The FBI raids are from the Maison du Maryland de John Bolton in classified document probe, say sources

FBI agents made a descent into the home of Maryland of former national security advisor John Bolton on Friday morning, Fox News Digital learned.

Fox News Digital then spotted Bolton agents in Bolton in Washington, DC, office suppression boxes and Bolton was seen in the building hall.

Research is focused on potential classified documents that agents think that Bolton can still have, according to a source.

Bolton, who was the national security advisor to President Donald Trump from 2018 to 2019, is not in detention or in arrest. Trump said he was not aware of the raid in advance and said he had discovered it in the news.

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Friday morning, federal agents made a descent into the home of Maryland of the former national security adviser John Bolton, according to two main sources of application of the government informed of the issue. (Str / Nurphoto via Getty Images)

Federal agents would have burst into Bolton’s house in Bolton in Bethesda, Maryland, around 7 am, local time in an investigation commanded by FBI director Kash Patel, who went to X with a cryptic position a few minutes later.

“No one is above the law … @fbi agents on a mission,” he wrote without directly references the raid.

The deputy director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, shared the post and wrote: “Public corruption will not be tolerated.”

Meanwhile, the Attorney General Pam Bondi also warned: “America’s security is not negotiable. Justice will be continued.” Always. “

Watch: FBI agents load boxes in a car after searches the DC office of John Bolton

Trump told journalists that he had seen the raid on television on Friday morning and said he did not know any details on the investigation.

“He’s not an intelligent guy, but he could be very antipatriotic,” said Trump. “I mean, we will discover it. I know nothing about it. I just saw him this morning.”

CIA director John Ratcliffe provided Patel with limited access to American intelligence that served as a basis for the search mandate, a source familiar with the Bolton Raid and the evidence used to justify it to Fox News Digital.

“I can’t give you more details than that, but let’s just say that John Bolton really has a cheek to attack Trump for classified information management,” the source told Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital called Bolton’s office to comment. A staff member replied, said: “Have a good day”, then hung up.

The survey on classified documents was launched for the first time years ago, but later closed by the Biden administration “for political reasons”, according to a senior American official.

The Ministry of Justice under the first administration of Trump argued that Bolton’s memories in 2020, “the room where it happened”, contained classified equipment and sought to block its publication. A federal judge finally allowed the publication of the book.

FBI agents outside the Maryland home of former national security advisor John Bolton on August 22, 2025. (Fox News Digital)

FBI agents are seen to load boxes in a vehicle after searches the DC office of the former National Security Advisor John Bolton on August 22, 2025. (Fox News Digital)

The lawyers of the Ministry of Justice argued that the book contained classified information on national security covering areas such as sources and methods of American intelligence, foreign policy deliberations and conversations with foreign leaders.

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In June 2021, the Biden Ministry of Justice abandoned both a criminal investigation and a civil trial against Bolton on the Memoirs, ending the legal battle at that time.

FBI agents load bags in a vehicle after carrying out a search at the Washington, DC office, former national security advisor John Bolton on August 22, 2025. (Fox News Digital)

An FBI agent has a box outside the DC office of John Bolton after research on August 22, 2025, linked to a classified document probe. (Fox News Digital)

Bolton’s lawyer said at the time that a senior career official in charge of examining the prepublication of the NSC had carried out a four -month prepublication examination of the book and, after needing a certain number of revisions, concluded that it did not contain any classified information.

The book contained an overwhelming account of Trump’s White House, alleging that Trump had once “pleaded” Chinese President Xi Jinping to help his re -election campaign, among other faux pas.

Trump ousted Bolton from his first administration in 2019 because they “did not agree” on politics.

Bolton has both welcomed and criticized Trump since he left his first administration.

National National Security Advisor John Bolton listens to President Donald Trump meets Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands at the Oval Office of the White House on July 18, 2019, in Washington, DC (Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

He criticized the processing by Trump of classified documents, which led to an FBI raid on the Mar-A-Lago home of the former president in 2022 and a subsequent federal accusation act, but insisted that “the legal process takes place”.

Trump was initially charged with 37 crime counts later at 40, but the case was finally rejected in July 2024.

In 2022, Bolton said Trump did not have the competence and the character to be president.

However, Bolton firmly supported Trump’s military strike on Iranian nuclear installations in June, calling “a decisive action”, “the right thing to do” and renting his potential to generate “a huge change in the Middle East”.

Trump, on the other hand, has often criticized Bolton for pushing us to get involved in wars in the Middle East. Bolton was an ambassador of the United States to the United Nations under President George W. Bush from August 2005 to December 2006.

“I am not a fan of John Bolton. He is a real, a kind of low life,” said Trump on Friday before adding that Bolton served a useful objective in his administration because foreign leaders feared him.

“He was one of the people who forced Bush to make ridiculous bombing in the Middle East. And he still wants to kill people.”

Trump added: “And he is very bad in what he does … I was going to a room with him, with a foreign country would give me everything because they said, oh no, they will explode because John Bolton was there.”

Trump revoked the details of Bolton’s secret services the day after Trump’s inauguration while the 47th president and Bolton said that this decision was showing that Trump came after him.

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“I think it is a chairmanship of remuneration,” said Bolton in ABC earlier this month with regard to the stripping of his protection of secret services.

Bolton faced threats from Iran going up for years, including an alleged plot for assassinating it in 2021 and the Ministry of Justice later accusing a member of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard for the conspiracy in 2022.

Iranian threats to Bolton were probably launched by the United States strike in January 2020, which killed Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s head of Iran, reported the Ministry of Justice in 2022.

Police from the county of Montgomery blocks a road near the home of Maryland of the former national security advisor John Bolton during a search for the FBI on August 22, 2025. (Fox News Digital)