Posted on 04/20/2022 4:02:39 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
The embattled Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was rocked again this week when an insider favored for the top job was abruptly demoted after being passed over a second time by President Joe Biden.
Reports said that Acting Director Marvin Richardson, the top black at the agency who had 30 years with ATF, announced Monday that he was being shoved aside by the White House. Biden last week chose a white lawyer to be head of sprawling law enforcement agency after his first pick, another white male, bowed out under pressure.
“The news that he was being replaced came as a shock to most of us within the agency,” one ATF official told The Reload, a Second Amendment new site.
“Refusing to consider an accomplished black agent like Richardson for the permanent position may lead to further controversy around Biden’s nomination of Steve Dettelbach,” reported Reload Editor Stephen Gutowski, known for his contacts at the agency that formulates and enforces gun laws.
Richardson had a base of support in the agency for the top job because of his law enforcement experience, years as a manager of the 5,000-employee agency, and balanced relationships with the gun industry.
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Maybe he wasn’t clean and articulate enough for Joe?
And why the concern over skin color instead of competency and experience with alcohol, tobacco, and firearms?
He was discovered to have not voted for Joe.
He must have been good, because we know the talents of the blacks that Slow Joe DOES pick. Hey Joe, hows da Ho?
Biden is a racist. It’s that simple.
Negro whining article 12,388,242.
My fatigue with the melanin folk is strong.
Puttin’ ya’ll back in chains!
Wow! An ATF Director who actually respects the industry he oversees?
Apparently sends the Dems right to their fainting couches.
The problem is the contention that being a straight Caucasian guy should put a person at the back of the line.
Richardson had ... balanced relationships with the gun industry.
Which is probably why he's been pushed aside.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
...knives, hammers, screwdrivers, nail-guns, bows and arrows,
bats, garbage disposals, and religious splinter groups.
Has complete immunity to prosecution for crimes. Willing to
travel...
It’s not like we wrote the founding documents, fought for freedom, invested in all the infrastructure, and invented everything...
The check must have not cleared.
Ten percent for the Big Guy, no exceptions. Anyone else notice that Dementia Joe called the agency “AFT” twice in his speech?
Formulate - to create or devise. I thought the legislative branch "formulated" gun laws?
You’re supposed to erase all awareness of good attributes and accomplishments so that you will be a blank slate on which the phrase Evil Oppressor can be written.
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