FBI agents leave the office of John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Trump, with several boxes and other materials on August 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Leyden/Getty Images
Federal investigators seized multiple documents labeled “secret,” “confidential,” and “classified,” including some about weapons of mass destruction, during the late August search of the office of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, according to newly released court records that are part of an investigation into whether Bolton mishandled defense records.
The new details provide additional insight into what evidence federal investigators have collected as they look at possible criminal charges for Bolton, who became a political antagonist of Trump’s aft