An angry-looking John Bolton has finally returned home after an 8-hour FBI raid on his home. BREAKING: After an almost 8 HOUR FBI raid, John Bolton was just seen returning home And Bolton does NOT look happy This deep state hack deserves EVERY SECOND of this… and everything that’s about to come for him. FBI is just getting started, John! pic.twitter.com/3CwGABN9fE — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 22, 2025 TRANSCRIPT: All right, we’re gonna get back to that in just a second, but here’s live pictures of what we believe is John Bolton returning home. We had a picture of his SUV leaving his office a short time ago, and now it looks like it’s made its way with about a 30-minute trip to his home. And there’s the ambassador, coming up, briefcase in hand, waving to the assembled media, and going inside the front door of the home. We will see, it doesn’t look like it at this point, if he decides to come out and talk. I mean, John Bolton does talk to the media an awful lot, but he has chosen to remain silent at this point. Nicole Parker is with us, and Nicole, it looks as though this investigation, at least the search of Bolton’s home and his office, has wrapped up. What do you expect might be in the boxes that came out at the hands of FBI agents, and where does this go next? This is reportedly the wife, and saying she looks “unhappy” would be an understatement. She looks half dead if I’m being honest! John Bolton’s wife looked like she’d just come face-to-face with a ghost this morning. pic.twitter.com/Pe3MEN9WZD — Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) August 22, 2025 Yikes! Here’s what it looked like 5 hours into the raid, still going extremely strong: BREAKING AFTER 5 HOURS THE FBI is still at John Bolton’s house conducting their raid. I love it I hope John Bolton is enjoying every minute of it GRAB EVERYTHING pic.twitter.com/Hotu5FZm5C — MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) August 22, 2025 I thought this was an excellent post from BioClandestine…there’s a reason why they chose to hit Bolton first. Very well said: The public raids have begun! John Bolton’s home raided after Trump took away his clearance and detail earlier this year. What a great person to start with. He is republican, so the MSM cannot spin that this is politically motivated, but the public are getting used to the sight… pic.twitter.com/OtqguJBXJ9 — Clandestine (@WarClandestine) August 22, 2025 The public raids have begun! John Bolton’s home raided after Trump took away his clearance and detail earlier this year. What a great person to start with. He is republican, so the MSM cannot spin that this is politically motivated, but the public are getting used to the sight of Trump raiding high-profile politicians/bureaucrats. We start with the more digestible ones, then work our way up to the more controversial ones. Nobody likes Bolton, so this will not be too hard for the public to accept. This raid comes after Trump was mysteriously tweeting at 2AM about how DC is safer, after he told us that he was supposedly going on a patrol with law enforcement and US MIL to “do a job”. This also comes after Trump has fully secured DC with the National Guard. It’s starting to get real. And if you were interested in the tone over at CNN, I’ve got you covered. Scott Jennings is having a field day with this one: NOW: Scott Jennings just used John Bolton’s own words to hang him after the FBI raid on his home.@ScottJenningsKY reminded everyone what Bolton said after the Mar-a-Lago raid on Trump—insisting that the same standard must apply today. pic.twitter.com/pmbCMTiRYu — The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) August 22, 2025 Hey John, remember when you said no one was above the law? I do! John Bolton was really enthusiastic about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. “No one is above the law.” I wonder if he feels the same way about today’s FBI raid on his house. pic.twitter.com/hsBPGzJbak — Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 22, 2025 Fox News had more details on the fast-evolving story: The FBI launched a raid Friday morning into the home and office of John Bolton — President Donald Trump’s national security advisor from 2018 and 2019 — months after Trump yanked Bolton’s security clearance in January upon taking office. The two men have a long history of trading barbs following Bolton’s exit from Trump’s first administration — all of which escalated after Bolton sought to publish a memoir in 2020 that included some unflattering details about his time in the White House. While Trump has labeled Bolton a “wacko” and a “dope,” Bolton has had his fair share of harsh words for the president. “I don’t think he’s fit for office,” Bolton said in an interview with ABC News in June 2020, ahead of his memoir’s release. “I don’t think he has the competence to carry out the job.” “There really isn’t any guiding principle that I was able to discern other than what’s good for Donald Trump’s reelection,” Bolton said at the time. “I think he was so focused on the reelection that longer-term considerations fell by the wayside.” Bolton also characterized Trump as lacking focus on policy while being very fixated on himself — to the detriment of national security matters. “His policymaking is so incoherent, so unfocused, so unstructured, so wrapped around his own personal political fortunes, that mistakes are being made that will have grave consequences for the national security of the United States,” Bolton also said in an ABC interview in June 2020. The first Trump administration sought to block the release of Bolton’s memoir, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” and asserted it contained classified material. The book alleged that Trump “pleaded” Chinese President Xi Jinping to support Trump’s reelection campaign, and called the president “stunningly uninformed.” While the Justice Department attempted to prevent its publication on the grounds that the book disclosed classified matters pertaining to U.S. intelligence sources and methods, a federal judge signed off on the publication of the book, which ultimately was published June 23, 2020. Meanwhile, Trump