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FBI searches home of former Trump adviser John Bolton

19 points by duxup 1y ago

bix6 1y ago
It’s crazy that Pam and Kash are posting about this online while Bolton’s been charged with nothing. Just so unprofessional and Stasi-esque.
- cosmicgadget 1y ago
  "The DOJ and FBI don't comment on ongoi- lmao jk you are in the bizarro timeline bruh."
cosmicgadget 1y ago
> Bolton served in Trump's first term in the White House for just over a year, but has since become a sharp critic of the president. He has said he believed Trump would use the Department of Justice to enact a "retribution presidency." Not that it was any surprise but he definitely called it. I read elsewhere that the warrant was for classified docs which would be impressive since he's been out of the game for many years.
throw0101a 1y ago
An hour or two before the search/raid, NPR posted an interview with Bolton, "John Bolton discusses what security guarantees for Ukraine might look like": * https://www.npr.org/2025/08/20/nx-s1-5507029/john-bolton-discusses-what-security-guarantees-for-ukraine-might-look-like https://www.npr.org/2025/08/20/nx-s1-5507029/john-bolton-dis... * Via: https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1958854664834756639#m https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1958854664834756639... (Some folks are joking that the FBI have finally found the Epstein files.)
buyucu 1y ago
this is hilarious and could not have happened to a worse excuse for a human being. john bolton has the blood of countless people on his hands.
- bix6 1y ago
  O yeah it’s hilarious he’s being tried for all the blood on his hands! O wait they’re just making an example of him for… speaking out against Trump, I mean classified document misuse? Righteous.
  - buyucu 1y ago
    look at the beauty of it: an old white dude, a villanous warmongering neocon, is being harassed by a indian dude with brown skin, while the maga idiots cheer on. it can't get more ironic than this.
throw0101a 1y ago
Trump seems to have a very 'eccentricæ level of knowledge about the world; him yesterday: "I have a lot of golf courses all over the place. I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world." * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-grass-dc-photo-op-b2812223.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... Trump today: "We’re going to find out. I know nothing about it. I just saw it this morning, they did a raid." * https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/fbi-searches-ex-national-security-adviser-john-boltons-house-in-maryland-00519388 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/fbi-searches-ex-nat... Also today (on Fox News): "I tell Pam [Bondi] and I tell the group, I don't wanna know, but you have to do what you have to do." * https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1958897383288304126 https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1958897383288304126 Also, coïncidentally, the first batch of Epstein files are heading over to Congress today: * https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5509535/epstein-files-congress-house-oversight-committee-trump https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5509535/epstein-files-c...
- throw0101a 1y ago
  > Also today (on Fox News): "I tell Pam [Bondi] and I tell the group, I don't wanna know, but you have to do what you have to do." Kind of reminds me of the Mitchell & Webb comedy skit about "Needlessly ambiguous terms": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cake3bwnY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cake3bwnY
- krapp 1y ago
  >Also, coïncidentally, the first batch of Epstein files are heading over to Congress today: Is anyone else surprised that, Trump being Trump, anything and everything related to Epstein hasn't already been burned in a big dumpster and deleted from all of the databases? Like, unless these files are specifically crafted around a narrative to indict Trump's enemies and exonerate him, I would have expected some kind of Stalin-esque historywashing to have taken place by now, beyond Trump just awkwardly insisting they don't exist and Epstein doesn't matter.

19 points by duxup 1y ago

bix6 1y ago

It’s crazy that Pam and Kash are posting about this online while Bolton’s been charged with nothing. Just so unprofessional and Stasi-esque.

cosmicgadget 1y ago
"The DOJ and FBI don't comment on ongoi- lmao jk you are in the bizarro timeline bruh."

cosmicgadget 1y ago

> Bolton served in Trump's first term in the White House for just over a year, but has since become a sharp critic of the president. He has said he believed Trump would use the Department of Justice to enact a "retribution presidency." Not that it was any surprise but he definitely called it. I read elsewhere that the warrant was for classified docs which would be impressive since he's been out of the game for many years.

throw0101a 1y ago

An hour or two before the search/raid, NPR posted an interview with Bolton, "John Bolton discusses what security guarantees for Ukraine might look like": * https://www.npr.org/2025/08/20/nx-s1-5507029/john-bolton-discusses-what-security-guarantees-for-ukraine-might-look-like https://www.npr.org/2025/08/20/nx-s1-5507029/john-bolton-dis... * Via: https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1958854664834756639#m https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1958854664834756639... (Some folks are joking that the FBI have finally found the Epstein files.)

buyucu 1y ago

this is hilarious and could not have happened to a worse excuse for a human being. john bolton has the blood of countless people on his hands.

bix6 1y ago
O yeah it’s hilarious he’s being tried for all the blood on his hands! O wait they’re just making an example of him for… speaking out against Trump, I mean classified document misuse? Righteous.
- buyucu 1y ago
  look at the beauty of it: an old white dude, a villanous warmongering neocon, is being harassed by a indian dude with brown skin, while the maga idiots cheer on. it can't get more ironic than this.

throw0101a 1y ago

Trump seems to have a very 'eccentricæ level of knowledge about the world; him yesterday: "I have a lot of golf courses all over the place. I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world." * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-grass-dc-photo-op-b2812223.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic... Trump today: "We’re going to find out. I know nothing about it. I just saw it this morning, they did a raid." * https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/fbi-searches-ex-national-security-adviser-john-boltons-house-in-maryland-00519388 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/fbi-searches-ex-nat... Also today (on Fox News): "I tell Pam [Bondi] and I tell the group, I don't wanna know, but you have to do what you have to do." * https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1958897383288304126 https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1958897383288304126 Also, coïncidentally, the first batch of Epstein files are heading over to Congress today: * https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5509535/epstein-files-congress-house-oversight-committee-trump https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5509535/epstein-files-c...

throw0101a 1y ago
> Also today (on Fox News): "I tell Pam [Bondi] and I tell the group, I don't wanna know, but you have to do what you have to do." Kind of reminds me of the Mitchell & Webb comedy skit about "Needlessly ambiguous terms": * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cake3bwnY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cake3bwnY
krapp 1y ago
>Also, coïncidentally, the first batch of Epstein files are heading over to Congress today: Is anyone else surprised that, Trump being Trump, anything and everything related to Epstein hasn't already been burned in a big dumpster and deleted from all of the databases? Like, unless these files are specifically crafted around a narrative to indict Trump's enemies and exonerate him, I would have expected some kind of Stalin-esque historywashing to have taken place by now, beyond Trump just awkwardly insisting they don't exist and Epstein doesn't matter.