Former president Donald Trump has a plan to build a new FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. has sparked a Republican backlash and accusations that he has failed to “drain the swamp.”
It has been noted that the comfortable frontrunner for the Republican nomination voiced his support for a “spectacular” new headquarters in a December 30 post shared on his social media platform Truth Social.
While “drain the swamp” became a popular phrase used by Trump, it has been used by other politicians—including Democrat Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi in 2006—and refers to rooting out supposed corruption and wasteful spending in Washington D.C.
It has come to light that the GOP members have ramped up their attacks on the FBI following the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and have claimed federal agencies planted people that day and provoked the assault on the building.
“The FBI headquarters should not be moved to a far-away location, but should stay right where it is, in a new spectacular building, in the best location on our now crime-ridden and filthy-dirty, graffiti-scarred, capital,” Trump said.
“They should be involved in bringing back D.C., not running away from it, especially the violent crime.
“An important part of my platform for president is to bring back, restore, and rebuild Washington D.C. into the ‘crown jewel’ of the nation.
“We will make it crime-free and great again. The FBI should not be fleeing for safer, yet much less convenient, environs. It should make where they are now the safest place on earth. Don’t move the FBI.”
But Trump’s full-throated support for the agency and desire to see it in a new building was denounced by his fellow Republicans.
