FBI agents raided the Bethesda, Md., home of former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday morning, marking a new tension point in his difficult relationship with President Donald Trump. Agents also raided Bolton’s D.C. office.

The reason behind the raids was reportedly linked to a probe of allegations that Bolton sent classified documents to his family from a private email server while working at the White House, according to the New York Post. The Post cited a Trump administration official who said FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the raid.

The outlet also reported that yet-to-be-unsealed search warrants reference a controversy over his memoir to establish a pattern of behavior. However, a senior U.S. official told the Post the probe was a "clean break" from the investigation regarding Bolton’s book.

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Shortly after the raid began, Patel wrote on X that "no one is above the law… [FBI] agents on a mission."

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino shared the post and wrote, "Public corruption will not be tolerated."

Bolton, who served in Trump’s first administration, has not been arrested or taken into custody. Trump revoked his security clearance and Secret Service detail in January 2025.

Trump was asked about the raid on Friday and said he did not know about it ahead of time, claiming he saw it on television. The president then made clear his disdain for his former national security adviser.

"I’m not a fan of John Bolton. He’s a real lowlife," Trump told reporters. He went on to call Bolton "not a smart guy" and said "he could be very unpatriotic."

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The president also said Bolton was "a very quiet person except on television if he can say something bad about Trump."

Vice President JD Vance told "Meet the Press" on Friday that "we’re in the very early stages of an ongoing investigation into John Bolton." Vance denied Bolton was being targeted for criticizing Trump.

A source familiar with the Bolton raid and the evidence used to justify it told Fox News Digital that "Bolton really had some nerve to attack Trump over his handling of classified information," but would not give more details.

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Bolton criticized Trump’s handling of classified documents after the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in 2022. Trump was later indicted on 37 felony counts, which expanded to 40 before the case was dropped in July 2024.

During Trump’s first administration, a probe into classified documents was launched but later shut down by the Biden administration. The Justice Department argued that Bolton’s 2020 memoir, "The Room Where it Happened," contained classified material and attempted to block it from being published. 

The FBI and Bolton’s office declined to comment on the matter.

Reporting contributed by Axios and Fox News’ Michael Dorgan, David Spunt, Breanne Deppisch, Emma Woodhead and Brooke Singman.

HBO host Bill Maher urged the Democratic Party on Friday to see how President Donald Trump has become a "master" at picking off their voters.

During the latest episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," the comedian admitted that while Trump doesn’t run on protecting democracy or other high-minded American ideals, he knows how to sell obvious things to the common man, which is why he continues to take chunks of voters away from his opposition.

"He is the master at winning votes from small groups who are passionate about one issue, picking up a couple percent here, a couple there until it’s ‘YMCA!'" he said, quoting the president’s favorite campaign song. 

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Maher provided an example showcasing Trump’s skill. "While Democrats offer up high-minded intangibles like equity and saving the soul of America, Trump says, ‘Hey waitress, how would you like to pay no tax on those tips?’ Remember that? And everybody was like, ‘Why didn’t we think of that?'"

He offered that as a reason Trump won Nevada in 2024 – the first time a GOP candidate has done so in 20 years – because of all the service industry jobs there that run on tips. 

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Maher then listed the other groups Trump was able to snag votes from that led to his victory.

"He did it with the tips. He got the TikTok vote. He got the people for whom toilets are very important vote. He got the ‘enough of taking our shoes off at the airport’ vote, the crypto bro vote, the tech bro vote, the bro bro vote," he said, adding, "He got rappers and kale eaters."

He also mentioned how Trump was able to secure the former independent candidate and current Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s supporters in 2024, saying, "Oh, that’s another – I don’t know – four percent he picked off. And they’re ride or die."

"Trump runs for office like that kid in eighth grade who ran for school president on a pledge of more snow days," Maher joked.

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He continued, saying that "elections are won on the margins, by a coalition of little things that hit people personally. Trump gets this, he feels your pain in the a--. Kamala ran on democracy, which is the most important issue. But without the political skill to sell it, it added up to nothing."

"Meanwhile, Trump was running on, ‘I’ll make the poop go down.’ He never shut up about bad shower pressure, s----- light bulbs, and low-flow toilets. Not exactly ‘ask not what your country can do for you,’ but for some little niche group, it was all that mattered," he said. 

Regarding Trump’s efforts to potentially reclassify marijuana, Maher joked, "Finally, he got around to me." 

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