Federal Bureau of Investigation agents searched the Maryland home and Washington, D.C., office of former national security adviser John Bolton at about 7 a.m. on 22 Aug., removing boxes of material. The unannounced operation was carried out under a federal search warrant linked to a national-security investigation focused on classified documents, according to people familiar with the matter. Neither the Justice Department nor Bolton’s representatives have commented on what was seized or whether the longtime foreign-policy hawk faces criminal exposure. President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on 25 Aug., said he had not been briefed on the probe and was "purposely" staying out of it. Trump—who called Bolton "a bad guy"—denied any involvement in ordering the search and referred questions about further actions to the Justice Department. Asked if additional raids were forthcoming, he replied, "You’d have to ask DOJ." Trump contrasted the Bolton search with the August 2022 FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort, which retrieved roughly 13,000 government documents. The special-counsel charges stemming from that episode were dropped after Trump won the 2024 election. The Justice Department has not indicated whether the Bolton inquiry is connected to other ongoing reviews of the handling of classified materials.