The FBI raids the home of former Trump adviser John Bolton.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents raided the Maryland home and Washington, D.C. office of John Bolton, former national security adviser during President Donald Trump’s first term. According to a senior U.S. official, the search was connected to an investigation into Bolton’s possible use of a private email server to share classified documents with his wife and daughter while he was working in the White House. Bolton was not detained and has not been charged with any crimes.
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| 0:40.7 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:59.6 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle Podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:05.8 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the John Bolton investigation. |
| 1:13.4 | It is Monday, August 25th, and on Friday last week, the FBI raided the Maryland home and offices of John Bolton, the former national security advisor during President Donald Trump's first term. |
| 1:17.9 | We're going to break down the story, share some views from the left and the right, and then, of course, my take. |
| 1:23.1 | Before we jump into that, though, I do want to give you a quick heads up that we published a couple pieces of members-only content over the weekend. One was a newsletter and the other was a podcast |
| 1:34.2 | both covering the same topic, which was a response to questions and criticisms we got about |
| 1:40.0 | our video with Representative Jake Auchin-Klaus, the Democrat from Massachusetts. |
| 1:50.8 | A quick reminder, we released a kind of mini documentary on 72 hours with a member of Congress, |
| 1:55.3 | which was Auchin-Claas, and we got a lot of questions about what happened behind the scenes. |
| 2:00.4 | You know, whether we saw him spend any time fundraising, what happened in off-the-record situations, |
| 2:02.2 | readers asking about how the whole thing was actually set up or if we plan to do more videos like it or if we just gave him a bunch of |
| 2:06.9 | free bogus publicity among other things. We responded to all of that on Friday and Saturday with a |
| 2:13.7 | newsletter member's only piece and a member's only podcast that is in this feed. If you want to go back and check it out, you can listen to a preview of it. Encourage you to go listen. I think it's really fun to get to expand on some of the work that we did and show you guys a little bit of how all this actually played out. With that, I'm going to set it over to |
| 2:34.6 | John for today's main story, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 2:43.4 | Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. Hope y'all had a wonderful weekend. It's another Monday, |
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