Victor Davis Hanson: What the Media Won’t Tell You About John Bolton FBI Raid

The Daily Signal YT Channel ^ | Aug 25 2025 | victor davis hanson

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The FBI recently raided the home of John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-outspoken Trump critic, seizing documents allegedly tied to classified material.

From Bolton’s role in the Trump administration to prior warnings from a federal judge about his handling of sensitive information and why the DOJ under Biden dropped its earlier investigation, Victor Davis Hanson unpacks the full backstory behind the raid on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fbi; habitualcomplainers; johnbolton; nevertrumperssad; raid; skeletor; vdh; victordavishanson; walrusface

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“ When Donald Trump's home was raided on August 9th, 2022, John Bolton spoke out. And he said, ‘Let's not prejudge, you,’ basically, you pro-Trumpers, ‘let's just let all the evidence, you know, be seen before we make snap judgments.’ Meaning, you know, he's probably guilty. But more importantly, then he said, ‘Donald Trump was just—anything that came across his desk. He saw french fries, he got 'em. He saw classified documents, he did, just because he could.’ And then on another occasion, ‘He has no respect for classification. And that's a lie, that he personally classified these.’

So he was very critical of anybody who objected to what he thought was an FBI, legitimate raid on Mar-a-Lago. Now it's ironic. We'll see if he uses the same tropes and themes to protect himself in the way that he blasted Trump about a similar raid.”

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(0:00) FBI Raids John Bolton's Home
(1:56) Background on Bolton's Legal Issues
(2:54) Trump's DOJ vs. Bolton
(3:49) Current Investigation
(5:30) Legal and Political Implications
(9:02) Conclusion

Very timely and with news that PMSNBCNOW just won't discuss.

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[TornadoAlley3]

The walrus selling secrets. Federal prison is his future.

[Celtic Conservative]

Ben Shapiro was clutching his pearls about the raid on one of last weeks podcasts. I skipped right over the segment.

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[Vermont Lt]

So VDH has someone leaking stuff to him about Bolton leaking stuff.

Cool. What makes one worse than the other?

[TTFlyer]

FFS get a clue.

[Bob Wills is still the king]

“FFS get a clue.”
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Interesting you’ve quoted Lenin on your TL.

[New Perspective]

Poor guy, do you have an issue with someone breaking the law??