Fox News’ Andy McCarthy Condemns Trump FBI Raid on John Bolton: ‘Very Sad Development’

Fox News’ Andy McCarthy expressed his disappointment over the FBI’s raid at the home of former Trump adviser and current critic John Bolton on Friday morning, telling anchors Dana Perino and Bill Melugin that it was a “very sad development.”

Agents arrived at Bolton’s home in Bethesda, Maryland, at approximately 7:00 a.m. on Friday to search it as part of what the New York Post called a “national security probe” pertaining to classified documents.

A senior U.S. official told the paper that the probe into Bolton began “years ago,” and claimed that it was shut down “for political reasons.” FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly personally ordered an investigation into Bolton, and tweeted “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission” at 7:03 a.m. on Friday.

McCarthy kicked off his hit after Melugin asked for his “top-line thoughts” on the matter.

“Well, you know, look, this is a very sad development. It’s one we’ve seen again and again, but this is an ancient feud. It’s all, I think, over Bolton’s book. Bolton went on a jihad against Trump after he got fired. There was a major controversy over whether he had included classified information in the book, whether he had mishandled notes that he took at meetings, and stuff that ended up in his memoir, which was very lengthy and had a lot of quotations which must have been difficult to include from memory. So that was kind of what fed into this,” began McCarthy. “But after all of the back and forth, there was civil litigation. There was a judge, Judge Royce Lamberth, who criticized Bolton for being edgy in the book, risking, you know, the possibility of compromising methods and sources of information and opening himself up to civil and criminal litigation. The Biden administration dropped the criminal case and both sides decided to drop the civil litigation, but it’s obviously being revived.”

“So Andy, what are the next steps here? We’re looking at live photographs now, you have the FBI outside of John Bolton’s home that started-, we got the news around 7 a.m.. It seems to be that’s when they went. Those folks there seem to be empty handed as they walk out. This would have had to have been approved by a judge, if we have that correct. And if so, what could be the next steps here? Do you expect that John Bolton might be charged?” followed up Perino.

“I kind of doubt that he’ll be charged, Dana, only because, again, this is ancient history. Now, it’s probably dumb on my part to speculate here because until you see what they’ve actually taken out of his home, and, you know, if they hit a home run and they find something that looks like it’s at least within the ballpark of being classified, then you don’t have a statute of limitations problem, or all the other stuff that you usually have to worry about with, you know ancient history. So we’ll just have to see,” answered McCarthy. “But I must say, I think that we saw with President Trump, I was hoping that his administration wouldn’t practice the things that were practiced on him, but a big part of lawfare is to harass people with investigations. So even if there are never any charges, there’s going to be, there’s already been a search warrant. There’s obviously a criminal investigation that’s underway, there’ll probably be a grand jury component of it. And even if there’s no charges, this will be a very big deal for Bolton personally in the coming months, and maybe even years.”

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