The backstage of the FBI investigation faced by John Bolton, Trump's former adviser. The reaction of the US president

John Bolton, former presidential adviser for national security in Donald Trump's first term at the White House, later became a vehement critic of the current president, is aimed at an investigation of the US Justice Department. Authorities are investigating if he violated the law when he shared with unauthorized persons what Trump administration officials consider to be classified information.

The agents of the Federal Investigation Bureau descended at Bolton's house in Bethesda, a suburb of Washington, at 7 in the morning, as part of an investigation by the FBI director, Kash Patel, according to the New York Post Conservative, which reported the first about RAID.

The investigation is based on the long accusations of Donald Trump that his former counselor incorrectly managed classified documents, including writing a book about the period in the first administration of the Republican President.

After returning to the White House, Trump revoked the former Security Authorization to his former counselor. It is an offense even for people with authorized access to remove many sensitive documents from their storage space, which can represent a breach of espionage.

John Bolton, dismissed by Donald Trump in 2019, was targeted in 2020 by a criminal investigation that started from the accusations that he distributed passages from his book's manuscript to unauthorized persons, before obtaining the final approval from the Government, necessary before publication, according to a person to be aware.

FBI obtained emails that seemed to show that Bolton was working on the manuscript of his book while he was still at the White House and that he shared passages with his representatives who helped to publish it, the source added. The initial passages of the manuscript included material restricted by the federal law regulating the classified documents, the same source said.

CNN said that he contacted John Bolton and his lawyer to give them the opportunity to comment on the subject of the alleged emails.

After the Biden Administration came to power, the federal prosecutors abandoned the investigation, and a separate civil trial was rejected, without any accusation, so that the case was closed.

It is unclear for the moment if investigators have discovered new information to open the current investigation, writes CNN.

Bolton initially claimed he didn't think he had classified information in the book

The fact that Bolton did not receive the final approval before publishing “The Room Where It Happened”, a report of the period in which he was a adviser to Trump (2018-2019), was the focus of the Legal Litigal that started in 2020. classified from their memoirs.

After leaving the White House, Bolton found a book publishing house, then used his lawyer for the manuscript to be availed by the National Security Council.

Initially, according to the court documents, lawyer Charles Cooper said that Bolton did not believe that he needed a review of publication, because he did not think he had classified information in the manuscript. However, the Government's team did not agree, so he collaborated with him to edit the manuscript, without ever confirming in writing that he gave him a green wave for publication.

Two days before the work was printed and distributed to shops and book criticisms, a lawyer of the National Security Council to inform Bolton's lawyer that the manuscript still contained classified information.

The Department of Justice went to court to block the publication – at that time, considered an extraordinary measure. However, a Federal judge in Washington refused to do so, given the first amendment of the US Constitution and especially the fact that book sellers already had manuscript in hand.

“Bolton probably endangered national security by disclosing classified information, violating his privacy agreements,” wrote judge Royce Lambeth at that time from the D district court. “Even though Bolton acted from an abundance of precaution in presenting his manuscript for examination, the existence of his caution leads to a justified deduction that Bolton was less secure in terms of the status of the manuscript,” the judge noted.

The Biden administration withdrew the trial before Lambeth could fully evaluate the facts. A criminal investigation of the great jury did not lead to any accusation and was closed in the first months of the new power.

At the time of withdrawal, Bolton's lawyer said that the Biden administration “tacitly acknowledged that President Trump and his officials at the White House were illegitimate.”

Donald Trump's reaction after Friday's searches: “A bastard”

The US president was asked by journalists about this case on Friday, and called “bastard” on John Bolton, but claimed that he knew nothing about the FBI search at his former councilor's house.

“I am not a fan of John Bolton,” Donald Trump said on Friday at The People's House, near the White House, according to USA Today. “He is a real bastard,” added the Republican leader.

In 2015, a few weeks after announcing his first candidacy for the White House, Trump had said that John Bolton “likes him and he” knows what he is talking about, “according to Fox News.

Bolton, who was also US ambassador to the UN, became a critic of the president after being removed from the administration. Trump announced that he had dismissed from the position of national security counselor in September 2019, invoking “numerous” misunderstandings with him.