I have no idea if the FBI raid on former Trump national security advisor John Bolton owes to upholding the law or exacting revenge.

I do know, as part of a broader vendetta campaign against Donald Trump, that Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon, and Allen Weisselberg, three Trump associates, went to prison; prosecutors flipped attorneys associated with Trump, to include Michael Cohen, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis; state boards disbarred Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman; and various local, state, and federal prosecutors threatened Trump with 717.5 years in prison.

One cheering on the transformation of the American judiciary into something out of the Woody Allen movie Bananas, as Bolton arguably did, does so at great risk. Power, whether in the United States or San Marcos, eventually changes hands. Behaving by the book acts as an insurance policy indemnifying one against that eventuality.

Did Bolton behave as a boy scout? If he did not, the people he once derided on MSNBC will surely attempt to slap a felony on his record.

Bolton and other boosters of the corruption of the judiciary imagined Trump as forever on the outs. One imagines his epiphany came with a loud, early-morning knock.