FBI agents appeared outside the home of John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security advisor during his first term, carrying out a search warrant. However, one reporter thinks FBI Director Kash Patel bragged about it ahead of time and said that he or someone in his office tipped off conservative media.
Taking to X Friday morning during the raid, Mother Jones reporter Dan Friedman, who covers lobbying and corruption, linked to a post on X from Patel reading, "NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission."
Friedman wrote, "Patel isn’t recused. He seems to have boasted about the Bolton raid ahead of time. And he or someone in his office seems to have tipped off the NYPost about the raid."
Patel added Bolton to his "enemies list" in his 2024 book, "The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy." At the end, in the appendix, Patel included a list of “Members of the Executive Branch Deep State," cited Friedman on X.
"John Bolton was an arrogant control freak who resisted following the orders of the president he served if it didn't suit his interests," Patel wrote. "Presumably, Bolton didn't want anyone working for him who the president personally requested and who had no special loyalty to Bolton himself (resisting the constitutional authority of elected leaders is a prime sign of the Deep State). So, Bolton threw up roadblock after bureaucratic roadblock to prevent me from being hired."
Search warrants require a judge to sign off on them. The judge reviews the information to determine if there is probable cause for such a raid.