Vice President JD Vance wasted no time shutting down the corporate media’s attempt to portray the raid on former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s home and office as an act of petty revenge.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the FBI raided Bolton’s Maryland home in an investigation that FBI Director Kash Patel is leading. They also raided his office in DC.
The investigation is reportedly linked to a classified documents probe years ago, but was later shut down under the Biden administration.
As the raid began, FBI Director Kash Patel took to X and wrote, “NO ONE is above the law.”
A short time after the raid, Vance sat down with NBC’s Kristen Welker for a “Meet the Press” interview. The full interview will air on Sunday.
Unsurprisingly, Welker tried to play gotcha by pulling the ‘a lot of people are saying’ trick to make it appear Trump was just trying to get back at Bolton because he hates the president.
But Vance has the perfect answer to shut down her line of garbage. He pointed out that everyone she cited who claimed this was about revenge were the same people who tried to lock up Trump for life on garbage charges.
He went on to say that the move was far from hasty, and people will understand this as the case unfolds.
How embarrassing for Welker.
WATCH:
.@VP: “Who has said it looks a lot like retribution, Kristen? ‘A lot of people’ who tried to throw Donald Trump in prison for completely fake charges that were later thrown out by multiple different courts?” pic.twitter.com/FNKz3rqmee
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 22, 2025
WELKER: You know, a lot of people have already looked at this and said, ‘This looks a lot like retribution. Is this retribution?
VANCE: Who has said it looks a lot like retribution, Kristen? A lot of people who tried to throw Donald Trump in prison for completely fake charges that were later thrown out by multiple different courts?
I suspect that if the media and the American people actually let this case play out, they’re going to find out that what we’re doing has been very deliberate.
