FBI conducts search at Trump critic John Bolton’s home and office as part of resumed national security investigation.

FBI conducts search at John Bolton’s home CNN — The FBI conducted a court-authorized search at former national security adviser John Bolton’s home and office as part of a renewed investigation into whether he disclosed classified information in his 2020 book, according to two people familiar with the matter. The investigative step immediately drew criticism that Trump was using the muscle of the US government to target a political foe, though the specific basis for the searches was not clear. Bolton served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser in his first term 2019, but the president fired him and the two have been at odds ever since. Trump had previously threatened to jail for Bolton over the 2020 book, which was critical of Trump’s foreign policy knowledge, and the Justice Department investigated him in Trump’s first-term. That probe was closed under President Joe Biden. CNN observed FBI personnel at Bolton’s house in the Washington, DC, area on Friday morning. They were seen speaking to a person on the porch of the house, and at least four to six agents were seen going inside. Some of the agents took bags out of the vehicles to bring inside, but nothing was seen coming out of the residence. The FBI also was searching Bolton’s office on Friday morning, according to a source. CNN saw several unmarked federal vehicles the building in downtown Washington. While the searches stemmed from the Justice Department reopening the years-old investigation involving the book, investigators are also exploring other possible leaks as a form of “weaponization,” a source said. Asked about the search on Friday, Trump told reporters he knew “nothing about it.” He added that he expected the Justice Department to brief him likely later in the day and suggested he had the power to initiate law enforcement moves. But Vice President JD Vance later said in an interview for Meet the Press with Kristen Welker that “classified documents are certainly part of it, but I think that there’s a broad concern about, about Ambassador Bolton.”