Failed Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers is apparently out of contention for a role at the FBI, sources familiar with the matter said Friday.
According to former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, who will again serve in the second Trump administration, Rogers’ vying to head the FBI under President-elect Donald Trump’s second term earned a hard no from Trump.
Scavino reported from Mar-a-Lago that Trump said he’d “never even given [Rogers] a thought.”
Just spoke to President Trump regarding Mike Rogers going to the FBI. It’s not happening — In his own words, “I have never even given it a thought.” Not happening.
— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) November 22, 2024
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Rogers’ ‘deep-state’ bona fides are well documented — Wikileaks outlined Rogers’ involvement with an underbelly of ‘Never Trump’ former elected and intelligence officials committed to subverting Trump via the Hamilton 68 initiative, which cast Trump-aligned Americans and journalists as agents of Russian disinformation.
In other words, Rogers helped run interference in parallel to a politicized FBI’s empty Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the fictitious Steele Dossier supplied by Hillary Clinton.
Rogers’ prospective tenure at the FBI promised little relief to Americans wary of federal agencies and operators undermining the mandate given to the President; Trump’s apparent “no” comes as no shock, but does show what’s at stake for the bureau going forward.
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The FBI’s fractious previous decade has been an embarrassment: the Biden-Harris administration saw a politicized FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago, adding traditional Catholics who favored the Latin Mass to terror watch-lists, and giving the same treatment to parents who spoke out at school board meetings against harmful curriculum in schools.
Add to that a vengeful DOJ hounding Trump with federal charges over 2020 as states brought a litany of cases against him, too, and the weaponization of justice in America comes into full frame.
Yet that hasn’t stopped an unembarrassed mainstream media apparatus from continuing the full court press of projecting fears over Trump himself weaponizing the DOJ and FBI — when those agencies had clearly had Trump in the crosshairs.
Rogers’ prospective candidacy for the job had drawn praise from disgraced former FBI acting director Andrew McCabe, who oversaw Crossfire Hurricane, flashing warning signs for MAGA-aligned figures.
McCabe has also weighed in on other names floated for the job, including Kash Patel, an alumni of the first Trump administration. The formidable Patel played several National Security roles in the White House, including as senior advisor to the Director of National Intelligence and chief of staff to then acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.
“No part of the FBI mission is safe,” McCabe said, under a potential Patel FBI. McCabe is not alone in fearing Patel. Patel has called for declassification of the Jeffrey Epstein client list, the revealing of which enjoys bipartisan support, and documents related to the Sean “P-Diddy” Combs sex-trafficking ring, and the John F. Kennedy assassination.
The fact that corrupt former FBI official Andrew McCabe is for Mike Rogers for FBI Director tells you exactly why Donald Trump must NOT appoint Rogers.
Only Kash Patel will clean house at the epically corrupt FBI. pic.twitter.com/Xz9U52VXxD
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) November 22, 2024
The Trump camp has yet to comment on Patel’s prospects to lead the FBI, though the need for a shakeup is evident.