Ron DeSantis has promised to fire the FBI’s director and reduce the agency’s footprint in Washington by “at least 50 per cent” on “day one” of his presidency if he wins the White House in 2024.
The Florida governor has reportedly been working for months on a plan to gut and then drastically reform the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Mr DeSantis, who remains Donald Trump’s strongest challenger for the Republican nomination, said if he won the 2024 election: “You have a new FBI director on day one. You have a house-cleaning on day one.”
The proposal has formed part of Mr DeSantis’s response to the criminal charges against Mr Trump for allegedly mishandling classified government secrets.
The 77-year-old Mr Trump holds a commanding lead – 53.4 per cent according to polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight – over the Republican primary field, despite his mounting legal quandaries.
Mr DeSantis is in second place at 21 per cent, according to the website.
By focusing his response to Mr Trump’s criminal case on attacking the DoJ, Mr DeSantis has struck a chord with Mr Trump’s base – allowing the governor to regain some of the media spotlight the former president has commanded since his indictment.
Polling by Reuters/Ipsos since the 49-page criminal indictment was published last Friday found that 81 per cent of Republican voters believe Mr Trump is being unfairly targeted.
King-Owl-House on June 17th, 2023 at 17:29 UTC »
That it, that is the moment when domestic terrorist saying he will replace law enforcement with Brownshirts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
YgramulTheMany on June 17th, 2023 at 16:50 UTC »
How exactly does that keep us safe from terrorists?
Much_Schedule_9431 on June 17th, 2023 at 16:50 UTC »
Party of “law and order” wants to quite literally defund the police. Lol.
Edit: from the article itself “Mr DeSantis elaborated further on his plans to revamp Washington in a series of press interviews this week, saying: “We will also reduce the footprint of all these [federal] agencies but particularly DoJ and FBI within DC by at least 50 per cent.””