Did Trump Know About Bolton Raid or Not?
“I saw it on television this morning,” Trump said, quickly adding: “I’m not a fan of John Bolton. He’s a real, sort of a low life.… He’s not a smart guy. He could be a very unpatriotic guy.”
Since his contentious 17-month stint in Trump’s first administration, Bolton has repeatedly drawn his former boss’s ire—including for publishing a 2020 tell-all, In The Room Where It Happened, which described him as incompetent and unfit for office. Trump’s first-term Justice Department investigated Bolton over the book, claiming it contained classified information. Similarly, Friday’s raid, per NBC, was part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records.”
During his remarks about Bolton, Trump also made a point to assert that he “could” have hypothetically been the one who ordered the search, but insisted this was done by Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department.
