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On The View on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, far-left strategist Symone D. Sanders said to former CIA director John Brennan: “Iran, they are an authoritarian regime who’s known to lie.” Brennan responded: “Well, I tend to believe Iran more than I do Donald Trump, because he could not acknowledge the truth even when it—he’s slapped in the face with it repeatedly.” In tacitly endorsing Iran’s bloodthirsty Islamic regime, Brennan thus reveals the truly sinister depth of his hatred for Trump, and not just of Trump, but of America itself.
Brennan was making no earth-shattering revelation. His true allegiances have been known since 2016, when he revealed that as a young man, he had voted for Communist Party presidential candidate Gus Hall. “This was back in 1980,” Brennan explained, “and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate.”
Later, when he entered the CIA, Brennan was afraid his Communist vote might be an obstacle to his advancement within the agency. “I said I was neither Democratic or Republican, but it was my way, as I was going to college, of signaling my unhappiness with the system, and the need for change. I said I’m not a member of the Communist Party.” Lots of young people registered their unhappiness with the system without voting for a Communist, but that explanation was good enough for the CIA.
Like so many other people on the far left these days, Brennan loves Islam. In a 2010 speech, he spoke so fulsomely about “the goodness and beauty of Islam” that rumors circulated that he had converted to Islam, which his office denied. Former FBI agent John Guandolo, however, maintains that Brennan actually converted to Islam, saying: “The facts (are)…confirmed by U.S. government officials who were also in Saudi Arabia at the time that John Brennan was serving …they were direct witnesses to his growing relationships with individuals who work with the Saudi government and they witnessed his conversion to Islam.”
If Brennan really is a Muslim, it would explain why he is more ready to take the word of the mullahs of the Islamic Republic over that of Donald Trump, but this may simply be a reflection of his incandescent hatred for the occupant of the Oval Office. Brennan was one of the chief exponents of the Russia Hoax, the large-scale Democrat attempt to frame Trump as a tool of Vladimir Putin, and thereby destroy his presidency.
Back in July 2025, one of Brennan’s former employees at the CIA, Bryan Dean Wright, wrote in Fox News on Thursday that Brennan “lied about his use of the discredited Steele dossier.” While telling the media that he didn’t think much of the dossier, which claimed that Putin had evidence of compromising behavior Trump supposedly engaged in while in Moscow, Brennan “specifically pushed for the inclusion of the dossier in the ICA,” that is, the CIA’s Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA). He did so “despite explicit warnings from his top operational and analytical management that the dossier ‘didn’t meet the most basic [of] tradecraft standards.’ Brennan said he didn’t care.”
Brennan wanted the dossier included because it was a cornerstone of their false claim that Trump had colluded with Russia and gained the presidency with Putin’s illicit help. Brennan was behaving as a cutthroat partisan and Trump-hater, not the intelligence professional he was supposed to be.
Wright details more of Brennan’s misdeeds, including his rushing of CIA analysts to produce the ICA so that he could use it against Trump as soon as his first term began. Such analyses “ordinarily can take months to prepare, especially for assessments of such length, complexity, and political sensitivity.” In this case, however, Brennan simply “didn’t care.” He wanted to be able to dog Trump from his first day in office, and he needed the ICA to do this.
Once he had the ICA, he did everything he could to make sure that it would be leaked, so as to ensure that it got maximum exposure from the leftist establishment’s propaganda arm, the mainstream media. Wright concludes that Brennan, along with the frankly unctuous former FBI top dog James Comey “and their fellow anti-Trumpers in the U.S. intel community intentionally tried to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump — with a tightly controlled, scripted, rushed, and poorly sourced ICA (and dossier).”
This was bigger than just Trump: “In doing so, they tried to destroy not just President Trump, but also the Republic itself. And that’s why this still matters.” Yes, it does. So does the fact that in coming out publicly for Iran over Trump, Brennan has shown again the anti-Americanism and short-sightedness of the left.
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