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BumRushDaShow

(160,871 posts)
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 09:59 AM Aug 22

Kash Patel posts cryptic message amid Bolton raid

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.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5465239-kash-patel-posts-cryptic-message-amid-bolton-raid/



Obvious choreography for the media to keep the "Squirell!!!!"s going.
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Kash Patel posts cryptic message amid Bolton raid (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 22 OP
Trump wants firing squads C_U_L8R Aug 22 #1
"no one is above the law"......................... Lovie777 Aug 22 #2
except tiny fingers 👉 Historic NY Aug 22 #18
And every grifter that joined him nt blue_jay Aug 22 #21
Translation: you are next BoRaGard Aug 22 #20
"No one is above the law" durablend Aug 22 #3
Is this raid yet another Epstein distraction? hmmm vapor2 Aug 22 #4
The day after Trump win$ on the 8th Amendment while inflicting cruel and unusual punishment underpants Aug 22 #5
Another link from a right wing rag gab13by13 Aug 22 #6
Hmmmm....kind of a self own....... surfered Aug 22 #7
How long before Bolton is charged with D. Spaulding Aug 22 #8
And how much will he get in the eventual lawsuit for harassment? Scrivener7 Aug 22 #11
Gotta keep edging the epstein files out of the spotlight PSPS Aug 22 #9
must be markie Aug 22 #10
"No one is above the law" Thanks, I needed a good laugh. Patel must have quite the short memory. His boss? Firestorm49 Aug 22 #12
Bulwork reporter there at Bolton home. They think it is probably about Bolton's Book from 2020. mackdaddy Aug 22 #13
And he was teasing stuff from his book BumRushDaShow Aug 22 #14
"NO ONE is above the law...@FBI agents on mission," this has been republianmushroom Aug 22 #15
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, "This is not the kind of thing that any FBI director has ever done," riversedge Aug 22 #16
"Bela" maxsolomon Aug 22 #17
"Rosebud" BumRushDaShow Aug 22 #19
Your day will come KASHYAP! Jilly_in_VA Aug 22 #22
This!!! calimary Aug 22 #29
maga is above the law samsingh Aug 22 #23
Theatre of the absurd. n/t TheFourthMind Aug 22 #24
THEN ARREST TRUMP RIGHT FUCKING NOW, KA$H! Kid Berwyn Aug 22 #25
So i wonder what they will plant?...nt Figarosmom Aug 22 #26
So much for innocent until proven guilty... ultralite001 Aug 22 #27
Kashyap Pramod Patel -- have you heard of him? Blue Owl Aug 22 #28
ROFL pat_k Aug 22 #30
Who knew Kash Patel was so funny! "No one is above the law"?!? Timeflyer Aug 23 #31

C_U_L8R

(48,168 posts)
1. Trump wants firing squads
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 10:06 AM
Aug 22

You know he's asked.

he's so fucking pathetic in his desperate yearning to be feared.

Lovie777

(20,489 posts)
2. "no one is above the law".........................
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 10:07 AM
Aug 22

the ugly non reality strikes too often.

Are shithole's allies real? Right now yes, until reality hits.

BoRaGard

(7,586 posts)
20. Translation: you are next
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:49 PM
Aug 22

unless you toe the line, zip your mouth shut, and keep paying taxes so republicon billionaires can get special financial benefits

underpants

(193,257 posts)
5. The day after Trump win$ on the 8th Amendment while inflicting cruel and unusual punishment
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 10:13 AM
Aug 22

on people.

Makes perfect MAGA sense.

surfered

(9,448 posts)
7. Hmmmm....kind of a self own.......
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 10:20 AM
Aug 22


No one..not Trump, the Jan 6 rioters, Bannon, Manafort….nope, nobody

Firestorm49

(4,452 posts)
12. "No one is above the law" Thanks, I needed a good laugh. Patel must have quite the short memory. His boss?
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 10:33 AM
Aug 22

mackdaddy

(1,873 posts)
13. Bulwork reporter there at Bolton home. They think it is probably about Bolton's Book from 2020.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 10:40 AM
Aug 22

They said he wrote a book about his time in Trumpworld and submitted it for review which was dragged out but finally cleared. But, the Trump admin wanted another review but Bolton had published, and the Trump FBI had an investigation which was closed under Biden.

This is apparently at the end of the Statute of Limitations but Trump retaliation where he can get it.

republianmushroom

(21,487 posts)
15. "NO ONE is above the law...@FBI agents on mission," this has been
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 11:59 AM
Aug 22

proven to be a myth. The orange Asshole criminal is not in jail.

“Public corruption will not be tolerated.”, beg to differ with this, by, that same orange Asshole criminal is still walks among us and is not in jail.

Dudes, the classified information, you are looking for is in a bath room in Mar-a-Lago.

The DOJ lies and has for many years.

riversedge

(77,995 posts)
16. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, "This is not the kind of thing that any FBI director has ever done,"
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 11:59 AM
Aug 22



....Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who has criticized the bureau’s leadership under the Trump administration, called the post “yet another example of, in my opinion, Kash Patel failing to live up to the example of his predecessors.”

“This is not the kind of thing that any FBI director has ever done,” McCabe said on CNN, where he is an analyst. “FBI directors don’t gratuitously point toward search warrants and the people who are targets of those warrants.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5465239-kash-patel-posts-cryptic-message-amid-bolton-raid/

samsingh

(18,187 posts)
23. maga is above the law
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 03:04 PM
Aug 22

and thanks to the last election results, so are insurrectionists that support maga

ultralite001

(2,076 posts)
27. So much for innocent until proven guilty...
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 03:53 PM
Aug 22

Presumption of innocence is not guaranteed in the US Constitution; however, through statutes + court decisions (such as the US Supreme Court case of Taylor v Kentucky) -- presumption of innocence has been recognized as one of the most basic requirements of a fair trial.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/presumption_of_innocence


A presumption of innocence means that any defendant in a criminal trial is assumed to be innocent until they have been proven guilty. As such, a prosecutor is required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the person committed the crime if that person is to be convicted. To do so, proof must be shown for every single element of a crime. That being said, a presumption of innocence does not guarantee that a person will remain free until their trial has concluded. In some circumstances, a person can be held in custody.

pat_k

(11,916 posts)
30. ROFL
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 06:10 PM
Aug 22

Keep shouting that canard from the rooftops. More than half the nation has always known the truth. And the reality is dawning on more and more of those who brought us here with their intentional blindness.

This is how 47 regime "law" works:

If 47 decides you are "on his side," no law will be enforced against you.

If 47 decides you are against him, they will break whatever laws they need to to exact retribution.




Timeflyer

(3,443 posts)
31. Who knew Kash Patel was so funny! "No one is above the law"?!?
Sat Aug 23, 2025, 08:00 AM
Aug 23

And that Bongino guy--"public corruption will not be tolerated" ?!? Hilarious!

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