FBI Director Kash Patel posted an esoteric message on Friday morning, reporting that the federal agent was raiding the house of John Bolton, former National Security Advisor of President Trump.
“No one is above the law …@FBI agent on the mission,” Patel wrote on the social media platform X after 7 am, without mentioning anyone by name.
Dan Bongino, director of Deputy FBI, shared Patel’s remarks in a separate post stating, “Public corruption would not be tolerated.”
The FBI refused to comment on the hill on the meaning of the posts.
An FBI officer and another source familiar with the case confirmed the newsnation, Hill’s sister network, that agent A search conducted Washington, out of DC, Bolton’s house in Bethesda, MD Friday morning.
The search belongs to the classified information, the sources explained the newsnation and other outlets.
Bolton, who served in Trump’s first administration, has been an outspoken critic of the President’s foreign policy, especially his Russia-Ukraine war handlingIn his post on Friday morning around the reported FBI raid, Bolton posted on X for criticizing the administration.
He argued that there is no possibility of progressing in talks related to Russia and Ukraine with the aim of ending the war, Given the demands of Moscow, which Keev has rejected, but said “meetings will continue because Trump Nobel wants the peace prize.”
Trump and Bolton collided for a long time, after returning to office in January, the President nicked the security approval of the former advisor and pulled out his security details despite threats against Bolton from Iran on their Hawkish foreign policy positions.
Meanwhile, Drew Flack from Patel’s post critics on Friday morning amid the FBI raid.
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McKebe, who has Criticized The leadership of the bureau under the Trump Administration “so far, another example, in my opinion, Kash Patel failed to live till the example of his predecessors.”
“This is not the kind of thing that any FBI director has ever done,” Mckebe said on CNN, where he is an analyst. “FBI director search warrants and goals of warrants that point to those.”
David Urban, senior advisor to the former Trump’s expedition, who also serves as a commentator on the network, admitted the FBI raid “it is really a bad eye” and timing “looks political”, seeing Trump’s outspoken criticism, but maintained “there could be something.”
– Rebecca Beats contributed reporting.
