Early this morning, FBI director Kash Patel cheekily posted on social media “NO ONE is above the legislation…@FBI brokers on mission” as raids have been performed on the Maryland residence and Washington, D.C. workplace of John Bolton, Donald Trump’s nationwide safety adviser in his first time period. The raid was reportedly associated to a categorized paperwork probe
Apropos of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL, since Bolton was fired in September 2019, he’s been a thorn in Trump’s facet. Bolton’s 2020 e-book “The Room The place It Occurred,” was sharply important of Trump’s lack of know-how on all issues international policy-related. Trump threatened to jail Bolton over the e-book, and the DOJ launched an investigation into Bolton over the chance that he “unlawfully disclosed categorized data” in mentioned e-book. That investigation was closed below President Joe Biden.
Trump additionally lashed out on the media for “continuously quoting fired losers and actually dumb folks like John Bolton.” And Trump canceled Bolton’s Secret Service element (supplied within the wake of a assassination plot) shortly after taking workplace in his second time period. Sources near Bolton now name the present raids “retribution, pure and easy.”
And naturally, the irony meter is off the charts with information the Trump administration truly cares about how categorized paperwork are dealt with. In any sane judicial system, Donald Trump himself would have stood trial for his dealing with of categorized paperwork after his loss within the 2020 presidential election. However the case in opposition to Trump was assigned to Trump-appointed district choose Aileen Cannon, who dismissed the case final summer season on the, ermmm, novel principle that particular counsels are somehow illegal. The dismissal was on enchantment to the Eleventh Circuit when Trump took workplace, after which the Division of Justice dropped the enchantment.
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