Turnabout's Fair Play | Democrats Blacklist Wokey Words | 8/25/25

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

Politics, News, Daily News

4.9 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Aaron McIntire dives into the FBI raid on John Bolton’s Bethesda home over classified documents, a probe reignited from his 2020 memoir. He discusses the Democrats’ push to blacklist 45 Marxist-leaning terms like “privilege” and “microaggression” to reconnect with voters. Plus, a critical look at the Trump administration’s 10% stake in Intel, exploring the complex necessity of securing domestic chip production amidst global reliance. The episode also covers Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fattah’s lost DFL endorsement and highlights from Pastor John MacArthur’s memorial service.

AM Update, John Bolton, FBI raid, classified documents, Democrats, blacklisted words, Intel, Trump administration, chip production, Omar Fattah, John MacArthur, JD Vance, national security, Minneapolis election, Christian faith

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0:00.0	It's Monday, August 25th, 2025. John Bolton finds out, turnabout is fair play.
0:05.1	Democrats are blacklisting words, but not how you'd expect and why the government's new
0:09.7	stake in Intel is more complicated than you might think.
0:13.5	Next on the AM update.
0:20.6	Within minutes of FBI director Cash Patel, tweeting on Friday morning, quote,
0:24.8	No one is above the law. FBI agents on mission.
0:28.6	Federal agents raided the D.C. area home of John Bolton, President Trump's former national security advisor.
0:35.1	A Trump administration official told the New York Post that federal agents stormed
0:38.8	Bolton's Bethesda, Maryland House around 7 a.m. Eastern time.
0:43.0	The raid is in connection to a probe reportedly involving classified documents that was
0:47.0	launched years ago, but torpedoed by President Joe Biden's administration for quote-unquote
0:51.2	political reasons.
0:52.2	The Department of Justice during Trump's first
0:54.5	term opened a criminal investigation in 2020 regarding whether or not Bolton disclosed classified
1:01.5	information in his book, the room where it happened. After first proving unable to stop the
1:06.5	publication of the book with the lawsuit, the case was referred to the DOJ by then Director of National
1:11.5	Intelligence, John Ratcliffe. Well, you might be thinking, hey, this is not a good
1:16.2	precedent you want to be setting here. Yes, of course, Trump was the target of all sorts
1:20.5	of lawfare, including having his Mar-a-Lago home raided, his wife's underwear drawer
1:25.4	gone through by federal agents, but still still you can't treat the other side.
1:29.8	Of course, nobody yet talks about that John Bolton is a Republican, or at least was anyway.
1:34.3	You can't do that to the other side.
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