Former FBI Agent Gives Ominous Warning To Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘Be Careful’

A man who identified himself as a retired FBI agent warned Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy that he should “be careful” and get some “very competent people” around him in a chilling campaign trail moment.

The man identified himself as Mike Wyatt, a former police officer and 22-year veteran of the FBI. “When I went in, it was fidelity, bravery, integrity. It broke my heart,” Wyatt said in reference to the bureau’s current state. “This can’t be. This can’t go on.”

Ramaswamy thanked the man and his wife for attending the campaign event, at which point he said “Jesus, be careful.”

“You mean ‘be careful,’ be careful,” GOP contender said as he gathered that he was being warned about potential physical danger. “Yes, very careful,” the man replied.

When Ramaswamy asked what he should do, the man advised him to “get some very, very competent help” and “very competent people to do some intelligence work before you went places.”

“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 the corruption & shut down the FBI. At the local level, we have police & prosecutors,” Ramaswamy wrote in an X post shortly after the conversation.

“At the federal level, we have U.S. marshals & the DOJ. An intermediary bureaucracy is rife with risk for politicized corruption & it’s been happening since J. Edgar Hoover in the 60s. ”

Ramaswamy has made FBI reform and outright dismantling of several federal agencies one of the “ten commandments” of his campaign. ““In many cases, these agencies are redundant relative to functions that are already performed elsewhere in the federal government,” Ramaswamy said in an interview with NBC News this past July.

The GOP hopeful’s plan would divert funds meant for the FBI and distribute them to the U.S. Secret Service, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. This, he argues, would prevent corruption by reducing the size of the agency while making sure that key law enforcement duties are performed elsewhere.