Fox’s Bartiromo: DOJ, FBI, IRS, CIA ‘were all involved in trying to take down Donald Trump’
Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo said Monday that then-President Obama “politicized all of his agencies” in an effort “to take down Donald Trump.”
“President Obama, basically, it appears to me, politicized all of his agencies: the [Department of Justice] DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, the CIA,” Bartiromo said on her Fox Business program, “Mornings with Maria.”
{mosads}”They were all involved in trying to take down Donald Trump,” she added.
She made the comments to Fox senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano, who responded by referring to a tweet sent by former CIA Director John Brennan.
Brennan, now an NBC News and MSNBC contributor, on Sunday responded to an earlier Trump tweet demanding a DOJ investigation into whether or not “the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes.”
I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2018
Brennan warned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that they’ll each “bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy” if they “continue to enable Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions.”
Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions. https://t.co/uAhgL6wfIC
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) May 20, 2018
“One of the reasons, I think, that [former CIA Director] John Brennan’s tweet was so vicious in tone, was because he does not want this behavior exposed,” Napolitano said on Monday. “He probably was behind it — and in fairness to him, it went on long before he got there and will go on long after he is gone.”
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — who has been rumored for months to be on the president’s chopping block — announced not long after Trump’s tweet on Sunday that the Department of Justice Inspector General will launch an investigation into if politics were involved in the FBI investigation of Trump in 2016.
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