Dan Abrams Torches Bolton Raid and Drops Receipts on Why ‘Politicization’ Claims Against Biden Admin Don’t Hold Up
Dan Abrams slammed the FBI raid on John Bolton as an act of a weaponized Justice Department — and dismantled the claim that the Biden DOJ was politicized, which some on the right are arguing in order to justify the Bolton raid.
In a blistering opening monologue for his show on SiriusXM’s POTUS channel Monday, Abrams — the founder of Mediaite — called the weaponization of the Trump DOJ “disgusting” and argued that the evidence the FBI had against Bolton to justify a raid almost certainly “pale[s] in comparison” to the evidence against President Donald Trump ahead of the August 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago.
“At this point, if anyone had lingering questions about the disgusting weaponization of this DOJ and intel leadership, they have been answered with the raid on John Bolton’s home,” Abrams said. “You had intelligence and DOJ working together to make some case against Bolton — likely based on a book he wrote in 2020 which was very critical of Trump. Maybe it’s based on something else. And heck, they got two judges to sign off on search warrants so there may be some violation. But I am confident that whatever they may have will pale in comparison to the documents case against Trump himself — where he and his team lied about having over 100 classified documents.”
Abrams then listed off a host of examples in support of his claim that the Trump DOJ is weaponized — from the firing of dozens of federal prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases, to the investigations launched against those Trump feels have wronged him, such as former cybersecurity head Chris Krebs, who publicly stated that the 2020 election was fair.
“And yet when confronted about how absurdly political this all is,” Abrams said, “the response is the same. The Biden and Obama DOJ’s are the ones that started the politicization.”
And that claim — according to Abrams — is “BS.” The Mediate founder pointed out that one of the most compelling arguments knocking down the premise that the Biden DOJ was weaponized actually came from former FBI Director Chris Wray — who, like all of his predecessors in the job, was a Republican when he was appointed.
“At a senate hearing in 202, Wray pointed out that as a ‘lifelong republican,’ the idea that he was leading a politicized FBI made no sense,” Abrams said. “And in another hearing in 2022, he responded to one of the talking points that the FBI had been supposedly targeting pro-life protestors pointing out that more of their investigations were actually on the other side.
“In fact, as I have chronicled before, there were more investigations and prosecutions of high-profile Democrats than Republicans by the Biden DOJ. How many high-profile republicans do you see this DOJ targeting?”
Abrams made clear to note that be believes the county-level cases against President Trump — such as the Stormy Daniels hush money payout case in Manhattan, and the election interference case in Fulton County, GA — were politicized prosecutions. Conversely, Abrams believes that conservative attorneys general such as Ken Paxton in Texas have operated in a politicized manner on Trump’s behalf.
But that has all happened on the state and local level. The difference, Abrams says, is that the Trump DOJ is carrying out a weaponization of justice on the federal level. And he believes it’s a “scary abuse of power.”
“The evidence that this DOJ is beyond weaponized is as clear as day,” Abrams said. “They almost aren’t denying it, and that is a scary abuse of power. So yes, let’s wait to make final judgment on the Bolton case until we have all the evidence but regardless of what they have or don’t have. One thing is clear: This is an administration using the enormous power of the federal government to go after Trump’s enemies in a way the Biden administration never did.”
Watch above, via Dan Abrams on YouTube.
