Spoke to an FBI agent about #Portland: “these aren’t investigators they’re not even agents. All they do is transport fugitives and deport illegal immigrants. It’s not even police work.” Yikes.

They added “this is a charade of the worse kind. Federal investigators are very good at taking on complex and large-scale investigation. So what are these camo’ed people doing? It’s an embarrassment.”

I think the agents point was that these agents don’t really have experience conducting an investigation. They are tactical agents who “transport prisoners,”
and have little to no exp beyond that. So they are supremely unqualified to handle an investigation — they’re door kickers

Which us why the idea of an “investigation” is a sham. These guys are here to escalate and to make it seem, to Trumps base, that BLM is violent and to scare people into voting for him.

I’ll be on @MSNBC today 4PM ET/1PM PT discussing this.