Valuetainment - “Face of The Deep State” - FBI RAIDED John Bolton’s Home This Morning

00:00:00.140 I want to go to the John Bolton story first thing this morning, Rob, if you want to play this clip here.

00:00:04.920 So John Bolton this morning is not at the House, by the way, similar to how President Trump wasn't at the House

00:00:09.580 when they went to Mar-a-Lago and the FBI raided his home.

00:00:13.880 Well, this is what happened to John Bolton, and that's probably exactly what he looked like

00:00:18.840 when he found out that the FBI showed up. Go ahead, Rob.

00:00:22.120 The Fox News alert. We're just learning, learning the FBI agents have raided the Maryland home

00:00:26.780 of former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton. It happened at 7 a.m. this morning.

00:00:32.720 Shortly after the raid began, FBI Director Kash Patel posting on X, quote,

00:00:38.020 no one is above the law. FBI agents on a mission.

00:00:41.580 David Smut joins us now with more on this breaking news. Hey, David.

00:00:45.740 Hey, guys. Not much we can say at this point, but information will continue to develop.

00:00:50.700 As you mentioned, about 7 o'clock this morning, FBI agents raided Ambassador Bolton's home.

00:00:56.240 Notable, we're being told by two government sources that they are looking for classified

00:01:01.920 documents as part of a potential leak investigation. We're told that Ambassador Bolton

00:01:07.440 is not in custody. He's not under arrest. But it is notable they are at his Maryland home right now.

00:01:14.720 We don't know how many agents are there. We're waiting to get a picture of the scene coming in

00:01:20.280 right now. But we're told Ambassador Bolton, who was just on TV on another network a couple days ago

00:01:25.680 talking about the Russia-Putin-Trump summit, is now under FBI investigation.

00:01:31.540 Okay, Tom, thoughts? Well, you know what? Okay, Vinny, thoughts.

00:01:38.420 No, no. Come on, Tom. You're going to say something.

00:01:40.820 I do it. Well, you know what? F-A-F-O. You know, you wrote a memoir. You leaked information. 0.73

00:01:46.280 You were a pain in the neck during the last year of his administration. You got the Biden

00:01:50.260 administration to actually drop the suit that the Trump administration Justice Department

00:01:55.640 brought against you. Biden walks in, Justice Department. John Bolton, any enemy of my enemy

00:02:01.480 is my friend, is what he does. And Biden does it. And so now they're going around. Now,

00:02:06.760 the headlines are going to be, Trump is going after his enemies. Authoritarianism returns to

00:02:11.620 the streets of America. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. This guy was a leaker. This guy was a

00:02:18.480 national security guy. This guy was not good. This guy was like the hidden ghost of soul of

00:02:27.600 the Warhawks trying to get things. That's where I was going to go.

00:02:30.240 Even the Onion made fun of him. The Onion made fun of him once where they had this picture

00:02:35.160 that said, John Bolton stumbles into Capitol claiming Iran shot him and we must retaliate.

00:02:40.120 That's funny.

00:02:40.800 That's what he's saying. I was just shot in the parking lot by Iran. Let's nuke him. 1.00

00:02:44.560 Here's what some people said this morning about it. Kash Patel said, no one is above the law. 0.65

00:02:47.540 FBI agents on mission. Dan Bongino said, public corruption will not be tolerated. Pam

00:02:51.900 Bonnie said, America's safety isn't negotiable. Justice will be pursued always. Megan Hayes

00:02:56.880 from CNN, a Biden advisor, said, seems extremely political, extremely petty, suggested it smacks

00:03:03.100 of pure revenge and represents poor use of FBI resources. Vinny, what do you think?

00:03:08.680 Well, first of all, it drives me nuts that the other side has the freaking gall to even talk 1.00

00:03:13.700 about, oh, they're using the law to come out. No, no, no. That's what Letitia 0.97

00:03:17.240 James. That's what all these people were doing for Trump for years, for years. Now, this

00:03:22.620 was, I was celebrating in my car, Tom, on the way. And by the way, they were looking for

00:03:26.180 documents. They're probably hiding in his mustache. But this guy is the epitome. This

00:03:31.300 is the epitome, Tom. When they, when they talk about the swamp.

00:03:33.940 I'm with you. Preach.

