Public support for the FBI is sinking.
A recent poll by Rasmussen Reports found that more people than not see the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the personal political enforcement arm of Joe Biden, akin to the Gestapo of Nazi Germany.
Per the survey, 46 percent of U.S. voters surveyed believe “there is a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI … as Joe Biden’s personal Gestapo,” as opposed to 38 percent who do not hold such a belief.
Republicans, in particular, view the FBI in a negative light, with 64 percent believing it’s Biden’s “Gestapo,” compared to 30 percent of Democrats.
The poll also measured voters’ opinion of FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Said Rasmussen’s analysis, “Fifty percent of voters now believe the FBI director is influenced by the president in his decision-making, while only 26% believe Wray is truly independent of the administration, and another 25% are not sure. That’s a near-complete reversal from May 2017, when 53% believed the FBI director was truly independent and 26% thought he was influenced by the president.”
The public is virtually evenly divided on the bureau, with 46 percent having a favorable impression and 47 percent an unfavorable one.
Rasmussen concluded that voters’ view of the FBI correlates to their opinion of Joe Biden:
“President Biden’s strongest supporters have the most favorable impression of the FBI. Among voters who ‘Strongly Approve’ of Biden’s job performance as president, 86% view the FBI favorably. By comparison, among voters who ‘Strongly Disapprove’ of Biden’s performance, only 19% have a favorable impression of the FBI.”
Since January 6, 2021, the FBI has been hunting down individuals who were at the Capitol on that day, even those who merely walked into the Capitol Building but committed no acts of violence or vandalism.
KOMO News notes that, a year later, the FBI is still trying to find participants in the Capitol Protest, at which supporters of President Trump gathered to call on lawmakers to reject certification of the election on grounds of widespread voter fraud — something members of Congress were within their right to do.
The outlet reports:
The investigation has been a massive undertaking for federal law enforcement officials. More than 700 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the Jan. 6 attack, and arrests are still being made regularly.
But for the FBI agents working on the cases, the job is far from over. Agents and investigative analysts have been poring over thousands of hours of surveillance video….
“This investigation takes time because it is a lot of lot of work, a lot of painstaking work that they look at the video kind of frame by frame,” said Steven D’Antuono, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s field office in Washington.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are also tracking online posts promoting what they claim is an upcoming “violent reunion” on the anniversary of January 6.
“The calls for violence in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Jan. 6, are detailed in a Jan. 3 Department of Homeland Security open source intelligence report, which describes flyers for the violent reunion posted online,” Yahoo News reports.
Evidence strongly indicates the FBI was heavily involved in organizing the violent aspect of January 6, lending credence to the accusation that the so-called “riot” was a case of entrapment. The FBI has already admitted to the New York Times that they had informants and operatives inside groups attending the January 6 rallies in Washington, D.C.
As The New American reported this week, the FBI and other federal agencies had special-operations units with “shoot-to-kill authority” at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The common talking point from the mainstream media related to January 6 is that it was an “insurrection.” According to this narrative, anything and anyone related to that day’s protest against the election certification is also “insurrectionist” in nature, as the Left is now calling members of Congress who voted not to certify the 2020 election that day.
The “insurrection” rhetoric goes hand-in-hand with the media’s “authoritarian” narrative, which posits that the Republican Party is attempting to end representative government and replace it with a totalitarian regime. As a result, any and all suppression of Republicans — including targeting them with the FBI — is justified in the name of “saving democracy.”
