Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, recently discussed the FBI raid on former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
During an interview on News Channelâs âHannity,â Jordan said the raid was part of broader accountability measures targeting figures accused of undermining President Donald Trumpâs administration. They also discussed prior claims that Bolton was spotted in Qatar, raising national security questions.
He cited former FBI Director James Comey, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA Director John Brennan among those under scrutiny.
âI donât know how this went down today, but youâre right,â Jordan told Hannity. âThe press wasnât there. There wasnât all this, you know, the big scene that it was three years ago this month when they raided President Trumpâs home.â
âI think the big takeaway though is think about what weâve learned in the last four weeks because of the good work of the attorney general, of Director Patel, of ODNI Director Tulsi Gabbard, think about what weâve learned,â he continued.
âWe learned that Jim Comey and his chief of staff were leaking classified information. We learned that a whistleblower has come forward and said Adam Schiff was leaking classified information.â
âWe learned from [DNI] Tulsi Gabbard that thereâs another whistleblower who said that they changed the intelligence community assessment. They changed the report to say something different back before President Trump even took office, between Election Day 2016 and Inauguration Day.â
âAnd now, we learn that and that change, by the way, Charlie was done by Brennan and Clapper,â Jordan said. âAt their urging, the report was changed back then. And now we learn today that John Bolton mishandled classified information.â
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âSo, you got Comey, Schiff, Clapper, Brennan, Bolton, all out to undermine the president. Thatâs the story here. You mentioned the deep state a few minutes ago. Thatâs the deep state in action trying to sabotage the guy we the people put into the Oval Office.â
âThatâs what they tried to do. And now you got good people running these federal agencies who are looking at the facts and just going on the facts and bringing that forward. This is not political retribution. This is accountability.â
âAnd itâs exactly what the American people voted on when they put President Trump in the White House on November 5,â Jordan concluded.
FBI Director Kash Patel set Washington abuzz Friday morning with a cryptic message on X, posted just as federal agents swarmed the Bethesda, Md., home of Trumpâs former national security adviser John Bolton.
âNO ONE is above the lawâŚ@FBI agents on mission,â Patel declared at 7 a.m., without naming names. The timing left little doubt about whatâor whoâhe was referring to, though he couldâve also been referring to others.
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino piled on minutes later, posting: âPublic corruption will not be tolerated.â He underscored this message in a Fox News appearance.
Bolton, a longtime Washington operative and one of Trumpâs fiercest Republican critics, had his security clearance yanked and Secret Service detail removed earlier this year after Trump returned to office.
Funny enough, Bolton teased last year that he would run for president.
âI would get in to win the nomination, and I would do it primarily on the basis that we need a much stronger foreign policy,â he told the morning show.
âI think itâs important that itâs understood not just in Moscow, but itâs understood in places like Beijing, that unprovoked aggression against your neighbors is not something the United States and its allies will tolerate,â he continued.
