Victor Davis Hanson: John Brennan Has Himself to Blame for FBI Investigation

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

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Victor Davis Hanson: John Brennan Has Himself to Blame for FBI Investigation The FBI announced they are launching a criminal investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan for “potential wrongdoing related to the Trump-Russia probe," according to Fox News Digital. John Brennan, one of the main architects behind the 2016 Russian Collusion Hoax, and a contributor to the 2020 Hunter Biden “Laptop From Hell” Cover-up, has a storied history of being at the heart of the most significant scandals in American history of the last 50 years. And now it's rightfully starting to catch up with him, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” 00:00 Introduction: Investigating Comey and Brennan 01:25 John Brennan's Controversial Career 02:46 The Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal 03:40 Trump vs. Biden: The Debate and Aftermath 04:34 Brennan's Accusations Against Trump 05:03 Impact on U.S.-Russia Relations 07:07 Conclusion: Brennan's Legacy and Accountability 07:33 Closing Remarks and Call to Action 👉 This episode is sponsored by Case in Point Podcast. Listen now: https://www.heritage.org/caseinpoint 👉 This episode is sponsored by the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Learn more: https://go.pepperdine.edu/dailysignal 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recently, Pam Bondi and the Trump Department of Justice has said they were running an investigation into James Comey and John Brennan's career as the respective FBI director in the CIA had.
0:12.8	Take John Brennan. Two or three of the most significant scandals of the last 50 years, he was at the center.
0:19.3	You could make the argument that the Russian collusion
0:21.8	hoax almost swung the election to Hillary Clinton. We wouldn't be in this big trouble
0:28.9	about the Ukraine war in Russia, had John Brennan and people like him not floated the spurious
0:35.3	narrative that Donald Trump was working hand in glove with
0:39.2	Vladimir Putin.
0:40.4	Vladimir Putin, Russia, Russia, Russia.
0:52.8	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
0:56.9	Recently, Pam Bondi and the Trump Department of Justice has said they are running an investigation
1:03.2	into James Comey and John Brennan's career as the respective FBI director and the CIA head during the Obama administration
1:14.2	and in the case of Comey, the first year of the Trump administration.
1:20.0	They are very angry about this, but let's just review why there might be some culpability.
1:25.3	Take John Brennan.
1:32.8	He was a big proponent of waterboarding and enhanced interrogation under George W. Bush's administration and the things that went on in Guantanamo.
1:38.6	I'm not going to comment on the right, whether they were right or wrong, but he flipped to condition himself to go into the Obama administration,
1:45.7	and then he attacked the very president that he had served, George Bush. Then he began sounding off
1:51.2	about Islam, religion of peace, jihadism is not a violent act to condition himself further to be
1:57.5	appointed by Obama, which he was, eventually as CIA director. But then he started
2:04.0	lying. I mean, he always probably lied, but I mean, flagrant really so. He said before Congress
2:09.3	and the media, there wasn't one civilian killed by Obama's targeted assassination program
2:15.3	via predators on the Afghan or Pakistan border. Actually, there were 50 or
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