BREAKING: FBI Executes Search Warrant at John Bolton’s Home (w/ Ben Wittes)
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🗓️ 22 August 2025
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| 0:24.4 | Former Trump National Security Advisor turned Trump critic John Bolton's home was rated |
| 0:30.0 | this morning by the FBI before 7 a.m. Eastern time. |
| 0:36.8 | I hopped on a live stream with law fairs Ben Wittes, |
| 0:41.6 | who was first on the scene reporting this. |
| 0:46.3 | He had video from the street outside Bolton's house, |
| 0:50.7 | which has been shut down, |
| 0:51.6 | had information confirmed by the local police. |
| 0:55.0 | It was an FBI raid about half hour or so after Wittes and we at the Bullock reported on this |
| 1:03.7 | raid. The FBI confirmed to the New York Post their propaganda rag of choice that this was, in fact, a raid on John Bolton's home, |
| 1:15.6 | and that it was related to, what did they say, a national security probe. |
| 1:19.2 | They called it. |
| 1:20.5 | I think that at this point, we have reporting from other national security reporters |
| 1:25.6 | who have confirmed this is related to the classified |
| 1:29.0 | documents case back in 2020. |
| 1:32.6 | If you don't remember, there was Trump administration was pissed that John Bolton was writing a book |
| 1:36.7 | critiquing Trump. |
| 1:38.5 | There's some pushback that he had not had some of the material in that book approved |
| 1:42.5 | through the normal channels that you go through to get sensitive information approved before you can publish it in a book. |
| 1:50.0 | There's an open investigation to him at the time. |
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