00:03:34.940 Yeah. When they talk about the deep state, when they talk about the swamp, that's the

00:03:38.300 guy. That is the face of the deep state. Okay. He wanted war with everybody. War with Iran.

00:03:43.580 War with North Korea. War with Venezuela. Doesn't matter. He's, he's.

00:03:47.240 That guy. He wanted the war. Then he blew up Trump's North Korea talks by running his

00:03:52.260 mouth. He said, he called it the Libya model, Tom, where he said.

00:03:55.300 Intentionally. He did it.

00:03:56.440 Yeah. He said, he basically telling Kim Jong-un, you're next. Right?

00:03:59.940 Yeah. Well, Trump's heading over there.

00:04:01.500 Yeah, exactly. And then he fought Trump on Afghanistan. He blocked the peace deals.

00:04:05.580 And then you write a book talking crap about Trump and going after him. And it's like, 0.90

00:04:10.280 this is the problem. I just hope.

00:04:12.180 And leaking facts in the book that got him sued by Trump's justice department and good

00:04:16.260 for him. I just hope. And mind you again, guys, this is, we're less than one year in

00:04:21.000 they're making all these promises. Let's put the Epstein and all that stuff aside. I hope

00:04:25.280 this is the beginning of, of the, of everything else coming after it. The Hillary, the bill,

00:04:31.520 everybody that did something illegal. We want accountability. I'm happy. It's starting with

00:04:35.620 this guy, but I hope it doesn't finish. I hope it keeps going.

00:04:38.540 Well, John Bolton is known for war first, ask questions later. Uh, Trump is all about

00:04:44.460 Bob Barker. Let's make a deal. So these guys have clashed since day one. The craziest thing

00:04:49.300 is Trump hired him as his national security advisor. Like if there's any difference between

00:04:54.980 the first term with Trump and second term with Trump, Trump's bench that he was dealing

00:04:59.780 with back then was so limited and so just not with talent and people that were on his

00:05:07.820 side, you would hire a vocal critic of Trump. Now Trump is like, who the hell are you? Why 0.56

00:05:14.120 the hell are you here? Here's a guy who's made a career of bashing Trump in the last decade. 0.95

00:05:19.760 And now, I don't know, some are calling it retribution. We'll see what happens here, but

00:05:23.040 no man is above the law.

00:05:24.560 And you said this before, and I've heard other people argue the fact where they're like, well,

00:05:28.520 he assigned him just like Christopher Ray. They're like, well, if he's such a corrupt

00:05:32.500 guy and it's like, well, Trump, when he first won, he didn't. Trump had no idea.

00:05:36.940 Tom, Adam, you feel me? You just show up and you're like, okay. And you know what they

00:05:40.260 say? The people in Washington go, hey, that's a great guy. Christopher Ray, hire them. But

00:05:44.460 you made it. That's a great point.

00:05:46.020 Eric Trump was on this podcast and said what happened the first time versus the second time

00:05:50.540 with the people we put in to vet our selection is night and day. I believe that was a quote.

00:05:55.480 It was night and day. And for people in the Dems to get up and say, oh,

00:05:58.520 this is a terrible use of FBI resources. Remember who were the buffoons that sent those same 1.00

00:06:04.420 FBI resources to Mar-a-Lago to find nothing and raid Roger Stolt's house at six o'clock

00:06:11.660 in the morning. Watch out there. Oh my God. He saved his life. I don't think anyone shocked

00:06:18.800 by this. It's like, what? John Bolton. Why do you think this happened today? Yeah, I don't

00:06:24.140 know. I don't know if this guy's in my top 50 list of people to go after. I don't know.

00:06:30.120 When your guy sends me a message this morning on Manect, he got into trouble. He hasn't drank

00:06:36.440 for three years. He is at an airport. He drinks. It's public. Video goes viral. He's asking me,

00:06:45.440 how do I handle this? We're having a conversation together, one of our clients. And he screwed

00:06:50.000 up, right? And as we all do, okay? But this is a big screw up. He hasn't drank for three

00:06:54.020 years. And somebody who has drinking issues or you've tried to get off alcohol, you know

00:06:58.340 how tough it is. You say, I can get away with just one glass of wine or whatever. And the

00:07:02.060 next thing you know, you're on stage, you know, dancing around the pole and people are saying,

00:07:07.020 wait a minute, that's my accountant. And, you know, so now.

