political reasons,” according to a senior US official.”

  3. The french would have revolted 3 constitutional criseses ago.

  4. They’re no particular reason, they’re just going to Hoover everything up and make something up.

  5. And yet trump is not only walking around free, he’s in the damn white house…

  6. They aimed at Bolton with some calculation. As a neo-con he isn’t popular with either MAGA nor Dems. He has a long career. He has been a Trump critic since he served in trumps first admin. The chances he has inadvertently kept something he shouldn’t are probably fair, as it’s pretty much in the realm of normal. Not a Bolton fan, but the guy is a professional who lives in reality. This is likely another example of the trump admin taking something minor (mistakenly keeping docs), leveraging it into a defense of some gross intentional and much worse act by Trump (a library of classified materials in a mar a lago throne room), followed by a return to clamping down on the innocuous mess ups by perceived enemies.

    Meanwhile the trump admin plots military strikes in the group chat with zero accountability.

    🔥👊🇺🇸

  8. The poem must have skipped this part.

    “And then they came for the current President’s former National Security Advisor…”

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

  10. Folks, if you’re not yet convinced of where we are, this is a flashing warning sign that this is an authoritarian dictatorship, and they’re in the beginning stages of persecution of their enemies and opposition.

  14. The idea that the trump DOJ launched a classified documents raid might break the irony scale.

  16. A lot of people may come to regret enabling Trump’s rise

  17. >The feds have so far given no indication as to why Trump’s adviser turned nemesis has been targeted

    Cuz he criticizes shitler on Real News Media! CNN.

  18. The intention is likely less about Bolton himself and more about sending a message to other critics. Pretty standard procedure in budding dictatorships.

    Unfortunately, nothing will happen. There will be no pushback. There will be no going out into the streets. Life will just go on and this too will be normalized. This is why voting was so important, and will be if we get fair elections again. It’s actual power with minimal effort.

  19. The Gestapo, short for Geheime Staatspolizei (German for “Secret State Police”), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. It operated as a political police force from 1933 to 1945.
    Its primary purpose was to identify and eliminate any opposition to the Nazi regime, both real and perceived. The Gestapo’s power was rooted in its ability to operate outside the traditional legal system.
    Key characteristics and functions of the Gestapo included:
    * Extra-Legal Authority: The Gestapo was exempt from judicial review. Its agents had the power to arrest and imprison individuals without a warrant, formal charges, or a trial, a practice known as Schutzhaft (“protective custody”).
    * Terror and Intimidation: It used torture, interrogation, and psychological terror to extract information and enforce obedience. The organization’s methods created a climate of fear and suspicion throughout German society.
    * Reliance on Informants: The Gestapo relied heavily on a vast network of civilian informants and public denunciations to gather information on dissidents, critics, or anyone who did not conform to Nazi ideology.
    * Persecution of Minorities: While its initial focus was on political opponents like communists and socialists, the Gestapo was a key instrument in the persecution of Jews, Roma people, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other groups targeted by the Nazi regime.
    * Integration with the SS: Over time, the Gestapo was absorbed into the larger Nazi security apparatus, coming under the direct control of SS leader Heinrich Himmler and becoming part of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) in 1939.
    The Gestapo became a chilling symbol of Nazi tyranny and state-sponsored terror. After World War II, the organization was declared a criminal organization at the Nuremberg Trials, and many of its leaders were prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

  20. John Bolton sucks ass and has made the world a worse place, but it’s obvious Trump is only going after him because he’s one of his enemies.

  21. But Trump, I thought it was wrong to raid a place over documents? (If this is over documents.)

  22. Rage, retaliation and retribution. Just a matter of time before Barack and Michelle Obama are forcibly removed from their home in handcuffs in a pre dawn raid with Trump pushing them into a black SUV!

  23. I guess they are sick of us asking for the Epstein Files 

  24. They took away his security clearance at the beginning of trumps term. You can look at this like the Oppenheimer investigation. Where they strip you of your security clearance so your lawyer doesn’t have any ability to protect you.

  25. I wonder if John Bolton is aware he helped create the current political climate in which Kash Patel exists. I wonder if he knows this while the leopard eats his face

  26. I’m sure this has nothing to do with John Bolton going on CNN during Trump’s Putin Summit. And pointing out how outrageous it all was.

  27. Think about how different the world would be if Merrick Garland’s DOJ was as brazen and indifferent to “bad optics” as Bondi’s is.

    And Garland’s even had a target that actually committed numerous crimes, and not this performance of corrupt menace here.

  28. Serious question from Ireland – surely a good proportion of Republicans can see that this behavior is hugely corrosive of American society, and is moving it steadily towards outright dictatorship? Are they so scared that they just won’t speak out? I find it hard to believe that anyone raised in a democracy would be so partisan as to think that this is acceptable conduct, or so naive as to think they will always be in the administration’s good books and therefore safe.

  29. Bolton doesn’t have the Epstein files Mr Patel. You do. Now release them like you said you would.

  30. a republican warhawk having his house raided, this is sending the message to any of the “Republica classic” (ass holes but not facist) to fall in line because no one is safe, not even with the Magic (R). You need the Magic Hat to avoid Trumplethinkskin’s tiny handed revenge.

  31. John Bolton, a neo-con classmate of Clarence Thomas and a member of the Bush-Cheney administration that showed plenty of signs of fascism is now the hunted. Just think what this Trump administration is willing to do to the rest of us.

  32. Bolton said Trump is dangerous for our country but not dangerous enough for Bolton to actually vote for the democratic candidate. This is what he gets for that foolishness.

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