The operation took place with a former Donald Trump advisor who became one of his most ardent criticisms. This Friday, August 22, the American Federal Police (FBI) registered John Bolton’s house, former Donald Trump advisor in National Security in the first mandate of the Republican President.
Early this Friday, the FBI agents entered and left the house in the Washington suburbs of this former US senior official, an AFP journalist said.
“No one is above the law … FBI agents are in a mission,” said Federal Police director Kash Patel, without this faithful of Donald Trump, said what case he meant.
According to the New York Post table, who cites an official Trump administration, Kash Patel directly ordered the investigation. Requested by AFP, the FBI indicated that he had no “comments” to do in the search.
During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump had done much of his desire to investigate and continue his “interior enemies.” In 2020, he said that John Bolton should be “in prison” for a book that the former advisor had written during his visit to the White House between 2018 and 2019.
One “less than” for Donald Trump
Questioned by the press on Friday, Donald Trump said he had not been informed by the FBI of this search, before launching several peaks to his former advisor.
“I’m not a fan of John Bolton. It’s really a noise less,” said the US president. “It is not an intelligent guy, but it could also be very antipatriotic, let’s see that.”
According to the New York Times and other US media, the search was ordered to determine whether John Bolton had shared or had illegally possession of confidential documents.
Back in the White House in January, Donald Trump had signed an executive decree accusing his former advisor to have revealed “confidential information when he was” in the White House. He also deprived his former advisor to protect the Secret Service, the agency responsible for protecting high political figures in the United States and had separated all access to security and intelligence data.
John Bolton then declared that he was “disappointed but not surprised” by the decision. Saying the objective of a murder project promoted by Iran between 2021 and 2022, he also said in January: “The threat remains.” Tehran would have wanted to avenge the death of its General Qassem Soleimani, killed on January 3, 2020 in a strike of planes not manned in Iraq ordered by Donald Trump during his first term (2017-2021).
A “Presidency of Repliation”
With the face crossed by a thick mustache, this 76 -year -old republican had become an international as an ambassador to the UN under the presidency of George W. Bush during the war in Iraq.
After his dismissal for Donald Trump, he had begun to take a position against the policies carried out by the Republican. In a book published in 2020, John Bolton had presented his former boss as obsessed with his only re -election and “not suitable” to lead the main power of the world. Recently, he criticized the summit between the US president and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska.
In an interview last week in ABC News Channel, the former ambassador had lamented the fact that Donald Trump attacked him and others, believing that the second mandate of the Republican was a “presidency of reprisals.” He also repeatedly criticized Kash Patel’s appointment at the head of the FBI, who, according to him, “shows what Trump really wants, that is, a loyalty to Trump.”
At the time of this appointment, the elected Democratic officials had also expressed their strong opposition. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin had said that he feared that this former federal prosecutor would use his new role to “take revenge on his political enemies.” In 2023, Kash Patel said that if he was taken to take care of the FBI, the police agencies “would attack journalists and Joe Biden’s government officials.
Source: BFM TV
