‘It Can Turn Your Life Upside Down’: Scott Jennings Says Trump Probe Will Cost John Bolton ‘A Lot’
CNN’s Scott Jennings said that the FBI probe into John Bolton, the former adviser and current critic of President Donald Trump, could turn Bolton’s “life upside down” on Friday.
Agents arrived at Bolton’s home in Bethesda, Maryland, at approximately 7:00 a.m. on Friday to search it as part of what the New York Post called a “national security probe” pertaining to classified documents.
A couple of hours later, CNN’s John Berman asked Jennings to use his own experience to describe the costs that the investigation might impose on Bolton:
BERMAN: Scott, one little kind of a question off to the side here. You served in the George W. Bush administration. There are investigations that often surround administrations in different ways, and you had to to testify, and were deposed as part of that. This is-, that’s far different than what’s going on here. I mean, Bolton himself is being investigated specifically. But what does it do to your life in terms of upheaval when you’re connected to an investigation? How much does it cost in terms of money, resources, and just emotional impact?
JENNINGS: Oh, it can cost quite a lot. I mean, to get attorneys and to sit through the process of preparing, and going through all your records, and answering their questions, and then practicing, and then going in and doing it. I mean you rack up hours ,and Washington, D.C. attorneys ain’t cheap, you know, as they say. So from that perspective, it is, it can be very taxing.
It’s mentally taxing, there’s a lot of anxiety that goes along with it. In my case, I wasn’t being investigated for anything criminal and wasn’t the target of any criminal investigation. I was merely talking to congressional committees. But it’s still an emotionally taxing situation, particularly when you know, as I knew in my case, I had done nothing wrong, but I was certainly being dragged in as part of a political investigation. They hated my boss, Karl Rove, and they wanted to get to anybody who was connected to Karl Rove. And so that’s what happened in that case. I emerged on the other side of it perfectly fine, but it can turn your life upside down to some degree. Now, what Bolton is dealing with here is different. This is FBI coming into your house, grand juries, possible criminal charge. That’s what the invest-, so that’s a whole ‘nother level of anxiety that that I did not have to deal with.
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