Thus far, President Trump’s decisions to fill vacancies in his administration have been stellar. Sadly, President Trump realized the exhausting means what occurs when belief and loyalty will not be on the prime of the listing of {qualifications} for candidates he chooses to work together with him and members of his cupboard recurrently.
Right now marks the primary day that Trump supporters discover themselves scratching their heads over the potential number of former US Rep. and FBI Particular Agent Mike Rogers, who not too long ago ran for US Senate in Michigan as a Republican, because the potential FBI Director. Though Trump received the state of Michigan after days of counting, the very unpopular former CIA Analyst and former US Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D) was known as the winner of the race by a really slim margin. As an alternative of questioning the way it was potential that President Trump did so properly in Michigan, but he misplaced by a small margin after days of counting in a state with 9 days of early voting, Rogers conceded nearly instantly, with out even a lot as a whimper.
In 2020, Rogers mocked President Trump for questioning the election outcomes.
Did Rogers know one thing the remainder of us didn’t? Is it potential that Trump had already mentioned making Mike Rogers the subsequent FBI director if he misplaced or did he merely not have the need to battle? Or would Rogers placing up a battle over the late-night poll counting (once more) in the identical counties as in 2020 make him a hypocrite, contemplating how he trashed President Trump in a Detroit Information op-ed solely weeks after the extremely controversial 2020 election?
From Rogers’ November 21, 2020, Detroit News op-ed:
President Donald Trump’s makes an attempt to affect the electoral processes in Michigan, and elsewhere, is trigger for each concern and alarm, and ought to be roundly rejected by each Democrats and Republicans alike. By making an attempt to make use of the trimmings of the Oval Workplace to affect state officers, he’s violating norms of habits and setting a harmful precedent for the long run — not simply right here, however internationally. American democracy should be about multiple individual or one celebration, and proper now the president ought to honor the workplace by appearing accordingly.
The president is definitely inside his rights to contest outcomes the place he believes there might have been inaccuracies or impropriety, and there are authorized mechanisms for doing so. These efforts are unlikely to ship the outcomes he believes they are going to. His victory in 2016 was a lot nearer than his loss in 2020, and each votes had been held pretty and with bipartisan commentary. It’s properly previous time that the president accepts that he misplaced and start the peaceable and orderly transition of energy to President-elect Joe Biden.
The fact for Trump is that he misplaced the election, and never simply in Michigan. The 2020 election was maybe the largely carefully watched in historical past.
That we had been in a position to maintain an election in the course of a worldwide pandemic is one thing value celebrating — not even COVID-19 was in a position to disrupt our holding elections. Right here, state and native officers ought to be receiving a lot deserved applause for organizing and conducting the vote, enabling our democracy, upholding the legislation and counting each poll. These similar state and native officers now want to hold out their duties and certify the individuals’s resolution.
Rogers was thought-about for the highest spot on the FBI by Trump in 2017, however one other Trump-hating candidate took the coveted spot
This isn’t the primary time Rogers has been thought-about for the highest place on the FBI. In 2017, President Trump thought-about hiring Mike Rogers to interchange the disgraced, fired FBI Director James Comey. As an alternative of selecting the anti-Trump Rogers, he selected Christopher Wray, one other Trump-hater. On the time, Rogers was endorsed by the FBI Brokers Affiliation.
Here’s a montage of clips, largely taken from CNN, the place Rogers was a nationwide safety contributor and host of CNN Unique Sequence “Declassified.”
@realDonaldTrump
Is that this the man you interviewed for director of the FBI?MI didn’t need Mike Rogers to be our senate candidate, however you endorsed him anyhow.
Please don’t make the identical mistake twice. @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @TulsiGabbard @mattgaetz
h/t Sandy Pensler pic.twitter.com/Xui8GgtrMX
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) November 15, 2024
In response to a publish on “X” by Zero Hedge saying the interview between Trump and Rogers for the place of FBI Director, Sean Davis, CEO and founding father of The Federalist, had some fairly harsh issues to say about Mike Rogers:
Completely not. Mike Rogers is a CIA-owned, Deep State clown who couldn’t care much less about placing America First. He’ll stab Trump and all of his supporters within the again on the very first alternative with a purpose to push America Final neocon international coverage.
Completely not. Mike Rogers is a CIA-owned, Deep State clown who couldn’t care much less about placing America First. He’ll stab Trump and all of his supporters within the again on the very first alternative with a purpose to push America Final neocon international coverage. https://t.co/jDuJE5cU0g
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 8, 2024
Trump’s endorsement of Mike Rogers, MI candidate for the US Senate, confronted backlash from MI voters, Senator Rand Paul, and others near President Trump.
