Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton likens FBI to ‘Gestapo’ in Steve Bannon interview

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Republican) likened the FBI to the Nazi Gestapo during an interview with former President Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

Bannon, who is also the host of the right-wing podcast “War Room,” has likened the FBI to the Nazi Gestapo, a view echoed by Paxton in his interview with the former White House chief strategist.

“They have become the Gestapo. The American Gestapo. The Department of Justice is just as corrupt as Lisa Monaco, Matthew Colangelo, Merrick Garland and others,” Bannon said, referring to the Justice Department and its officials.

Paxton, who was impeached and ultimately acquitted by the Republican-led Texas House of Representatives, agreed with Bannon and offered a similar assessment of law enforcement.

“Steve, I’m telling you, they are the Gestapo,” Paxton said Wednesday. “We’re in Venezuela. It’s no different than being in China. It’s no different than being in Germany in the ’30s and ’40s. It’s corrupt. It’s the Gestapo.”

“We need more exposure and then the president needs to come in and bring in the attorney general and get these guys out, root out the corruption and make sure we start over,” Paxton said. Reportedly under FBI investigation“The FBI was created to go after organized crime, and now the problem is that the FBI is organized crime,” he continued.

Bannon then called for the FBI to be disbanded, and asked Paxton if he agreed, and the Texas attorney general agreed, claiming the FBI is a “political organization” rife with “corruption.”

“It would be better to have nothing now,” he said. “They don’t exist to stop crime anymore. They’re a political organization created to persecute people like you and me. So it’s better to have nothing now than to have it. So, yes, we have to destroy everything and start over. There’s too much corruption.”