🧵 One FBI. Two bad apples. BOTH from the same family.
Recently fired Special Agent Walter Giardina — who orchestrated my wrongful arrest — and his FATHER-IN-LAW former FBI Deputy Director Larry A. Potts.
This is the chilling saga of 2 disgraced agents linked by blood who have forever stained the Bureau’s reputation.
2/ Bad apple Larry Potts was FBI’s #2, demoted after two of the deadliest failures in Bureau history: Ruby Ridge and Waco.
3/ At Ruby Ridge, Potts was in the oversight chain when the FBI adopted special “rules of engagement” stating: “Any armed adult male… could and should be shot.”
It was a license to kill.
4/ Randy Weaver’s 14-year-old son shot dead. Vicki Weaver shot in the head holding her infant daughter.
Potts didn’t receive so much as a censure until 1995—and was still promoted that same year to Deputy Director by his friend, FBI Director Louis Freeh.
Apparently, sh*t rolls uphill at the FBI.
5/ Then came Waco, 1993.
A 51-day siege. Armored vehicles. Tear gas.
It ended in a massive fire. 76 men, women, and children died. Potts helped oversee the debacle.
6/ Facing backlash, Freeh demoted the same friend he had just promoted.
But it wouldn’t be Potts' last scandal - “Pottsgate” soon followed.
To expense attendance at Potts' lavish retirement dinner, FBI senior managers created fake paperwork for a fake “ethics conference” at Quantico.
7/ Falsify records as a field agent? You’re fired.
Do it for the boss’s party? You get a wrist slap—and a pension.
Potts retired in 1997. The rot and corruption that defined his tenure remained.
8/ Here’s the “you can’t make this up” part:
Potts is the father-in-law of Walter Giardina—the same FBI agent who staged my handcuffs, leg irons, and circus airport arrest in 2022.
9/ Whistleblowers—backed by documents released by Sen. Chuck Grassley—have linked Giardina to:
— The Steele Dossier
— Crossfire Hurricane
— The Mueller Probe
— The Egypt “Red Maasari” Hoax
— Operation Arctic Frost
10/ Giardina allegedly vouched for the fabricated Hillary-funded Steele Dossier.
Served on Mueller’s special counsel witch hunt team.
Allegedly may have wiped his Bureau-issued laptop.
Then staged my circus-style airport ambush—for the cameras.
Turns out, Giardina is at the center of nearly EVERY lawfare attempt to stop Donald Trump.
11/ Senator Grassley once named Larry Potts a symbol of toxic FBI culture.
Now he’s blown the whistle on Potts’ own son-in-law Giardina.
Two decades apart. Same senator. Same warnings. Same Bureau rot. Same family names.
You can’t make this up.
12/ This isn’t just about me or President Trump.
It’s about a lawless, unaccountable FBI—and the corrupt political protection racket it became.
We must not let that stand. Lock THEM up.
Start with an investigation of Walter Giardina.
🚨Get the full story in my new piece in the @DailyCaller
dailycaller.com/2025/09/03/pet…
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