“Jesus, watch out…” Ominous exchange between ex-FBI agent and Ramaswamy raises red flags

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy met with a former FBI agent on the campaign trail in Iowa who appeared to warn him about security after he threatened to dismantle the agency.

“I met a former FBI agent and his wife on the campaign trail here in Iowa. They agree with me: We need to root out corruption and shut down the FBI. Locally, we have police and prosecutors. A at the federal level we have the US marshals and the DOJ A middle-of-the-road bureaucracy is fraught with risk politicized corruption and has been since J. Edgar Hoover in the 1960s,” Ramaswamy wrote in X.

Ramaswamy spoke with the former FBI agent who expressed his support for the candidate and expressed overwhelming concern for his safety.

TPUSA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk asked a surprising question about X after the exchange between the two men: “At a campaign stop in Iowa, Vivek Ramaswamy is accosted and warned by a former FBI agent FBI who worked in counterintelligence: “Jesus, be careful. … You would have very, very competent help, some very competent people to do intelligence work for you before you go places. Is this man warning Vivek that he is in danger because of the FBI?

I met a former FBI agent and his wife on the campaign trail here in Iowa. They agree with me: we need to root out corruption and shut down the FBI. At the local level, we have police and prosecutors. At the federal level, we have the US Marshals and the DOJ. An intermediary… pic.twitter.com/gt9153XyaS

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 1, 2023

Ramaswamy responded to the man by saying, “I know, I will. We are guided by our purpose. I know it can get ugly.”

The the man kept saying the young Republican be careful. He seemed extremely worried about Ramaswamy.

The outspoken conservative candidate wants to eliminate the FBI, as well as the Department of Education, IRS, ATF, CDC and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

“I don't think reform of this agency is really possible,” Ramaswamy said in September The shipment of Columbus. “I think you should close it.”

Vivek has released a plan to shut down the FBI. pic.twitter.com/T9nWcdjy2K

— KrimsonNews (@KrimsonNews) December 1, 2023

Regarding the plan to eliminate the FBI, Ramaswamy stated that he would “fire 20,000 employees who are deemed to have non-essential roles and send 15,000 to the United States Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of Finance”, according to the Associated Press.

“Part of the problem when you have a bureaucracy that runs the state, they find things to do that they shouldn't have done in the first place,” he added.

X users were also very concerned about Ramaswamy's safety:

It feels like a threat

— VK (@vjeannek) December 1, 2023

What happened to America? This is scary.

— Mike Sperrazza (@MikeASperrazza) December 1, 2023

They will stop at nothing to maintain control of the DC swamp. We saw that with Trump, and unsurprisingly, it will continue with anyone who is gaining momentum on Trump's side.

— Nebraska Freedom Coalition (@NebraskaFreedom) December 1, 2023

Wow! That's pretty intense.

— Croxxed Out (@FLCons) December 1, 2023

The corruption you want to eliminate will not go quietly.

Good intention, but when the system itself is corruption, there is no such thing as “rooting”.

— Think Harder (@iThinkHarder) December 1, 2023

The FBI has laid out who they are for all to see.

— Steel City Girl (@mcelh43488) December 1, 2023

As we have learned, we are all in danger from the FBI. The people in power do not see us as citizens.

— Progressing California (@ProgressingCali) December 1, 2023

Or scared him into silence? I would suspect that either option is viable

— Roxanna Graham (@roxanna_graham) December 1, 2023

The FBI is America's KGB

— Ò Cèlleachar (@ocelleachar) December 1, 2023

It is very sad that you have to fear your own government. What happened to America?

— Patrice (@truthwarrior324) December 1, 2023

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