Laxalt’s candidate has called to dissolve the FBI and DOJ
In new reporting, The Daily Beast has dubbed corrupt, failed politician Adam Laxalt’s endorsee for Congress a “fringe-right Jan. 6 truther and conspiracy theorist” who has gone all in on the debunked claim that undercover FBI agents raided the Capitol and that the agency should be dissolved as a result, along with the DOJ.
Laxalt has gone from Nevada’s chief law enforcement officer to supporting a candidate who wants to eliminate the FBI, which would gut counterterrorism programs and federal efforts to combat human trafficking.
By Roger Sollenberger // January 21, 2022
As attorney general of Nevada, Adam Laxalt was in charge of enforcing the law. But now that he’s a Republican Senate candidate, Laxalt is throwing his “extremely enthusiastic” support behind someone who wants to abolish the FBI.
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On Jan. 12, in response to a post from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) wondering whether “federal assets” encouraged protestors to enter the Capitol, Serrano—who launched her campaign by claiming that Democrats want to “defund the police”—tweeted that it was “time to dissolve” the FBI and, apparently, the Justice Department.
To state the obvious, that will never happen.
But Serrano kept at it, dismissing in a tweet this Tuesday the idea that those “crazy” theories were in fact crazy.
“The FBI REFUSED to answer whether there were undercover agents in the crowd on Jan 6 AND if Ray Epps was an informant,” Serrano said, adding that, “If FBI could just answer these questions all these ‘crazy conspiracies’ could be put to bed!”
On the one-year anniversary of Jan. 6, Serrano called the event a “fedsurrection.”
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She posted a statement the following day to social media, quoting Laxalt as “extremely enthusiastic” to back her. “I look forward to working together with her to bring about a historic red wave to Nevada,” Laxalt said.
Reached for comment about Serrano’s remarks on the FBI and Jan. 6, a Laxalt spokesperson replied, “I see you already have our statement.” Asked to clarify if he meant that the campaign would have otherwise replied with a copy-pasted version of the endorsement, the spokesperson did not respond.
Laxalt, of course, has had his own encounters with the FBI, including an alleged pay-to-play scheme when he was attorney general; he was never charged.
The Nevada Globe, which broke the endorsement news, quoted Serrano as “honored.”
She expressed gratitude to Laxalt after he “championed our Latinos for Trump efforts” and “worked tirelessly after Nov. 3 to try and get to the bottom of what truly transpired in our elections.” That’s a reference to several failed post-election lawsuits from Laxalt, who after losing a 2018 gubernatorial bid served as the Nevada co-chair for the Trump campaign.
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