OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
12:59 PM – Friday, November 22, 2024
Former Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Rogers claims he can overhaul the FBI and create positive change, but 47-year-old senior adviser Dan Scavinoth President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that he has no plans to nominate Rogers to head the agency.
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“People are losing trust in the FBI,” Rogers said. “Even people like me can regain that faith.”
Echoing President Trump's assertion that the FBI has focused on politics under the Biden administration, Rogers pointed to the rise in violent crime and said, “This is where the FBI should be putting its resources.”
“We shouldn't get involved in politics. And we need to change the culture of the FBI on the seventh floor, and there needs to be some kind of reckoning. We know we can cure cancer without killing the patient. That's what it is. This is what should happen at the FBI.”
Mr. Scavino's post is the latest information provided regarding Mr. Trump's intentions with the FBI.
Current FBI Director Christopher Wray is expected to be fired before his term ends. Wray had previously expressed skepticism about Trump's first assassination attempt, even though the 50-year-old fire chief died and two others were seriously injured in the aftermath. .
“The latest National Mood Poll conducted by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy from November 14 to 18, 2022, shows that [found] According to apmresearchlab.org, Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to trust the Federal Bureau of Investigation and believe FBI agents are fair.
Rogers, on the other hand, is seen as a more “traditional” choice to head the FBI, having served about five years as a special agent, served several terms in Congress, and served as the Republican leader of the House Intelligence Committee for four years. There is.
In 2013 and 2017, the FBI Agents Association recommended Mr. Rogers to lead the FBI. Rogers, the former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, narrowly lost a race for the Michigan Senate seat earlier this month. Before President Trump nominated Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense, he was also considered for the position, according to the Times. politiko.
However, there are rumors that President Trump will nominate Kash Patel, a senior official who held national security positions during his first administration. Mr. Patel served on the staff of the National Security Council and served as senior adviser to the acting director of national intelligence and chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense during President Trump's first term.
“Mr. Patel joined HPSCI after a stint as a terrorism prosecutor at the Department of Justice (DOJ), where he led investigations across multiple conflict zones and successfully prosecuted criminals aligned with al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorism. Mr. Patel also directed the group. He also served as the Department of Justice Liaison Officer to Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), where he collaborated with our nation's most prestigious counterterrorism forces to conduct global cooperative targeting operations against high-value terrorist targets.” His biography on the website states: .
Patel has previously argued that the FBI has become a weaponized agency, taken over by shady actors with ulterior motives, who do not put the American people or their safety first.
“The deep state cannot be trusted. They have weaponized the government for their own political and personal ends,” Patel wrote in an email last week.
Earlier this week, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance deleted a post in which he said his transition team was talking to potential candidates as a sign of his intention to succeed Wray.
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