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Early
this
morning,
FBI
director
Kash
Patel
cheekily
posted
on
social
media
“NO
ONE
is
above
the
law…@FBI
agents
on
mission”
as
raids
were
conducted
on
the
Maryland
home
and
Washington,
D.C.
office
of
John
Bolton,
Donald
Trump’s
national
security
adviser
in
his
first
term.
The
raid
was
reportedly
related
to
a
classified
documents
probe
Apropos
of
ABSOLUTELY
NOTHING
AT
ALL,
since
Bolton
was
fired
in
September
2019,
he’s
been
a
thorn
in
Trump’s
side.
Bolton’s
2020
book
“The
Room
Where
It
Happened,”
was
sharply
critical
of
Trump’s
lack
of
knowledge
on
all
things
foreign
policy-related.
Trump
threatened
to
jail
Bolton
over
the
book,
and
the
DOJ
launched
an
investigation
into
Bolton
over
the
possibility
that
he
“unlawfully
disclosed
classified
information”
in
said
book.
That
investigation
was
closed
under
President
Joe
Biden.
Trump
also
lashed
out
at
the
media
for
“constantly
quoting
fired
losers
and
really
dumb
people
like
John
Bolton.”
And
Trump
canceled
Bolton’s
Secret
Service
detail
(provided
in
the
wake
of
a
assassination
plot)
shortly
after
taking
office
in
his
second
term.
Sources
close
to
Bolton
now
call
the
current
raids
“retribution,
pure
and
simple.”
And
of
course,
the
irony
meter
is
off
the
charts
with
news
the
Trump
administration
actually
cares
about
how
classified
documents
are
handled.
In
any
sane
judicial
system,
Donald
Trump
himself
would
have
stood
trial
for
his
handling
of
classified
documents
after
his
loss
in
the
2020
presidential
election.
But
the
case
against
Trump
was
assigned
to
Trump-appointed
district
judge
Aileen
Cannon,
who
dismissed
the
case
last
summer
on
the,
ermmm,
novel
theory
that
special
counsels
are somehow
illegal.
The
dismissal
was
on
appeal
to
the
Eleventh
Circuit
when
Trump
took
office,
after
which
the
Department
of
Justice
dropped
the
appeal.
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