John Brennan Weaponized Intel Against Trump. Now He’s Mad The Worm Has Turned.

Former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan is accusing President Donald Trump and his administration of “weaponizing” the intelligence community in their efforts to investigate his actions in 2016 — which, according to a recently published CIA review, amounted to him weaponizing the intelligence community against Trump.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred both Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey to the FBI for investigation and potential prosecution pursuant to their actions during the Trump-Russia investigation — and Brennan specifically was cited in the review as showing “a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness.”

The review also indicated that Brennan accepted evidence that backed his predetermined conclusions — such as the widely discredited Steele Dossier — even when others in the intelligence community warned against it, and was “more swayed by the Dossier’s general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns.”

But now that Brennan is in the hot seat, he’s arguing that investigating the “multiple procedural anomalies” — over which he presided, alongside Comey — is what actually amounts to the weaponization of intelligence.

Brennan, speaking to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, claimed that he was a victim of “the authoritarian playbook” and that the Trump administration was taking actions that were reflective of the early days of Nazi Germany.

WATCH:

🚨John Brennan says the investigation into him and James Comey for their role in the Russian Collusion Hoax is “the authoritarian playbook.”

He compares it to Nazi Germany.

“If a president of the United States is willing to weaponize intelligence and justice…we really are in… pic.twitter.com/cl1sekq79x

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“If a President of the United States is willing to weaponize intelligence and justice and, you know, law enforcement investigators, and the people who head up these departments and agencies are willing to bow to it, we really are in deep, deep trouble,” he claimed.

Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume weighed in on the investigation as well, saying first that it was worth looking into and then reminding audiences that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had financed the Steele Dossier upon which Brennan and Comey had built their case.

🚨 WATCH: Fox’s @brithume on the investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey: “It’s worthy of investigation.”

“It all comes down once again after all these years to the Steele Dossier which was a dogs breakfast of scurrilous… pic.twitter.com/p1KSiUsxIZ

— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) July 9, 2025