Congressional candidate Joe Kent lost a red district in 2022. He’s running for the same seat this cycle, and advocating for dismantling the FBI.
bureaucratic workers and reassign the 15,000 field agents to various other federal law enforcement outfits—presumably without also porting over the bureaucratic support.)
In June 2020, as the country was gripped in the unrest following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Kent said the Trump administration should refrain from deploying military forces and turn to the FBI, specifically as a domestic intelligence agency. Of course, the domestic target at the time was not conservatives, but leftists.
Kent also called on local officials to collaborate with the agency, saying there was a “danger of Trump taking too much of a lead” in managing the unrest, letting local governments off the hook.a post from priest Father Edward Beck, who was criticizing Trump’s photo-op at St. John’s Church after using federal forces to violently disperse peacefully gathered protesters.
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