Kash Patel posts cryptic message amid Bolton raid [View all]

Source: The Hill

08/22/25 8:56 AM ET


FBI Director Kash Patel posted a cryptic message Friday morning amid reports that federal agents were conducting a raid at the home of John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser. “NO ONE is above the law…@FBI agents on mission,” Patel wrote on social platform X shortly after 7 a.m., without mentioning anyone by name.

Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino shared Patel’s comment in a separate post, adding, “Public corruption will not be tolerated.” Vice President Vance also reshared the FBI chief’s post. The agency declined to comment to The Hill on the meaning of the posts.

An FBI official and another source familiar with the matter confirmed to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, that agents conducted a search at Bolton’s home in Bethesda, Md., near Washington, D.C., on Friday morning. The search is related to classified information, sources told NewsNation and other outlets.

Bolton, who served in Trump’s first administration, has been a vocal critic of the president’s foreign policy, particularly his handling of the Russia-Ukraine war. In his own post on Friday morning around the time of the reported FBI raid, Bolton posted on X to further criticize the administration.

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