Posted on 08/28/2025 5:59:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When news hit last week that federal agents had raided John Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington office, the reaction was as predictable as it was hysterical. The left immediately leapt into hysterics, spinning the story as proof of Trump’s alleged obsession with revenge, tying it to Bolton’s bitter falling-out with him. Within hours, the usual chorus was screeching the same tired lines: Democracy is under attack! Trump is a dictator! This was pure political retribution!
Only it wasn’t.
A new report from—if you can believe it—the New York Times has thrown cold water on that absurd little storyline. According to their reporting, the roots of this investigation don’t trace back to Trump at all. In fact, the probe gained traction under the Biden administration—an inconvenient truth that blows up the liberal media’s theory of political retribution.
The investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, began to pick up momentum during the Biden administration, when U.S. intelligence officials collected information that appeared to show that he had mishandled classified information, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
The United States gathered data from an adversarial country’s spy service, including emails with sensitive information that Mr. Bolton, while still working in the first Trump administration, appeared to have sent to people close to him on an unclassified system, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive case that remains open.
Sources say the emails at the heart of the case were written by Bolton himself and contained information pulled from classified documents he had access to while serving in the White House. Even worse, those messages were allegedly sent to people close to him as he pieced together his infamous 2020 anti-Trump book, The Room Where It Happened.
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The investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, began to pick up momentum during the Biden administration,
This destroys the argument that this is political.
approved federal search warrants for Bolton’s properties. That doesn’t happen lightly. Courts don’t sign off on those warrants unless investigators make a strong showing of probable cause.
They can indict a ham sandwich and a search warrant needs less proof than that. The Biden administration showed that when obtaining search warrants for the home of Donald Trump and various of his associates. They even had occasion to notify CNN so there would be video for the news. Whatever did they search for in Melania's underwear collection?
I hold Bolton somewhere a scumbag and a lunatic, but obtaining a search warrant is not proof of much. It is a showing that a reasonable person has a reason to believe.
https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-rights/probable-cause.html
Probable cause to search exists when facts and circumstances known to the law enforcement officer provide the basis for a reasonable person to believe that they committed a crime at the place to be searched or that evidence of a crime exists at the location.The police officer can then seek a search warrant from a judge or magistrate. A search warrant gives the officer permission to conduct a limited search. Search warrants specify where law enforcement can search and items they can seize.
The result of the search may provide evidence of a crime.
The only memorable thing about Bolton is his mustache.
I found the reason why the investigation of Bolton was initiated under the Biden regime. https://thehill.com/policy/international/4658439-bolton-slams-biden-for-unprecedented-break-between-the-us-and-israel/
The phrase that they could indict a ham sandwich is so jaw-droppingly stupid, it’s positively deranged, at least in the context of indicting Demonrat politicians from D.C. You could have video footage of a Democrat bludgeoning a Ukrainian orphan to death with a giant dildo and not get an indictment. In fact, that’s the problem with Trump’s troops in D.C.: they can make all the arrests they want, but they can’t get indictments even when they literally have the crimes on camera.
But if Trump is against him, they must be for him.
Loose cannons need to be tied down or they can sink the ship.
Just looking at makes me not trust him.
“The investigation began during the Biden administration”
Such an inconvenient truth.
No matter, though, really. The crazy leftists who say it’s Trump’s doing don’t have any intellectual curiosity, or attempt to inform themselves.
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