Appearing on Newsmax TV, Senator Rand Paul called for taking major action to reform an FBI that has become infected with “swamp fever,” or an obsession with gaining power and playing politics, saying that 10 percent of the agency needs to be fired if the FBI is going to be reformed. In his words:
“I think it’s swamp fever, Potomac fever. The ones closest to the swamp have become infected with influence and power and politics. I play golf with a retired FBI agent. He’s conservative. Most of the agents that I meet in the field are conservative.
“They’re typical law enforcement kind of people. … But really it’s the political class up here that is corruptible and [has] become very left-wing…these are the people infiltrating the FBI at the highest levels. We need a thorough cleaning. It’s only going to happen if we get a president who gets rid of the top 10% and brings in some law enforcement people from out in Kansas or Kentucky or someplace, people who truly are law enforcement people and let’s repopulate the FBI at the top with real law enforcement people, not politicians.”
Rand Paul is far from the only Republican to be furious with the FBI right now. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for instance, has posted a slew of posts calling for the FBI to be dismantled. That began in August when, after the Mar-a-Lago raid, she posted “DEFUND THE FBI!”
She then followed that up with a long thread on the importance of taking the FBI problem seriously, saying:
You know what makes you look unserious to Republican voters? Republican politicians who never actually take the bold actions to stop the Democrat’s relentless destruction of America, and even worse those same Republicans who join the America Last Uniparty.
I ran for Congress after being furious with the failures of a Republican majority under the first two years of President Trump. Republicans made big promises like repeal Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood, and build the wall. None of these things happened.
Instead, The Republicans didn’t repeal Obamacare that took my family’s health insurance premium from $800/mo to over $2,700/mo and caused MANY insurance companies to pull out of the market which severely limited the offering of policies available to consumers.
Democrat caused problems, but Republicans who didn’t do the hard work, in spite of the criticism to fix it, failed. That looks unserious.
That same Republican controlled majority and same Republicans who all are Pro-Life, apparently didn’t want to upset their abortion loving Democrat colleagues. Instead of passing strong Pro-Life legislation like the Life at Conception Act, or even just defunding all federal dollars from going to abortion mills, the Republican controlled Congress actually funded Planned Parenthood in a massive trillion dollar omnibus bill.
This outraged Conservative Republicans, but yet the omnibus bill still passed. Again, this is the type of thing that makes Republicans look unserious. But let’s point out just one more example, even though I could point out MANY things that make Republicans look unserious. During Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, one of his top agenda items was border security.
At every rally, we chanted “Build The Wall!” Republican voters and many Americans in general were fed up with the hypocrisy of sanctuary cities that protect illegal aliens paid for by our hard earned tax dollars, and outraged at the heartbreaking stories from Angel families about the deaths of their loved ones caused by crimes committed by illegals that would have never happened if America had strong border security and didn’t harbor illegals in sanctuary cities. Not to mention the videos of caravan after caravan of people invading our country, sad stories of child trafficking at the border, and the never ending flow of drugs into America that is poisoning our people.
Surely, the Republican controlled majority under President Trump would fund the border wall, strong border security, and defund Democrat controlled sanctuary cities that all of their Republican voters fully expected them to do. But nope, that Republican controlled Congress didn’t even fund the wall in 2018. Definitely unserious.
But perhaps one of the most frustrating and infuriating things to watch was the Russia Hoax created under the Obama admin and Hillary Clinton’s campaign with the fake Steele dossier. The corrupt FBI & DOJ colluded to lie to the FISA Court, unmask Trump staff, and spy on Trump.
Republican voters & many Americans did not believe the regurgitated lies that were broadcasted 24-7 by the Democrat’s mouthpiece, the corporate media. It was the Republican controlled Congress that allowed the witch hunt to carry on wasting millions of taxpayers dollars.
You have no idea how unserious Republicans looked for not taking the bold actions necessary to stop the Democrat’s Trump derangement investigations and lies pounded into history in order to feed hate into their voters so they could try to regain power at the next election.
It was the failure of a Republican controlled Congress to do what they said they would do that allowed Nancy Pelosi to take the gavel in 2019. And what could have been the most productive 4 years in American history turned into a slug fest bc Republicans were unserious.
You see even in the 117th Congress, there have been things that Republican voters find unserious. They are disgusted with Republicans who continue to fund foreign wars defending other countries borders while ours doesn’t exist. They can’t stand Republicans who join the World Economic Forum climate scam and energy killing agenda. They are outraged at Republicans who still think they have to be “bipartisan” & vote for bills that continue to bury America in debt and create more debilitating bureaucracy.
But the one thing that makes Republican voters the most angry are the Republican politicians who are too arrogant or disconnected from their base to comprehend how threatened they feel by rogue Gov agencies and unelected bureaucrats hell bent on ripping away their freedoms.
Of course we need federal law enforcement that will stop terrorists, lock up child sex predators, & destroy drug gangs, but political persecution by the corrupt top brass in the FBI & DOJ needs to be defunded and stripped of power. That’s the serious action our voters expect.
In another anti-FBI tweet she said “Our government has become an institution that protects and serves the elites, while the people suffer under the America last ruling class. We must defund the FBI, dismantle the DOJ, and gut the agencies of political biases and persecutions. I believe in the people.”
Similarly, Rep. Paul Gosar said, following the Trump raid, “I will support a complete dismantling and elimination of the democrat brown shirts known as the FBI. This is too much for our republic to withstand “.
Also joining in was Rep. Jeff Duncan, who said “The FBI has proven time and again that it is corrupt to the core. At what point do we abolish the Bureau and start over?”
By: Will Tanner. Follow me on Twitter @Will_Tanner_1
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