Trump is wrong about everything
He’s the Commander in Chief of the military but no one has ever called the president the top law enforcement officer. It’s not true. In fact, for the last 50 years the country removed the president from any direct association with Justice Department matters except for his ultimate power to nominate or fire the top political appointees.
He said that he didn’t know about the Bolton raid and that’s simply not believable. Of course he did. Bondi and Patel are so far up his keister that they can’t eat lunch without informing Trump of what’s in their sandwich. He gave the order the minute he said “I am your retribution.”
And Patel has his own ax to grind:
Bolton made several appearances in Patel’s 2024 book The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy, including in an infamous appendix listing “Members of the Executive Branch Deep State.” In the book, Patel also blasted Bolton as an “arrogant control freak” and personally blamed Bolton for delaying Patel’s hiring in the first Trump administration.
The fact that they are apparently trying to get him for taking “classified documents” is just rich. Trump will no doubt rant about how terrible it is to do such a thing but everyone should laugh in his face when he does it. We’ve all seen the pictures of the boxes of top secret documents in the toilet at Mar-a-lago:
I do think there is a method to the madness here, though. This is a message to the Trump apostates and (rare) GOP opponents. The Bolton, Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs investigations are a shot across the bow at anyone who once worked for Trump and have spoken out against him. Republican officials are all on notice.