Scared to Death – Scarborough blasts Bondi’s shocking probe into the Obama administration: “Extraordinarily stupid,” he claims – but what triggered this investigation? Political theater or buried scandal? What are they hiding? You won’t believe what happened next.
Scared to Death – Scarborough blasts Bondi’s shocking probe into the Obama administration: “Extraordinarily stupid,” he claims – but what triggered this investigation? Political theater or buried scandal? What are they hiding? You won’t believe what happened next.
“The Probe That Never Was: Scarborough Slams ‘Extraordinarily Stupid’ Investigation into Obama-Era Intel”
It started with a headline.
A headline that, in any other democratic country, might have sounded like satire:
“Pam Bondi Orders Grand Jury Investigation Into Obama-Era Intel Officials.”
But in America, 2025, satire and reality have long since blurred.
This week, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough — once a Republican congressman, now a trenchant critic of former President Trump — took a flamethrower to the latest political stunt orchestrated by the ex-president and his ever-loyal Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“It’s extraordinarily stupid on so many counts,” Scarborough thundered on-air. “The timeline doesn’t even add up.”
His voice didn’t tremble. It cracked with frustration. This wasn’t just about partisanship. It was about the dismantling of logic in American politics, one press release at a time.
A Probe Built on Vapor
At the center of the controversy lies Bondi’s move to convene a grand jury to investigate intelligence officials from the Obama administration, accusing them of weaponizing federal intelligence in favor of Democrats prior to the 2016 election.
The problem? It never happened.
At least, not according to the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired at the time by Marco Rubio — now, ironically, Trump’s Secretary of State. After a years-long review of classified material and witness testimony, the Committee concluded in 2020 that it was Trump’s own 2016 campaign, not Obama’s administration, that posed the “grave counterintelligence threat.”
Scarborough reminded viewers of that very fact:
“That was Marco Rubio. That was every Republican on that committee. That’s what they found — not some deep state conspiracy dreamed up at Mar-a-Lago.”
A Familiar Pattern
The story feels ripped from a script we’ve seen before: accuse the previous administration, sow public confusion, dominate headlines, distract from ongoing investigations or political embarrassments.
Bondi, following the pattern, went further Monday by invoking Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, claiming she had uncovered “clear and blatant weaponization by corrupt intelligence officials acting at the behest of the Democrat Party and likely former President Obama.”
No evidence was provided. No dates cited. No specific officials named.
Scarborough, clearly fed up with the déjà vu, tied the dots back to Trump’s familiar playbook:
“It’s like when Donald Trump is saying that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton created the Epstein files. No, no, no. That all happened during Donald Trump’s first term.”
Obama Responds — Rarely
The move was so brazen that former President Obama, usually reticent to step into the chaos, issued a rare public statement, calling the accusations a “distraction.”
In today’s America, even that measured response was headline-making. It suggested that the stakes were once again climbing. Fast.
The Mar-a-Lago Mediation That Wasn’t
Ironically, Scarborough himself was once criticized by progressives for traveling to Mar-a-Lago after the 2024 election, in what he framed as an effort to “restart communications” with the Trump administration.
That attempt now looks almost quaint — a journalist trying to act as a bridge in a country addicted to division.
But after this week’s political maneuver, that bridge has likely been reduced to ash.
What’s Really at Stake
This isn’t just a sideshow. Scarborough’s warning points to something deeper and darker: the use of federal power to rewrite history, to chase political enemies, to turn facts into fog and truth into suspicion.
And perhaps most dangerously: to condition the public to accept this as normal.
Because the next time it won’t just be a press release. It’ll be an arrest. A trial. A law. A precedent.
And long after the shouting fades, that precedent will remain.
