{"id":365523,"date":"2025-08-22T20:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/365523\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:38:13","slug":"fbi-searches-home-of-trump-adviser-turned-critic-john-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/365523\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI searches home of Trump adviser-turned-critic John Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bolton probe seems far from Trump’s mindpublished at 18:58 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

18:58 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Bernd Debusmann Jr<\/strong>
Reporting from the White House<\/p>\n

\"DonaldImage source, Reuters<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has just wrapped up his comments in the Oval Office, with very little mention of the search of John Bolton’s office and home.<\/p>\n

Even by Trump’s standards, this was a rather long and wide-ranging question-and-answer session. <\/p>\n

Trump is, quite clearly, in a good mood. For much of the event, he was laughing and joking with reporters and officials in the room, including by asking if he could keep the World Cup trophy – which he said would be a good fit in the Oval Office. <\/p>\n

Later on, when asked what role he would play in the World Cup draw, Trump joked that he “might play” in the tournament and that he is a “great athlete” who looks “extremely good in shorts”. <\/p>\n

From my seat in the White House basement, I could hear reporters chuckling to themselves <\/p>\n

While he did cover some more serious issues – including the war in Ukraine and Russia and the National Guard’s involvement fighting crime in DC – the Bolton issue seems to be far from his mind, at least publicly. <\/p>\n

He’s still not been briefed by Attorney General Pam Bondi on the searches, he says. <\/p>\n

It’s always possible that in the coming days we’ll hear more from him about the matter, even if he says for now that he does not want to get involved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bolton probe seems far from Trump’s mindpublished at 18:58 British Summer Time 18:58 BST Bernd Debusmann JrReporting from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-365523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115074348081066536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}