Anti-Trump Neocon Mike Rogers is the Wrong Choice for FBI Director

Mike Rogers was a cheerleaders for the Mueller investigation. Why should he be Trump's FBI Director?

Former Michigan U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers was the chief apologist of the mass surveillance policies that allowed President Donald Trump to be spied upon and sabotaged by the unaccountable deep state bureaucrats in Washington D.C.

After losing a winnable Senate race earlier this month, Rogers is now angling to be Trump’s FBI Director and become the next Christopher Wray or Bill Barr, a fox in the hen house undermining President Trump’s America First agenda. Rogers has a long history of being an anti-Trumper and was making media appearances calling Trump dead in the water – and even entertaining an anti-Trump presidential run – as recently as last year.

“I don’t believe today as I’m sitting here that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee in 2024. Don’t believe it… He may actually stay in for awhile. I just don’t think I believe he will be [the nominee]. His troubles are mounting, his fundraising is waning,” Rogers said during an April 2023 interview with CBS News.

In Nov. 2022, Rogers received a fawning profile in the Washington Post when he was testing the waters for a Presidential run. Rogers said that “Trump’s time has passed” and called Trump’s movement “clearly destructive,” only to change his tune after it became clear that Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, and the rest of the anti-Trump clown crew failed abysmally to dethrone the Don.

Rogers also told a group of Oakland County, Mich. Republicans in May 2023 that he supports the open-ended probe of election fraud protesters who were assaulted by Capitol Police and led into a federally-orchestrated display of violence on Jan. 6.

“When you assault a police officer, you are a criminal. When you break a window to get into a place you are not authorized to be in, you are a criminal,” Rogers said, defending the murderous actions of Lt. Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police thug who murdered Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt in cold blood.

“They used mace on a police officer… Those people are criminals and needed to be pursued. We shouldn’t even think about that,” he added.

Rogers’ offenses against America First are long and sordid and go back to his role in one of the worst criminal acts of the Obama administration: Benghazi.

As Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rogers attempted to stonewall the investigation into Benghazi, claiming that Obama’s CIA officials were telling the truth and did not need to be investigated. This drew the attention of Judicial Watch, and they discovered that Rogers’ wife Kristi ran a major security contractor in the private sector where her husband’s clout in the D.C. swamp helped her firm, Aegis Defense Services, win many lucrative government contracts.

Aegis was one of the defense firms that profited from Obama’s regime-change war in Libya, which turned out to be as much of a disaster as any of his George W. Bush’s failed wars. As “quintessential Washington insiders,” according to Judicial Watch, Kristi Rogers served as President and CEO of Aegis while Mike Rogers chaired the House Intelligence Committee – a glaring conflict of interest as Aegis tallied Pentagon contracts worth hundreds of millions.

Aegis won the renewal of a Pentagon contract for reconstruction efforts in Iraq that was “worth up to $475 million over two years,” while Kristi Rogers was an Aegis lobbyist. They also were awarded a $497 million State Department contract to secure the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Most notably, Aegis won a stake in the five-year State Department contract worth up to $10 billion with the express purpose of keeping embassies safe back in 2010. Although Aegis has publicly denied culpability with the Benghazi disaster, their record of malfeasance in Libya is undeniable.

“Aegis has been operating in Libya since February 2011,” Aegis Advisory intelligence report stated to its corporate clients. The report also claimed that “Aegis has extensive links in Libya which can be leveraged quickly to ensure safe passage,” as they were reportedly seeking $5 billion in contracts to operate in the country.

Aegis severely understated the threat of Islamic extremism in Benghazi to contractors who could have presumably stopped the brutal murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. An Aegis analyst claimed that Islamic extremism was minimal, and Islamic countries active in the region had the threat under control.

“Despite reports of pockets of jihadist elements the presence of Islamic extremism has so far been low-key,” a senior Aegis official reported after visiting Benghazi in summer 2011, noting that U.S. allies “Qatar and the UAE [United Arab Emirates] have established a strong presence on the ground, providing tactical assistance at all levels, weapons, and recognition."

Kristi Rogers “obtained top-secret facility security clearance for Aegis, created the company’s board of directors and positioned it for future growth and expansion,” according to her former profile at Manett law firm. Kristi left Aegis in disgrace after the Benghazi scandal, and her husband high-tailed it out of Congress shortly after, preferring to collect corporate lobbyist paychecks rather than deal with the fallout of their cronyism.

Rogers has raked in millions following his departure from Congress, funding a lavish lifestyle, and leaving his home state of Michigan in the dust. Rogers has raked in nearly $2 million from serving on the boards of various tech and cybersecurity firms in the past two years alone, cashing in on his deep state bona fides and amassing assets of $17.5 million as a military-industrial grifter. Rogers lived in a mansion worth $1.5 million in Cape Coral, Florida before relocating and buying a home in the Detroit area only a few months before announcing his U.S. Senate run last year. He is an example of the worst of what the Washington D.C. swamp has to offer.

Rogers’ appointment as FBI Director would undermine the immense progress made with appointments such as Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services. He must be rejected, and a tested patriot like Kash Patel appointed as FBI Director to clean up deep state corruption.