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Early this morning, FBI director Kash Patel cheekily posted on social media “NO ONE is above the regulation…@FBI brokers on mission” as raids had been carried out on the Maryland residence and Washington, D.C. workplace of John Bolton, Donald Trump’s nationwide safety adviser in his first time period. The raid was reportedly associated to a labeled paperwork probe
Apropos of ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL, since Bolton was fired in September 2019, he’s been a thorn in Trump’s facet. Bolton’s 2020 e book “The Room The place It Occurred,” was sharply important of Trump’s lack of know-how on all issues international policy-related. Trump threatened to jail Bolton over the e book, and the DOJ launched an investigation into Bolton over the likelihood that he “unlawfully disclosed labeled data” in mentioned e book. That investigation was closed underneath President Joe Biden.
Trump additionally lashed out on the media for “continually quoting fired losers and actually dumb individuals like John Bolton.” And Trump canceled Bolton’s Secret Service element (offered within the wake of a assassination plot) shortly after taking workplace in his second time period. Sources near Bolton now name the present raids “retribution, pure and easy.”
And naturally, the irony meter is off the charts with information the Trump administration really cares about how labeled paperwork are dealt with. In any sane judicial system, Donald Trump himself would have stood trial for his dealing with of labeled paperwork after his loss within the 2020 presidential election. However the case towards Trump was assigned to Trump-appointed district choose Aileen Cannon, who dismissed the case final summer time on the, ermmm, novel concept that particular counsels are by some means unlawful. The dismissal was on attraction to the Eleventh Circuit when Trump took workplace, after which the Division of Justice dropped the attraction.
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