Senator Rand Paul was very vocal about President Trump’s endorsement of Mike Rogers for the US Senate in Michigan. Like Senator Paul, Trump’s resolution to endorse the vocal anti-Trump Rogers shocked many Trump supporters in Michigan.
Donald Trump simply endorsed the worst Deep State candidate this cycle. @MikeRogersForMI is a by no means Trumper, and a card carrying member of the spy state that seeks to destroy Trump.
It’s important to ask your self who provides Trump this terrible recommendation?
Who’s subsequent, John Bolton? pic.twitter.com/TZXRYLtFv6
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 11, 2024
Roger Stone, who paid a heavy value for his help for President Trump and is arguably considered one of Trump’s most loyal supporters, had this to say about the opportunity of Mike Rogers assuming the function of FBI Director beneath President Trump.
Former Michigan U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers was the chief apologist of the mass surveillance insurance policies that allowed President Donald Trump to be spied upon and sabotaged by the unaccountable deep state bureaucrats in Washington D.C.
After shedding a winnable Senate race earlier this month, Rogers is now angling to be Trump’s FBI Director and develop into the subsequent Christopher Wray or Invoice Barr, a fox within the hen home undermining President Trump’s America First agenda. Rogers has an extended historical past of being an anti-Trumper and was making media appearances calling Trump lifeless within the water – and even entertaining an anti-Trump presidential run – as not too long ago as final 12 months.
“I don’t consider at present as I’m sitting right here that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee in 2024. Don’t consider it… He may very well keep in for awhile. I simply don’t assume I consider he will likely be [the nominee]. His troubles are mounting, his fundraising is waning,” Rogers mentioned throughout an April 2023 interview with CBS Information.
In Nov. 2022, Rogers acquired a fawning profile within the Washington Submit when he was testing the waters for a Presidential run. Rogers mentioned that “Trump’s time has handed” and known as Trump’s motion “clearly harmful,” solely to vary his tune after it turned clear that Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, and the remainder of the anti-Trump clown crew failed abysmally to dethrone the Don.
Rogers additionally advised a gaggle of Oakland County, Mich. Republicans in Could 2023 that he helps the open-ended probe of election fraud protesters who had been assaulted by Capitol Police and led right into a federally-orchestrated show of violence on Jan. 6.
“While you assault a police officer, you’re a felony. While you break a window to get into a spot you aren’t approved to be in, you’re a felony,” Rogers mentioned, defending the murderous actions of Lt. Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police thug who murdered Air Power veteran Ashli Babbitt in chilly blood.
As Chairman of the Home Intelligence Committee, Rogers tried to stonewall the investigation into Benghazi, claiming that Obama’s CIA officers had been telling the reality and didn’t must be investigated. This drew the eye of Judicial Watch, and so they found that Rogers’ spouse Kristi ran a serious safety contractor within the personal sector the place her husband’s clout within the D.C. swamp helped her agency, Aegis Protection Providers, win many profitable authorities contracts.
Aegis was one of many protection companies that profited from Obama’s regime-change battle in Libya, which turned out to be as a lot of a catastrophe as any of his George W. Bush’s failed wars. As “quintessential Washington insiders,” in response to Judicial Watch, Kristi Rogers served as President and CEO of Aegis whereas Mike Rogers chaired the Home Intelligence Committee – a evident battle of curiosity as Aegis tallied Pentagon contracts value a whole lot of thousands and thousands.
Even CNN weighed in on the hypocrisy of the previous CNN host Mike Rogers after he appeared responsible Trump for any January 6 violence:
The day after January 6, 2021, Mike Rogers was blunt.
The previous Republican congressman blamed then-President Donald Trump’s “chaotic management type” for costing his celebration two vital Senate seats in Georgia. He mentioned that “the spell” round Trump had been damaged by the US Capitol assault, which, he mentioned, Trump’s actions “clearly” provoked. And in discussing a information report per week later saying that Trump privately acknowledged some duty for the assault, Rogers made his personal view crystal clear.
“Properly, you’re rattling proper you had duty for this,” Rogers mentioned of Trump on January 12, 2021.
Might a part of the explanation Republicans in Michigan didn’t appear to be overly bothered by Rogers’ loss within the senate race is that they by no means trusted him and his loyalty to Trump within the first place? Or might it’s that Michigan voters didn’t wish to elect anybody with deep ties to a authorities company they consider is headed up by deeply corrupt people who’re in mattress with soiled Democrats and Trump-hating Republicans—the identical company Trump is reportedly speaking to Rogers about main?