During a recent appearance on the Jesse Watters show, journalist Michael Shellenberger commented on the recent FBI raid of John Bolton’s home. Shellenberger was asked whether this action might signal further investigations into individuals connected to the origins of the Russia investigation.
Shellenberger said he believes that federal authorities are taking further steps. “I mean, look, I’ve been told, and I’m sure you’ve heard this too, is that the Trump administration is serious. The Department of Justice is serious. The FBI is serious about prosecuting the Russia collusion hoax. That is what it looks like,” Shellenberger said.
He also described the process as somewhat improvised: “And when you kind of look at the whole thing, I mean, to some extent, they’re making it up as they go along. But I mean, we had e-mails, we had Intelligence released a couple of weeks ago that suggested that Adam Schiff, that a conversation with Adam Schiff where he said that they were looking for, you know, maybe not criminal prosecution, but possibly impeachment. That was way back in 2017, in to 2019 they get that first impeachment and you see Bolton again saying — he is being very creative in his book, describing all the ways in which he thought that Trump should have been charged with impeachment, or the impeachment process should have gone and criticizing the Democrats for making their scope too narrow.”
“He wanted it to just be around a whole set of decisions that John Bolton happened to disagree with and make that the basis of impeaching the President,” Shellenberger added.
A video clip from Jesse Watters’ show featuring Shellenberger’s comments has circulated online.
The FBI’s actions follow previous debates over how officials handled intelligence regarding Russian interference and related matters during Donald Trump’s presidency.