discredited Bolton’s assertions included in the book, and hurled his own insults back at Bolton. “Many of the ridiculous statements he attributes to me were never made, pure fiction,” Trump said in a social media post June 18, 2020. “Just trying to get even for firing him like the sick puppy he is!” “Wacko John Bolton’s ‘exceedingly tedious’(New York Times) book is made up of lies & fake stories. Said all good about me, in print, until the day I fired him,” Trump said in a separate social media post on June 18, 2020. “A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war. Never had a clue, was ostracized & happily dumped. What a dope!” Bolton departed his post at the White House in September 2019. While Bolton said that he left due to his own volition, Trump claimed that he fired Bolton. RELATED REPORT: BOOMERANG: FBI Raids John Bolton’s Home and Office In Early Morning Raid…Faces 5-20 Years In Prison! The sweet Boomerang of justice is flying again today, and it started early with a raid on John Bolton's home and office. In what can only be described as almost a mirror-image of the Mar-a-Lago raid, things are about to get very interesting! This is called a BOOMERANG ? 3 Years ago, miraculously almost to this day, John Bolton was on MSNBC discussing how horrible Trump was for taking Classifed Documents to Mar-A-Lago Fast forward to today, John Bolton’s home and office was raided… looking for Classified… https://t.co/dam22xYrZw pic.twitter.com/aRDTgSS11N — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) August 22, 2025 Of course President Trump was completely exonerated and clearly within his rights as President, but John Bolton?  Time will tell. It's clear that Patel's FBI believes they have something here. Both Patel and Bongino has posted this morning making it clear that no one is above the law and they're going full steam after everyone: Dan Bongino and Kash Patel react to the early morning raids on John Bolton’s home and office. People are going to jail. pic.twitter.com/KpZO6bSASi — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 22, 2025 In addition to raiding his home, they also hit his office: BREAKING: The FBI is now raiding John Bolton’s OFFICE after banging down the door of his DC-area home This is a GREAT Friday morning so far Deep state John Bolton could be facing 10-20 YEARS in prison in this national security probe MUCH deserved! pic.twitter.com/ObcqeGx9NU — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 22, 2025 Here is more from Fox News live on the air this morning: The FBI also raided John Bolton’s Office in Washington D.C. Fox says Bolton was spotted at his office earlier today.https://t.co/m3nRpLNcgn https://t.co/4niOgohUv0 pic.twitter.com/XJv0v1Lrhc — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) August 22, 2025 Greg Kelly reports Bolton was forced to wait in his driveway in his underpants, but I cannot confirm that report: John Bolton, BUSTED! The FBI “knocked on his door” at 7am and searched his House. All kinds of Swamp PLOTS to be found. Heard they make him wait in the DRIVEWAY. In his UNDERPANTS. “Lovin It” pic.twitter.com/qV5ifkVSJ4 — Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) August 22, 2025 Jonathan Turley told Fox News that Bolton could face up to 20 years in prison, but that each document could be a separate count so effectively this could turn into a life sentence if the worst plays out. Watch here: NEW: Jonathan Turley says John Bolton could be hit with up to 20 years in prison over national defense information: "It could be national defense information. That creates a heightened potential penalty...5 to 20 years." pic.twitter.com/53PWJ06bfi — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 22, 2025 President Trump was later asked about the raid and he said he saw it on the news but had no prior knowledge of it. I think this is the biggest poker face ever, but you gotta love it: The NY Post added these details: FBI agents raided the Maryland home and Washington, DC office of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton Friday morning in a high-profile national security probe involving classified documents. Federal agents went to Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post. They later went to Bolton’s office, but did not enter until a judge signed a warrant for that location late Friday morning. “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” Patel said in a cryptic post to X shortly after the raid began. Bolton has not been arrested and is not currently charged with any crimes, the official added. “He’s not a smart guy, but he could be a very unpatriotic guy,” President Trump told reporters of Bolton Friday morning. “We’re going to find out.” The raid came at the behest of Patel, with the president claiming that he had no advance knowledge of the operation. “I know nothing about it. I just saw it this morning … I tell [Attorney General] Pam [Bondi] and I tell the group: ‘I don’t want to know, but you have to do what you have to do. I don’t want to know about it.’” “I could know about it. I could be the one starting — and I’m actually the chief law enforcement officer — but I feel that it’s better this way.” It is not unusual for a president not to have been informed ahead of an FBI raid. Traditionally, the Justice Department has worked independently of the White House — especially on matters potentially tied to domestic politics. For example, former President Joe Biden said he was not given a heads-up about an August 2022 FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to recover national security papers sought by the National Archives. Here is more analysis from Fox News: BREAKING: The FBI has officially raided John Bolton’s home in the DC area as part of a major national security investigation. pic.twitter.com/pXuBUfd2ma — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 22, 2025 Roger Stone couldn't help but take a victory lap: Good morning. John Bolton. How does it feel to have your home raided at 6 o'clock in the morning? — Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) August 22, 2025 This is a breaking story, we'll continue to bring you updates as we have them.