Posted on 08/23/2025 8:16:44 AM PDT by karpov
President Trump promised voters during his campaign for a second term that he had bigger things on his mind than retribution against opponents. But it is increasingly clear that vengeance is a large part, maybe the largest part, of how he will define success in his second term.
His revenge campaign took an ominous turn Friday as FBI agents raided the home and office of Mr. Trump’s first-term national security adviser John Bolton. They brought two broad warrants to search the “premises.” Agents showed up unannounced at his Bethesda, Md., home at 7 a.m. They confiscated his wife Gretchen’s phone because it was visible and not on her person. Mr. Bolton had already left for his office, which is where FBI agents greeted him.
Kash Patel, the FBI director, sent out a cryptic tweet at 7:03 Friday morning that “NO ONE is above the law . . . @FBI agents on mission.” He didn’t specify to whom he was referring, but the timing is unlikely to have been coincidental.
It’s hard to see the raid as anything other than vindictive. Mr. Bolton fell out of Mr. Trump’s favor in the first term and then wrote a book about his experience in the White House while Mr. Trump was still President. Mr. Trump tried and failed to block publication. The President then claimed Mr. Bolton had exposed classified information, though the book had gone through an extensive pre-publication scrub at the White House for classified material.
The book investigation faded away under President Biden, but now it looks as if Mr. Patel is reviving it. Whether Mr. Trump ordered the FBI probe or not doesn’t matter.
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WSJ used to be a great source of news.......
Is there any honest media anywhere these days?
Did they rummage through her lingerie closet too?
No.
The spin is palpable.
Call it what you want but if anyone deserves to have a revenge campaign it’s President Donald Trump. Democrats have enjoyed immunity from their dastardly underhanded illegal conniving schemes for far too long.
The Democrats are never held responsible for their criminal activities. When the Democrats are in power, they are allowed to skate. And when the Republicans are in office, bringing them to justice is a vendetta.
“WSJ used to be a great source of news.......”
Used to be
This is irresponsible.
It is a lesson in propaganda.
I’m old enough to remember when the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page was Pro-America, or at least appeared to be that way.
Now the Neocons control it and will defend every damn Neocon, even those as evil as Bolton.
A lot of people get caught off guard by a “newspaper” allegedly for capitalists that is run by communists.
Its really comical to watch leftists coming to the aide of John Bolton.
It's much too soon to say that.
The warrant service on John Bolton is a prescient view of what is to come.
If you are a bad guy, turning state’s evidence is the only way to save your ass. It’s time to come to Jesus or descend into hell.
Vendetta? Is this an admission that Bolton did something? I wonder 🤔
Seems he was sending "Classified Info" to his relatives for safe keeping. That's what I heard last...but...I'll take a wait and see.
So this is a vendetta....and Russia Russia Russia was a love story.
No vendetta. Yes, Trump never hits first; but he alsays hits back. The main fact,though, is that he follows the law; they never did. So there’s no tit-for-tat here.
“Is there any honest media anywhere these days?”
Try channel 12 Portland. They are a far left source reporting the family reunion of “wrongfully” deported slave trader Maryland Man.
They may call it a vendetta, but in reality, this is just rough street justice. A turf war, yes, but the opposition made the mistake of self-selecting themselves to be “enemies” of Trump. Trump does not make the first strike, but his counterpunch is devastating to say the least.
Just ask Rosie O’Donnell.
If you are out to kill the king, better not miss.
Yet they did miss.
Funny how 10+ years of lawfare against Trump was “justice” and “saving democracy” while Trump going after actual criminals and those who committed treason is a “vendetta “😂😂😂😂
They can’t help themselves, TDS on full display
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