FBI Raid on John Bolton Exposes Deep State Web, Jim Jordan Says

Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is sounding the alarm over what he says is the latest revelation of “deep state” corruption following the FBI’s raid on former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s Maryland home.

Appearing on Fox News Channel’s Hannity, Jordan linked the unprecedented raid to broader accountability measures against figures accused of undermining President Donald Trump’s administration. He also noted lingering national security questions tied to prior claims that Bolton was spotted in Qatar.

Jordan pointed to several high-profile names—former FBI Director James Comey, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA Director John Brennan—saying they remain under scrutiny for actions that sabotaged the Trump presidency.

“I don’t know how this went down today, but you’re right,” Jordan told Hannity. “The press wasn’t there. There wasn’t all this, you know, the big scene that it was three years ago this month when they raided President Trump’s home.”

He then emphasized how recent whistleblower testimony and internal reviews have exposed years of corruption at the highest levels of government.

“I think the big takeaway though is think about what we’ve learned in the last four weeks because of the good work of the attorney general, of Director Patel, of ODNI Director Tulsi Gabbard, think about what we’ve learned,” Jordan said.

“We learned that Jim Comey and his chief of staff were leaking classified information. We learned that a whistleblower has come forward and said Adam Schiff was leaking classified information.”

Jordan continued: “We learned from [DNI] Tulsi Gabbard that there’s another whistleblower who said that they changed the intelligence community assessment. They changed the report to say something different back before President Trump even took office, between Election Day 2016 and Inauguration Day.”

“And now, we learn that and that change, by the way, Charlie was done by Brennan and Clapper,” he added. “At their urging, the report was changed back then. And now we learn today that John Bolton mishandled classified information.”

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Jordan concluded that the scandal is not about isolated misconduct but a coordinated effort to undermine President Trump.

“So, you got Comey, Schiff, Clapper, Brennan, Bolton, all out to undermine the president. That’s the story here. You mentioned the deep state a few minutes ago. That’s the deep state in action trying to sabotage the guy we the people put into the Oval Office,” Jordan said.

“That’s what they tried to do. And now you got good people running these federal agencies who are looking at the facts and just going on the facts and bringing that forward. This is not political retribution. This is accountability.”

“And it’s exactly what the American people voted on when they put President Trump in the White House on November 5,” he added.

The FBI raid itself was foreshadowed by an early morning post from FBI Director Kash Patel, who declared at 7 a.m. on X:

“NO ONE is above the law…@FBI agents on mission.”

The timing, coinciding with the raid on Bolton’s Bethesda residence, left little ambiguity. Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino reinforced the message minutes later, warning: “Public corruption will not be tolerated.”

Bolton, a longtime Washington insider and one of President Trump’s fiercest Republican critics, had already lost both his security clearance and Secret Service protection earlier this year when Trump returned to office.

Notably, Bolton had even teased a presidential run last year. “I would get in to win the nomination, and I would do it primarily on the basis that we need a much stronger foreign policy,” he said at the time.

“I think it’s important that it’s understood not just in Moscow, but it’s understood in places like Beijing, that unprovoked aggression against your neighbors is not something the United States and its allies will tolerate,” he continued.