Another in an ongoing series:
Dear Senator McCormick;
I'd like to ask you about some recent events.
The home of former National Security Advisor John Bolton was raided by the FBI this weekend. The New York Post reported that:
FBI agents raided the Maryland home and Washington, DC office of President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton Friday morning in a high-profile probe of allegations that he sent “highly sensitive” classified documents to his family from a private email server while working in the White House. Federal investigators went to Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post. Agents later went to Bolton’s office in downtown DC, but did not enter until a judge signed a warrant for that location late Friday morning.
Axios reported:
Prior to being confirmed as FBI director, Patel wrote a book in 2023 that included a "not exhaustive" list of "deep state" officials in the executive branch.
- Trump endorsed the book, saying that he will "use this blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of Government!"
CNN reported:
Over and over again, the administration has not just probed Trump critics, but it’s made a show of it – often in ways that run afoul of legal ethics.
Those ethics rules hold that prosecutors and investigators should not seed unwarranted suspicion of people. They should instead speak through legal filings and keep their public comments to a minimum.
The idea is that the legal process is not used to impugn people whom the government doesn’t have the goods on.
But the Trump administration has obliterated that norm. That raises the prospect that these people are not necessarily being targeted for prosecution, but for a public shaming and to send a message to others. And a top DOJ official has even acknowledged publicly that could be the goal. [Italics in original.]
It should also be noted that Bolton endorsed you in April of 2024:
Former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, Ambassador John R. Bolton, announced the John Bolton PAC’s endorsement of Dave McCormick for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania. Additionally, the John Bolton PAC will make a contribution of $10,000 to his election campaign.So here's my question. Regardless of the reasons for it, wasn't the raid on Bolton's home and office solid evidence that the Trump Administration has, despite to it's own denials to the contrary, in fact politicized the DOJ?
Before we get into a discussion about how "no one is above the law" and how Bolton is accused of mishandling classified documents, we should go over how many boxes of classified documents were found at Mar-a-Lago and the outcome of that case.
I could send you pictures of the boxes in Trump's bathroom, if you'd like.
In any event, any comments on Trump's politicization of the DOJ? It's a rather serious threat to our Constitutional democracy, isn't it? You took an oath to support and defend the Constitution, didn't you?
I'll await your answer, Senator.
As always, whatever answer I get, I'll post it here.
