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But his former National Security Advisor, who worked for Trump from April 2018 until September 2019, said there is no proof to support those claims.
“There is no evidence there is a partisan motive here,“Bolton told Reuters in an interviewWednesday. “I think everybody just ought to calm down, whether you’re pro-Trump or anti-Trump, and let the process work its way through.”
From left: former President Donald Trump and former National Security Advisor John Bolton.Alex Wong/Getty
A judge in a federal court in West Palm Beach, Fla.,indicatedThursday he may be willing to unseal portions of an affidavit used toobtain a search warrant.
Media outlets want the Department of Justice to unseal the additional records associated with the warrant, which was revealed Friday with a property receipt showing what agents removed from the resort.
Bolton said in the interview that he understands and agrees with the DOJ’s concerns.
“Probably it shouldn’t be released and I think DOJ is right. And I think Trump in fact knows they don’t want it released, which is why it’s easy for him to call for it to be released because he knows it’s not going to happen,” Bolton told Reuters.
However, Bolton acknowledged keeping the documents under wraps could prove difficult given the levels of interest andhow fraught the national security investigation of a former president has become.
“Justice is very reluctant to do that for good reasons,” he said, “but I think they have got to be more creative here given the fire storm politically that they face.”
source: people.com
