Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, said Monday on Fox News that the FBI is “afraid” that President-elect Donald Trump and members of the incoming administration could “reexamine” the agency’s investigation. “There is,” he said.
The FBI faced massive backlash last year over security deficiencies, and President Trump nominated Kash Patel to be the agency’s new director. If Patel is confirmed, it would bring an early end to the term of current FBI Director Christopher Wray. On “The Ingraham Angle,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham questions Hanson about authorities releasing new footage of the suspect planting a pipe bomb in Washington, D.C., four years after the incident. did.
“I think they were afraid that the narrative had changed in four years, and they were afraid to release information during an election. Now, they’re afraid that there’s going to be a new administration and there’s going to be some kind of exposure or accountability.” They feel that if they were Donald Trump and were suffering for what they did to him, they would be very frightened, just as they think. ,” Hanson said. “So they think Donald Trump is going to reconsider a lot of things.”
New footage released by the FBI’s Washington field office shows a suspect planting a bomb near the Democratic National Committee.
Hanson went on to call the FBI “lies” for not immediately releasing the identity of Lt. Michael Byrd, the man who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the January 6 riot. The senior researcher also noted the number of charges filed against participants in the January 6 attack compared to participants who were not charged during the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots. . (Related article: Kash Patel wants the FBI to step back from spying — this is a good place to start)
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“Laura, a lot of what they said was a terrible lie,” Hanson said. “There weren’t four police officers killed. There weren’t 10 dead. There was probably only one unintentional death, and that was Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter. There’s no longer a need to hide the identity of a police officer. Every time a police officer shoots an unarmed person in this country, that person is identified. For some reason, they wanted to suppress that.”
“They wanted to hide the FBI video. They wanted to suppress information about Liz Cheney, and there was supposedly witness tampering,” Hanson said. “They wanted to limit the leakage of evidence to some extent. They didn’t say how many people were indicted. It’s over. [with] 1,500 felonies. it was [an] Almost 75% conviction rate. That will never happen. Compare that to the 14,000 people arrested in 2020. Almost 90% of them were never charged or prosecuted. they were released. So they had a lot of things they wanted to suppress. ”
In 2020, BLM was involved in 9 out of 10 riots. According to a study conducted by the US Crisis Monitor, a joint project of Princeton University’s Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project and the Fragmentation Initiative, there were 637 incidents of violence in the country between May 26, 2020 and September 12, 2020. occurred. As thousands of people are arrested in various states, the U.S. Department of Justice released In a statement on September 24, 2020, it said 300 people in 29 states and Washington, D.C., were charged with federal crimes.
For years, the FBI has faced challenges from Republicans and other experts regarding its guidance, even though Democrats like Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar have said the agency is already “very effective.” I have faced doubts. For example, the agency received significant backlash for providing limited cooperation after the first assassination attempt on President Trump on July 13, 2024.
One day early in the new year, the FBI overturned multiple claims about a terrorist attack in New Orleans that killed at least 14 people and injured dozens. At a press conference the day after the attack, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Aretha Duncan told reporters that the attack was “not a terrorist incident.” However, when New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell told reporters that the incident was a terrorist attack, her statement was ignored within five minutes.
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