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EndlessWire

(8,058 posts)
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:18 AM Saturday

John Bolton may be an asshole, but

what the FBI has done regarding his book is unacceptable. Trump is using the arms of the government to pursue his personal list of enemies, which is anyone who ever prosecuted his own crimes or spoke against him.

Who knows if Bolton wrote lies or overstepped his boundaries. He still has free speech rights by the First Amendment. We may not like him, but his rights under the Constitution are to be protected despite that. Kash Patel is a bigger asshole than John Bolton.

The redress should have been through a civil suit. This isn't equal to what Trump did, which was to make off with classified documents and store them in his bathroom like toilet paper. Trump thinks it's acceptable for Bolton to have his house searched, because Trump went through it. If it's acceptable for Bolton to go though it simply because he published a book and spoke against Trump, then we have all given up our First Amendment rights to the whim of Trump.



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choie

(5,968 posts)
1. If we raided the houses of every republican
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:25 AM
Saturday

who lied in a book they wrote, all of those “authors” - including trump - would be raided.

EYESORE 9001

(28,852 posts)
2. I have called John Bolton many things over the years
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:27 AM
Saturday

but ‘stupid’ is not among the terms I’ve used to describe him. I believe that he anticipated this action from the rump regime and likely removed any evidence of disloyalty to dear leader before the FBI arrived. If evidence is found, I’d bet it was planted.

Bev54

(12,769 posts)
4. The Trump admin tried to stop Bolton's book in his first term, saying it contained classified into
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 12:40 PM
Saturday

Took it to court and was unable to stop it. He lost and he hates it!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/16/john-bolton-book-donald-trump-administration-suit

louis-t

(24,447 posts)
5. The only truth I've ever heard His Orangeness utter is
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 12:44 PM
Saturday

that John Bolton is a warmonger. True.

Efilroft Sul

(4,128 posts)
6. The FBI game plan is to go after Republicans who won't generate sympathy for being raided.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:14 PM
Saturday

Bolton is a "good" start, since MAGA and a lot of Democrats can't stand him. Expect Comey and other ex-FBI types under his watch to get raided next. Then, if the media collectively yawn and normalize such raids, the Cheneys are targeted next. That's when we start to see if there will be any significant push-back. If there isn't, the raids and subsequent imprisonments (expect these) will greatly accelerate. Adam Kinzinger is raided. The Lincoln Project guys are raided. The special interests' leaderships are raided. University leaders are raided. And then, MAGA moves on to the Democrats and MSNBC types, like the Bidens, the Obamas, the Pelosis, Adam Schiff, et al., down to Maddow, O'Donnell, Wallace, et al. And then it's the rest of us.

Like it or not, we have to back up people we couldn't stand on this board 10 and 20 years ago. If they go, we're not that far behind them.

flashman13

(1,482 posts)
10. No matter what you think of Bolton or his record - The ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND.
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:55 PM
Saturday

Trump and his ilk are the common enemy. There are far more of us than there are MAGAts. We must all come together to make those numbers count.

Again, please excuse my shouting.

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