00:07:11.600 I mean, he's like, save that money. This is the most entertaining accountant I've ever

00:07:19.240 had. I'm always audited, but damn, this guy's fun to be around. 0.97

00:07:23.400 But let me tell you, so let me tell you how this thing works. So the whole point is, sometimes 0.91

00:07:30.500 it's redirect. Sometimes it's, you know, look over there. Holy shit, guys, what are we doing

00:07:37.440 here? And sometimes it's look over there and really look over there because something's 0.99

00:07:42.400 there. So if they go after this guy and they find something and he has some stuff, guess

00:07:46.600 what? They're going to look good. But if they go raid his house and they find nothing, they're

00:07:50.340 going to look just like, you know, what was the guy that did it here? The judge that went

00:07:54.260 after Mar-a-Lago and says, yeah, this wasn't Biden. This was my choice. I made the decision

00:07:59.080 to go after a president because we had to find out what was going to happen. And they did

00:08:02.920 that to a president. So people on the left, that's like, I can't believe he's going

00:08:05.920 after John Bolton. If Trump did this at Biden's house and he went to Biden's house, okay, now

00:08:13.300 that's retribution, you know. But if you notice, Trump's been fairly nice to Biden, okay? He's

00:08:21.000 not necessarily been like Obama every time Obama was like what? Well, it's what I inherited.

00:08:26.460 It's administration I inherited. It's administration I inherited. And all these liberals get up and

00:08:31.400 they say, well, you know, you don't ever blame the previous one. It's all Obama did for

00:08:34.740 the first four years. It's all, go back and play the tapes. It's out there. Everything

00:08:39.200 was about Bush's fault. Bush's fault. Bush's fault. Bush's fault. Bush's fault. It's like,

00:08:42.480 dude, kudos to Bush. Love him or hate him. When he became president and he got out, never

00:08:46.560 said anything. He said nothing from that day till today. Yes, 9-11. Yes, all this other

00:08:50.880 stuff. The guy for the most part has been a fairly, a non, what's the word? Non-influential

00:08:59.160 player in the last, what is the MPC? Non, uh, he's not been somebody that's, uh, been

00:09:04.820 that influential. So I don't know what they're doing here. Maybe there is something there.

00:09:07.920 Maybe it's redirecting. Maybe it's misdirection. Whatever it is, time will tell. And we'll know

00:09:12.000 within a month or two or three months that something was there or not.

00:09:13.980 Because you want to show you it's a risk.

00:09:15.800 You could be, you know, you, you come unglued with, uh, Letitia James. You don't want to be

00:09:21.260 Letitia James by mistake. 1.00

00:09:22.600 Yeah. You don't want to do that. I agree. You don't want to do that.

00:09:24.440 Out of, okay. So out of the list, him being on a one of them, him down there, him downstairs,

00:09:30.120 him, John Bolton, John Bolton, John Brennan, um, Hillary Clinton, all, all of the cases that

00:09:37.260 they're going to talk about, the indictments are coming. They're going to be talking to

00:09:40.180 everybody. They're going to have everybody, um, what's it when in court, the deposition

00:09:43.700 that they have to do out of what percentage you give one person going to jail one getting

00:09:50.240 indicted and actually seeing prison. I actually think there's a 25% chance someone's going

00:09:56.780 to jail. That's pretty high. I think there's a 25% chance someone, I don't know who, but

00:10:02.360 I think someone, we deserve there will be a fall guy. I think there's going to be someone

00:10:06.720 that goes who I don't know. Let me tell you what's the weirdest thing. Um, you know, I

00:10:15.360 had Michael Wolf on the other day. We had him for an hour. We had a, you know, podcast

00:10:19.200 and we've been speaking a lot lately because the interest in this topic last night, I'm

00:10:24.060 watching the, you know, Jelaine Maxwell documentary. Have you watched it? Tom, have you watched it

00:10:29.100 on Netflix? No, I've not. Maxwell on Netflix. Highly recommend you go watch it. Highly recommend

00:10:35.160 you go watch it. Let me say it again. Highly recommend you go watch it. We were glued to

