Trump’s acting attorney general, Emil Bove, directed the FBI to dismiss eight executive-level officials over the weekend. Additionally, a memo demanded the names of everybody else who had any interactions with the investigation by Tuesday. Crockett appeared on MSNBC Reports on Sunday, referring to the dismissals as a “cleansing.”
“Listen, when Democrats got out there and we said that our democracy was really at risk, people were like, ‘Oh, Democrats, you’re out there, you’re gaslighting. It’s not our democracy.’ Well, he did say he’d be a dictator on Day One. ‘Oh, Democrats, you know, it’s just Trump. He just talks,’” Crockett said. “Well, let me tell you something. He is doing more than talking.”
Multiple people confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the total number of involved FBI agents could be in the thousands.
“We have some sort of checks and balances, and he is doing everything that he can to get rid of those checks and balances. The DOJ and the people that he’s going after were simply doing their jobs,” Crockett continued. “The problem is that Americans thought that it was OK to take a full-fledged criminal and make him the president of the United States, and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the United States. And if we don’t wake up, we may not have the United States because right now, he has only been successful in being a divider-in-chief.”
When asked about these dismissals, Trump said he was not aware.
“But we have some very bad people over there. It was weaponized at a level that nobody has ever seen before,” Trump told reporters. “They came after a lot of people like me, but they came after a lot of people. No, I wasn’t involved in that. I’ll have to see what is exactly going on after this is finished.”
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Trump spent his first hours in office issuing mass clemencies, commutations, and pardons for Jan. 6 rioters. Some 1,230 rioters were convicted or pleaded guilty. Another group of about 200 rioters pleaded guilty to felonies that included assaulting officers.
Crockett was elected to Congress after Trump left office but has long criticized him while on the campaign trail. The Texas representative endorsed Harry Dunn, a former Capitol police officer, ahead of his failed congressional bid, in a slight to Trump, as Dunn’s campaign centered on the Capitol riots.
