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The FBI raid on John Bolton’s house final month led to the seizure of a number of computer systems, cell telephones, USB drives and paperwork in folders labeled “Trump,” amongst different objects, courtroom paperwork revealed Thursday.
The checklist of over a dozen objects seized from the Bethesda, Md., house of President Donald Trump’s former nationwide safety advisor was included in search warrant paperwork filed with the U.S. District Court docket for the District of Maryland.
Among the many expertise seized from Bolton’s house have been two iPhones – a crimson one with two digicam lenses and a black one in a black case – and three computer systems, together with a silver Dell XPS laptop computer with cables, a Dell Precision Tower pc mannequin 3620 and a Dell Inspiron 2330 pc. One Seagate exhausting drive and two Sandisk 64 gigabyte USB drives have been additionally seized.
The checklist reveals the FBI additionally took a white binder labeled, “Statements and Reflections to Allied Strikes…” and typed paperwork in folders labeled “Trump I-IV.”
BOLTON MAY BE IN HOT WATER AS FBI INVESTIGATION EXPANDS BEYOND CONTROVERSIAL BOOK
FBI brokers carry containers out of former nationwide safety adviser John Bolton’s home, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photograph/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
4 containers containing what federal officers known as “printed every day actions” have been additionally hauled from Bolton’s house.
The FBI raid on Aug. 22 is reportedly linked to a probe of mishandling categorised paperwork.
Bolton waves as he arrives at his home Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photograph/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Throughout Trump’s first administration, a probe into categorised paperwork was launched however later shut down by the Biden administration. The Justice Division argued that Bolton’s 2020 memoir, “The Room The place It Occurred,” contained categorised materials and tried to dam it from being revealed.
Days after the raid on his house, Bolton unleashed a blistering critique of Trump’s Ukraine coverage in an op-ed revealed within the Washington Examiner, claiming it’s marked by “confusion, haste and disarray.”
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Bolton mentioned Trump’s try to fast-track a peace deal was “inevitably” doomed, arguing the Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15 was organized at a tempo “virtually certainly unprecedented in fashionable historical past.”
Bolton listens as Trump holds a gathering within the Oval Workplace on the White Home on July 18, 2019, throughout Trump’s first time period. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Put up by way of Getty Photographs)
When reporters requested Trump concerning the raid shortly after it unfolded, the president didn’t maintain again his disdain for his former adviser.
“I’m not a fan of John Bolton. He’s an actual lowlife,” Trump advised reporters, including that he didn’t know concerning the raid forward of time, claiming he noticed it on tv. He went on to name Bolton “not a wise man” and mentioned “he might be very unpatriotic.”
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Bolton was Trump’s nationwide safety advisor in 2018 and 2019, till the pair had a falling out. Trump revoked Bolton’s safety clearance and Secret Service element in January 2025.
Fox Information Digital’s Rachel Wolf and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
