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Let's talk about the Bolton raids....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about the Bolton raids....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

0:05.1

So today, we're going to talk about the raid on Bolton.

0:10.0

Okay, this morning, there were raids on former National Security Advisor John Bolton's home in Maryland

0:16.8

and his office in D.C.

0:19.5

The reporting says the raids were part of a quote, national security

0:24.2

investigation in search of classified records. We've talked to some people familiar with Bolton,

0:31.2

who is generally viewed as an ideologue in pursuit of American dominance and national interests. Those we talked to were not

0:40.5

particularly fond of Bolton, and the word evil came up more than once. But none of them doubted

0:47.0

that he truly believed what he was doing was in service of what he viewed as the American way of life.

0:54.3

They find it hard to believe that Bolton would have willfully retained classified documents.

1:00.3

That being said, despite early suggestions on social media that this is politically motivated,

1:07.0

because Bolton is a massive critic of Trump's foreign policy,

1:13.3

the searches on the surface seem to stem from a long-running probe dating back to the Biden era, related to the possibility of Bolton

1:19.6

leaking classified information to the media. Most believe it's highly unlikely that Bolton actually

1:26.7

handed off classified documents to the

1:28.8

media. However, Bolton was said to have a memory like a steel trap. So some see it as plausible

1:36.6

that he reviewed a document and then later talked to a reporter and wound up divulging something,

1:43.3

intentionally or not, that maybe he shouldn't

1:46.0

have. There were definitely questions about some of the material in one of his books. From a

1:52.8

practical standpoint, if this is related to a Biden-era probe, it's incredibly unlikely that any

1:59.5

documents would still be present, if they ever even

2:02.6

existed. Trump consistently bashed Bolton in public and private, so it's going to be hard to shake

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