Texas AG Ken Paxton Rages at FBI, Calls For ‘Gestapo’ Agency to Be Fully Dismantled in Wild Rant
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton raged at the FBI and demanded it be fully dismantled in a wild interview with Steve Bannon.
Paxton, the controversial attorney general who was impeached by the GOP-controlled House of Representatives in Texas on charges related to bribery and briefly suspended until he was acquitted by the Texas Senate, is reportedly under FBI investigation over allegations he benefitted a wealthy donor.
On Bannon’s show, he compared the FBI to the “Gestapo” in Nazi Germany.
During an interview on Thursday, Paxton demanded that the organization be dismantled, adding that “it would be better not have anything there” because “there’s so much corruption.”
Watch the clip below:
NEW: In an interview with Steve Bannon, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been under FBI investigation, called for dismantling the FBI, and described the agency as “the gestapo” and a “criminal organization.” He also said what he would do on day one if he is Trump’s AG. pic.twitter.com/zxGUUQvjdB
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) May 30, 2024
Read a full transcript of his comments below.
PAXTON: They are the Gestapo. We’re in Venezuela. We might as well be in China. We might as well be in Germany during the 30s and 40s. It is corrupt, is the Gestapo. They don’t follow any laws anymore. And no one can stop. No one can stop them. And because of what happened to me, these other AG’s are afraid to do anything anyway. So there’s a lot of fear because like, what can you do? How do you stop them? And I think that the exposure of this case of this judge is unredacted, all this stuff, we’ve got to have more exposure. And then second, we got to have a president will come in, bring in an attorney general that will take these guys out and make sure that the corruption is eliminated and that we start over. You’re right. When I heard you say we need to start over, because right now, you know, they were formed. FBI was formed to go after organized crime. And the problem with that now is they are organized crime. They’re paid for by taxpayer dollars. They have become organized crime.
BANNON: But do you agree with me that….President Trump, God bless him, he’s setting out for his urban renewal of DC. He’s saying, hey, we’re going to build a big, beautiful headquarters. I said, hey, how about plan B, which we take it, take everybody out of the building, take it apart, slab by slab, because it’s a monstrosity. And then do what the Romans did to Carthage, salt the earth around it. So nothing else was ever built there. As an attorney general, the most powerful state in the union. Do you believe we have to start at scratch, take their charter away, which, by the way, is not renewed, hasn’t been renewed in decades, but just deauthorize them. Take the charter away. And if we need a federal law enforcement force to work with the states in the state, AGS and the prosecutors and the local attorneys rebuild it, do you agree with that?
PAXTON: It would be better to have nothing. Right now everybody’s like, well, what about crime? Well, they’re not there to stop crime anymore. There are political organizations designed to persecute people like you and me. And so it would be better not to have anything there then to have that. So yes, you have to you have to take it to the ground and start over. There’s I don’t know any other way because there’s so much corruption. And it’s been so built up by so many other people for so long.
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