Former United States ambassador, John Bolton has become a fierce detract of the American president whom he considers unfit to exercise power.
US federal police (FBI) has searched the home of former Donald Trump advisor John Bolton as part of a national security investigation. FBI agents entered and released early Friday from the house in the suburbs of the Washington capital of this former senior official at the White House, noted an AFP journalist.
John Bolton served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations and national security advisor at the White House during the first term of President Donald Trump, but he has since become one of the most fervent criticisms of the American president.
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“No one is above the law … FBI agents are on a mission”said on X the director of the federal police, Kash Patel, without this close ally of Donald Trump specifying which case he was referring to.
According to the tabloid New York Postwho quotes an official of the Trump administration, the investigation would have been ordered directly by Kash Patel.
Back in the White House in January, Donald Trump had signed an executive decree accusing John Bolton of having revealed “Sensitive information from the time it was” At the White House, from 2018 to 2019. He also deprived his former adviser to protect secrecy, the agency responsible for protecting high political personalities in the United States, and had treated it«idiot». He also cut him off all access to security and intelligence data.
John Bolton then said he was “Disappointed but not surprised” of the decision. Saying the target of an assassination project fomented by Iran between 2021 and 2022, he also said in January: “The threat remains”. Tehran would have wanted to avenge the death of his general Qassem Soleimani, killed on January 3, 2020 in a drone strike in Iraq ordered by Donald Trump during his first mandate (2017-2021).
“Unfit”
With his face crossed by a thick mustache, this 76 -year -old republican had become international as an ambassador to the UN under the chairmanship of George W. Bush during the war in Iraq. After his dismissal by Donald Trump, he had started to take a stand against the policies carried out by the Republican. In a book published in 2020, John Bolton had presented his former boss as obsessed with his only re -election and “unfit” to direct the world’s leading power.
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Recently, he criticized the summit between the American president and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska. “In Alaska, President Trump has not lost, but Putin clearly won, Vladimir has his old friend Donald back”had he launched on X.
At the time of the appointment of Kash Patel at the head of the FBI, elected democrats had expressed their strong opposition. Democratic senator Dick Durbin had feared that this former federal prosecutor, faithful of Donald Trump, will use his new role for “Referring to his political enemies”. During his hearing in the Senate at the end of January, Kash Patel, however, denied having a “List of enemies”and assured that “All FBI agents (would be) protected against political reprisals”.
For several months, figures of the movement «MAGA» De Donald Trump claim that the Ministry of Justice as the FBI attack the opponents of the Republican President, particularly those involved in the prosecution against the participants in the Capitole assault on January 6, 2021