The search of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton’s home and office is raising questions about whether the White House is flexing its law enforcement muscle to go after a frequent critic.

It also parallels an event that the president and his circle have highly criticized: the search for classified records at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

Bolton has become a fierce critic of President Trump since exiting the White House in September 2019 as national security adviser. He penned a book in 2020, titled “The Room Where It Happened,” that portrayed Trump as an erratic and uninformed leader.

The Trump administration went to court in an effort to block its publication. It also ignited a criminal probe of Bolton. Both the court case and the criminal probe were dropped several months into the Biden administration.

Those dynamics left various figures thinking politics were at play in the administration’s decision to go after Bolton.

“We’re looking at this a little bit skeptically,” Chris Swecker, an agent for 24 years who served as an assistant director of the FBI under George W. Bush, said Friday in comments on Fox News.

Swecker, describing conversations with his colleagues, said he and others were critical of President Biden’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, saying “just because you have the authority and the discretion to do something like this, doesn’t mean you should.”

“We just don’t want to see the FBI weaponized for the other side, if you will, just turning the playbook over,” he added.

To some in Trump’s circle, the motivation is clear.

“That’s why Trump has put in these people at DOJ and FBI because these are all the faithful and........

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