'Something bigger': Trump attorney says FBI raid is over 'conspiracy to overthrow Trump'

Christina Bobb, former attorney for President Donald Trump who was indicted for her involvement with Trump’s 2020 fake electors plot, said that she believed the Friday morning raid on John Bolton’s home was “certainly part of a larger conspiracy” to overthrow the president, contrary to reporting that it was related to classified documents.

Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security advisor during his first term, saw his home descended upon early Friday by the FBI, with limited reporting on the raid suggesting it was part of an investigation into the mishandling of classified documents, documents that, as a former top official at the White House, he would have had regular access to.

But Bobb, who represented Trump amid the Justice Department’s 2022 probe into the then-former president’s mishandling of classified documents, suggested that the raid on Bolton’s home was likely much “bigger” than what reporting suggested.

“I don’t think this is just about his handling of classified materials, I think this goes to something bigger,” Bobb said while appearing on Newsmax Friday.

“They've got very big fish to fry, and John Bolton certainly was part of a larger likely conspiracy; I'm assuming this is about a conspiracy to overthrow Donald Trump. So I want to see what the probable cause is and what they're going after on this, but this is a real one! I went through it when it was fake; this looks like it's a real one.”

Leading up to the FBI’s 2022 raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Bobb had falsely told the FBI that Trump had returned all classified documents over to the Justice Department. The DOJ later raided Mar-a-Lago and discovered a trove of classified documents, a raid that ultimately led to Trump’s indictment in federal court.

Newsmax host Marc Lotter presented his own theory as to the cause of the raid on Bolton’s home, suggesting it could have stemmed from a 2020 book penned by the former national security official, a book that detailed Trump’s diplomatic bungling.

“According to the Associated Press, it relates to the handling of classified information,” Lotter said. “(It) possibly also may relate to his book that apparently the White House pushed back on because it potentially contained classified information.”

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