00:10:40.240 the screen, me, my dad and my son. Okay. Just watching, you know, how Epstein was the replacement

00:10:47.420 of her father the day her father died, how close her and her father were. And some of

00:10:52.160 the things that he taught her, some things that I never knew about her, their methods,

00:10:56.660 some of the clients that were talking when they were taking them upstairs and literally

00:11:00.260 they would bring 16 year old girls upstairs to their penthouse. Hey, can you bring the clothes 0.99

00:11:04.580 upstairs? And they would bring them upstairs and they would go in the room, changing the

00:11:08.840 rope, come out. So imagine the 16 year old girl is sitting right there. They right in 1.00

00:11:12.940 front of her start kissing each other and they start fooling around. And then they would 0.99

00:11:17.280 look at her and invite her. Come join us. Like that was their method of doing it. Right.

00:11:21.440 Very interesting when you see that. So for me, I talked to Michael Cohen a couple of days

00:11:26.280 ago. We're having a conversation together about, you know, what's really going on, what's

00:11:29.340 and his position has changed. All of a sudden now he's complimentary. You know, all of a sudden

00:11:34.540 now he's, you know, a little bit more complimentary to the president. All of a sudden Hillary's

00:11:39.020 complimentary to the president. All of a sudden, you know, Joe Scarborough's complimentary

00:11:43.240 when I say Newsom's trying to be like Trump. All of a sudden, a lot of people are complimentary.

00:11:48.200 So the moment people dramatically switch that aggressively, it's one of two things. There

00:11:54.980 used to be a song, you know, the head, you know, player in charge, you can replace the

00:12:01.140 player with another word. And, you know, that's the guy today. They either fear him and he has

00:12:09.700 the personality of saying, do something, I will destroy you. Play along, we'll be friends.

00:12:17.700 But I swear to God, if you do something, I will destroy you. And they believe him. There's 0.91

00:12:23.500 a big difference when you build a reputation like that. To be who he is today took 40 years

00:12:29.240 of building that reputation in the marketplace. You're feared, you're hated, you're an asshole, 1.00

00:12:35.120 and you're comfortable being that person. So you create friends and allies, and some that 1.00

00:12:40.840 always know behind closed doors, holy shit, this guy can destroy me if we really wanted to. 0.98

00:12:45.220 And so that's his rap. And people are kind of starting to realize, maybe this is somebody 0.99

00:12:49.100 not to mess with. First thing Tom said is what? You know, FAFO. F-A-F-O, right? F-A-F-O.

00:12:54.080 F-Round and find out. That's exactly what's going on right now. But I will tell you, it's

00:12:58.540 slippery slope if there's nothing there. You better find something. If you do this and you

00:13:04.500 don't find something, they're going to say you're just like the previous administration,

00:13:08.260 you're using the DOJ. Trust me. All day today, this happened what time? 7 a.m. It happened

00:13:14.220 two hours and 20 minutes ago. Watch how all day today, this is the easiest content for Newsom,

00:13:21.080 Warren, AOC, Mamdani, everybody on the left is going to say they're using the justice system

00:13:29.780 to go after their opponents. They're using the justice, and this is such an easy layup

00:13:34.320 for the left to run with, and they're going to be doing that. But if they do this, and

00:13:39.320 in the next week, two weeks, four weeks, six weeks, they show something, holy shit. 0.99

00:13:42.820 But that's such hypocrisy, which I think is the point that you're making here, is that 0.99

00:13:46.720 all they did was weaponize the justice system. All they did was do that, and then to do

00:13:51.120 this. Speaking of hypocrisy, one thing I just want to speckle with Bolton, you know,

00:13:55.100 this guy is known as the biggest warmonger around, but he never served in the military 0.71

00:13:59.380 whatsoever. I think a lot of people are frustrated by people who have never served or are not

00:14:03.180 actual tough guys, have actually never served their country in that capacity, who are calling

00:14:07.420 for war. Trump never served in the military, but he's not a warmonger. If anything, he's a deal

00:14:12.460 maker trying to make peace. So I feel like people are a little disgusted by the hypocrisy 0.77

00:14:16.660 for someone like this. And the mustache. 0.88

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Valuetainment - August 22, 2025

“Face of The Deep State” - FBI RAIDED John Bolton’s Home This Morning

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