GAI President Peter Schweizer appeared on Maria Bartiromo’s “Sunday Morning Futures” program on Fox News. He named former CIA Director Gina Haspel as worth further investigation.
After reacting to congressional testimony this week of Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who denied that the staff saw any deterioration in President Joe Biden’s mental state while he was in office, Schweizer and fellow panelist Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist switched to the renewed questions about the Russia collusion story after the declassification of emails and meeting logs from the last days of the Obama administration.
These records documented efforts by Barack Obama and his top intelligence officials to push the Russia collusion story against Donald Trump.
Schweizer scoffed at statements made denying this by former Clinton and Biden staffer John Podesta, calling them “particularly rich” since Podesta “literally, a couple years before that interview, was on the board of directors of an energy company called Joule Energy that had taken $40 million from Russia’s sovereign wealth fund that was personally run by Vladimir Putin.”
A number of former officials have been implicated in the declassified documents, including former CIA director John Brennan, and former NSA head Richard Clapper.
“One name I’d like to see out there more is Gina Haspel. She was the CIA director, appointed by Donald Trump [in his first term]. She certainly had access to this material. It’s interesting to me that she was the London chief of the CIA in the 2000s,” Schweizer explained. “In 2014, CIA Director John Brennan sent her back there, which was a highly unusual move, and she was there during this period. Much of the fake Russia collusion intel, from Steele and others, was coming out of London. So, what role did she play in creating this? And also, what role did she play in suppressing it when she was CIA director and she was supposed to be serving Donald Trump rather than the CIA establishment?”
On the topic of Biden’s mental decline and the testimony of former staffers denying they saw anything amiss, Schweizer said, “The notion that White House staffers were insisting that ‘he seems fine to us’ is ridiculous.”
“Just look at the numbers,” he continued. “In 2021, he had 58 known phone calls with foreign leaders. By 2024, that was down to 20. Look at the press conferences. He went from having nine solo press conferences to zero in 2024. There were conscious decisions being made to make sure he was not being exposed to the public.”
Why would they do so?
“Joe Biden was the so-called centrist candidate in 2020, but he became one of the most progressive, perhaps the most progressive ever. That is a reflection of the staff,” Schweizer said. “I don’t think Joe Biden pivoted that quickly. So, the reason the progressive left didn’t mind this is because they were getting exactly what they wanted.”
Today on @SundayFutures with @MariaBartiromo, The Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway @MZHemingway and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer @peterschweizer spoke about the investigation into former President Biden’s mental fitness and the origins… pic.twitter.com/cqxLhYuheR
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) July 27, 2025
