FBI agents searched former Trump adviser John Bolton's Maryland home on Friday morning as part of a national security probe, a source briefed on the matter said.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents began searching his house in Maryland at 7 a.m. as part of a probe ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, according to the New York Post.
Representatives for the FBI and the White House could not be immediately reached for comment on the report. A Bolton representative also could not be immediately reached.
"NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission," Patel wrote, without mentioning Bolton, in an X post shortly after 7 a.m. that was reposted by a White House spokesman.
Trump says he had no idea of the raid on 'lowlife' Bolton's house
Trump said that he had limited knowledge of the FBI searching the home of his former aide John Bolton, but called him a "lowlife."
"I'm not a fan of John Bolton," Trump told reporters. "He's a real, sort of a lowlife," Trump said the Department of Justice would probably brief him on Friday about the search.
Bolton served as the US ambassador to the United Nations and as the White House national security adviser during President Donald Trump's first term in office. However, since then he has become a critic of the Republican president, calling him unfit to serve.
The president previously stripped Bolton of protective Secret Service detail that had been assigned after the US Justice Department said Iran had threatened his life.