Trump, during that first term, was churning through national security advisers with regularity, and Bolton jumped from his role as a Fox News analyst to the White House in March of 2018 after promising Trump “he wouldn’t start any wars” if he was selected, CNN reported at the time.

The former Trump national security adviser whose home and office are being searched by federal agents has been a vocal critic of the Republican president

Vice President JD Vance is defending the federal government’s investigation into former national security adviser John Bolton, as Democrats slam the FBI’s search of his home last Friday as a politically targeted attack. But Vance also made it clear he couldn’t say what Bolton might have done.