Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino Saturday lambasted ex-CIA Director John Brennan as a "liar" and called the Russia probe a "scam investigation." President Donald Trump early Saturday posted quotes to highlight the interview.
“John Brennan, no single figure in American history has done more to discredit the intelligence community than this liar. Not only is he a liar, he’s a liar about being a liar.” Dan Bongino on @foxandfriends" Trump posted in his first message of the morning.
About an hour later, Trump posted: "..'$17 million spent, it’s a scam Investigation. Americans are being worked. We now know there was Russian collusion, with Russians and the Democrats. The Mueller team is stacked with anti-Trumpers, who actually represented Clinton people (& gave $’s to Crooked H).' Dan Bongino"
Bongino, a radio show host, told Fox and Friends Saturday that "we are getting worked. Worked with a capital W" in regards to the cost of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
"I grew up in New York City in the streets of Queens there," said Bongino. "That was -- you are getting worked. You are getting screwed so badly the American people by this sham investigation. I have never seen anything like it."
The case "was founded on a total sham," he continued.
"We now know that there is Russian collusion with the Clintons and the Democrats, but Bob Mueller's investigating Donald Trump for it, number one," said Bongiono. "Number two, the Mueller probe team is stacked with anti-Trumpers, two of whom are lawyers. This is a fact by the way. I encourage anyone to look this up, who actually represented people before hand in the Clinton sphere. They represented Clintontonians involved in the case. This is a total scam. Everybody is getting worked."
And, he added, taxpayers are footing the bill for the investigation.
"What are we paying for?" he said. "We are paying for a 1001 charge for George Papadopoulos for fibbing to the FBI. This is what we paid $17 million for? Shut the country down almost two years now...this is a serious thing to have the power to take away someone's freedom, and the American taxpayer, me included, is paying for a total sham."
Bongino also lambasted Brennan following the former CIA director's appearance on Friday's "Morning Joe" appearance and for his column in the The Washington Post.
On the MSNBC program Friday, Brennan commented that Trump has "demonstrated a paranoia and insecurity" about the investigation.
"No single figure in American history has done more to discredit the intelligence community than this liar," said Bongino. "Not only is he a liar. He is a liar about being a liar...he has already busted lying. He said he didn't know about the dossier. Yet, he briefed people up on the hill about elements of the dossier that then appeared in a letter to the FBI. He is lying. He is just making this up."
Bongino also pointed out that Brennan is "avoiding the topic" about foreign intelligence and his relationship with them."
"He's the one who met with British intelligence people," he said. "This is open reporting. This is already out there. What they call director level meetings and exchanged information about Trump before this case was even started by the FBI. Hey, John, why don't you tell us about that? He keeps avoiding that topic and switching it to Trump."