Karma Comes Calling for John Bolton
The FBI raided his house and office looking for evidence that he mishandled classified information.
by David Catron
August 24, 2025, 10:16 PM
On August 8, 2022 about 30 FBI agents descended on Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago and searched the place with less civility than they would have afforded a Miami drug lord. They spent most of that day rummaging through Trump’s personal belongings — and those of his wife and son — allegedly in search of classified documents. This was the first time in American history that such an outrage had been committed against any former president. Yet it was greeted with thinly disguised glee by Trump’s critics, including erstwhile National Security Advisor John Bolton.
The weirdest part of the retribution narrative involves the crocodile tears Democrats have shed over the plight of a Republican like John R. Bolton.Friday morning at 7 a.m., Bolton learned what it feels like to have the FBI appear at one’s front door with a search warrant. Later that day, federal agents also searched his D.C. office. According to a report in the New York Post, a senior U.S. official said the FBI is investigating Bolton’s use of a private email to send national security documents to family members. This official alleged, “While Bolton was a national security adviser, he was literally stealing classified information, utilizing his family as a cutout.” This is a profoundly ironic development considering Bolton’s frequent and caustic public comments about President Trump and the Mar-a-Lago raid.
After that event, Bolton appeared on MSNBC to inveigh against Trump and his attitude concerning classified material: “I don’t think he cared about the classification system, I don’t think he appreciated the sensitivity of this information.” Oddly enough, he was utterly unconcerned about the dangerous precedent set by an FBI raid on a former president’s home: “It’s important that everybody take a deep breath here. This is a very serious matter. And it would be better if we could let the legal process play out.” It did “play out,” of course, when federal judge Aileen M. Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against Trump.
Inevitably the corporate news media have reacted quite differently to the Mar-a-Lago and Bolton raids. In the former case the major outlets often refused to call it a “raid.” The Washington Post, for example, ran countless pieces like this one in which the FBI “search” of Trump’s home was characterized as relatively routine: “It’s important to note that there is no reason to think the FBI’s action was triggered by politics.” On the other hand, the Post’s editorial about the bureau’s surprise visit to Bolton’s house uses the “R” word in its headline: “FBI raid targeting Bolton crosses a line in the Trump revenge campaign.” It goes downhill from there:
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