The home of John Bolton, who previously served as President Donald Trump‘s national security adviser during his first administration, was raided by FBI agents Friday (August 22) morning, the New York Post reports.
The investigation was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, who was appointed by Trump, at Bolton’s Bethesda, Maryland, home at around 7:00 a.m.
“NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” Patel wrote on his X account.
The probe reportedly involved classified documents and was launched two years prior, however, shut down by former President Joe Biden‘s administration for “political reasons,” a senior U.S. official confirmed to the New York Post.
Bolton had previously been accused of including classified information in his book, The Room Where It Happened, released in 2020, which Trump unsuccessfully tried to cease publication of, claiming Bolton broke an NDA signed during his employment, while the president’s first-term Justice Department opened an inquiry into the book in September 2020. Trump and Bolton have since been at odds, with the latter making cable news appearances bashing the president’s national security and foreign policy.
The reported raid came one day after Patel revealed that former FBI Director James Comey authorized the leaking of classified documents “while misleading Congress” just prior to the 2016 election, which saw Trump win his first term.
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