John BoltonWho was that house and office? Searched by federal agents On Friday, he was one of the president’s most vocal critics. Donald Trump This is the first time since serving as national security adviser in Trump’s first administration.
After serving in the White House, Bolton wrote a stern book depicting Trump as being grossly uninformed about foreign policy. The search for FBI agent Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington office is said to be part of an investigation into the handling of classified information, raising possible issues of future action against critics of the Republican president who expressed his opinion.
Bolton is not in custody and has not been charged with a crime. Those who are not permitted to discuss the investigation by the name they submitted to the Associated Press regarding terms of anonymity.
Find out more about Bolton, a Republican and foreign policy hawk.
He served as one of Trump’s national security advisers.
Bolton served as Trump’s third national security adviser, appointed in 2018 after Trump was rejected HR McMaster.
Bolton’s 17-month tenure has been raging over clashes over countries, including North Korea and Iran, and he has expressed skepticism about Trump’s outreach. Summit with Kim Jong-un. In Iran, Bolton supported Trump’s decision to withdraw Iran’s nuclear deal But he was frustrated when Trump adjourned his planned military strike in 2019, in support of a change of administration.
These rifts ultimately led to Bolton’s departure, and Trump announced on social media in September 2019 that he had accepted Bolton’s resignation.
AP Audio: What you need to know about John Bolton, a former Trump advisor whose home and office is being searched by the FBI
Speaking to reporters, President Trump said he saw the news reports but had no details about the search for former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton.
He wrote a poignant book about Trump’s first administration
Bolton’s 2020 books“The Room That It Happened” depicted a fierce portrait of Trump and his administration, and was the most vivid first-person account at the time of how Trump was in office. The 577-page book portrays Trump as being grossly uninformed about foreign policy, with Bolton writing that the president “seeing the plot behind the rocks and being surprisingly uninformed about how to run the White House.”
Bolton said Trump usually only had two intelligence briefings a week while he was in the White House.
In Ukraine, Bolton argued that Trump directly linked military aid to his willingness to conduct an investigation into Trump’s 2020 Democratic election rival and Joe Biden, who will soon become a member of his family. In one conversation, Trump said, “He was not in favor of sending anything of them until all Russian investment materials related to Clinton and Biden were handed over.” Bolton wrote.
Bolton also wrote, “I find it difficult to identify Trump’s decision during my tenure, not driven by reelection calculations.”
Trump responded by denounced Bolton as the “washed man” and as the “crazy” warman who led the country to “World War I 6.” Trump also said the book contained “highly categorized information” and that Bolton said it had “no approval” to make it public.
The White House worked furiously to block the book and failed to seek an emergency temporary restraining order in federal court to its release.
His criticism continues, including recently.
In an interview aired on NPR on Wednesday, Bolton said there has been little change to ending the war between Russia and Ukraine, pointing to Trump’s efforts to secure the Nobel Peace Prize as an incentive to end the president’s conflict.
“There is no indication that Russia has somehow changed its purpose. It is to bring Ukraine into the larger Russian Empire,” Bolton said. “There is no real indication that Zelensky is ready to do what Russia demanded of President Trump, such as Donetsk Oblast, whom the Russians still could not conquer militaryally, and giving away a substantial portion of the state.”
On Thursday, Bolton posted to X, “Putin’s KGB training and flattering campaign is working on Trump. As I recently saw in Trump’s statement that Ukraine should not wage war, it’s important to remember. Ukraine has not been violated.”
And in an August 14 interview with CBS News, Bolton denounced Trump’s previous decision. He talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaskacontinues its criticism following the meeting at X.
“In Alaska, President Trump didn’t lose, but Putin clearly won,” Bolton posted. “His old friend Donald has returned to Vladimir.”
Trump reportedly doesn’t like Bolton’s mustache
Trump has spent a career sticking to the image, praised the impressive looks of praise and frequently boasted about his family and cabinet officials who appear to have “get out of central casting.”
Bolton’s bushy mustache It simply didn’t fit the parts.
During the transition period after the 2016 election, Trump reportedly refused to choose Bolton to take on the role of Secretary of State because he hated the bushy mustache of his signature. Following his meeting with Bolton at Trump Tower, Trump told his confidants that Hawk’s trademark mustache would never fit his administration.
But according to Bolton’s 2019 book, the president told him that the hair on his face was “never a factor” to appoint him to any position.
He supported the George W. Bush war in Iraq.
When George W. Bush became president, Bolton served as the State Department’s point man in arms control, where he fought nuclear weapons testing, land, biological weapons, ballistic missile restrictions, and other governments at the International Criminal Court.
A supporter of the embarrassment of American power and a strong supporter of the Iraq War, Bolton failed to win the Senate confirmation after the UN postal nomination turned off many Democrats and even some Republicans. He resigned after serving 17 months as an appointment for Bush’s recess and was able to temporarily hold work without confirmation from the Senate.
Bolton also established himself in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
He contemplated the run for the president
In preparation for the 2024 campaign, Bolton said he was willing to run after Trump, obsessed with the loss of the 2020 election in 2022, and he was hoping to revive his power in search of the constitution.
“This type and scale of fraud allows us to close all the rules, regulations and articles we see in the Constitution,” Trump wrote on his social media site, but no evidence has emerged in support of his claims.
Bolton called the comment “disqualified” and cast a second Trump terminology as a threat to national security.
He was also considering operations in both 2012 and 2016. He later approved and advised final GOP candidate Mitt Romney.
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Eric Tucker contributed a report from Washington.
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This story was revised to show that Mitt Romney is not the current US Senator.
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