The people's voice of reason
The people's voice of reason
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During President Donald J. Trump's first administration a cadre of politically connected FBI agents in the D.C. office played a large role in attempting to undermine the President. So much so that a special prosecutor was hired to investigate whether or not Trump was an intelligence asset for the Russians. Those bogus charges were eventually exposed as untrue; but not before wasting over half of Trump's first term and likely costing the GOP the majority in the 2018 elections. After Trump was out of the White House, FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago, Florida home looking for classified documents. Hundreds of FBI agents spent years attempting to discredit the former President.
Payback came on Friday when the Trump administration forced out a number of senior FBI officials and removed agents who had worked on the anti-Trump criminal cases. The administration also removed the heads of various field offices.
The Hill is reporting that agents who had worked on the Mar-a-Lago and Jan. 6 investigations were escorted out of the Washington Field Office.
They also reported that top FBI leaders in the Washington, D.C., Miami, Seattle, New Orleans and Las Vegas field offices were all removed.
In a related move, Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr., on Friday dismissed about 30 federal prosecutors who have worked on January 6, 2021 Capitol riot cases over the past four years.
The prosecutors were on probationary status after being converted to full-time from shorter-term positions after Election Day by the Biden administration.
Since his Jan. 20 appointment, Martin has ordered top supervisors in the Washington office to investigate the office's handling of the Capitol riot prosecutions.
President Trump's nominees to lead the FBI – Kash Patel – and the DOJ – former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi – have still not been confirmed by the U.S. Senate in their new roles heading those agencies. Patel said in his confirmation hearing that he was not aware of any plans to purge the FBI of agents who had investigated Trump.
Trump had made it clear that he would fire FBI Director Christopher Wray if he had remained in place. Trump appointed Wray during his first term, after firing James Comey as FBI director. Wray resigned before Trump took office rather than be fired.
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) has been a vocal critic of the outgoing FBI leadership.
“It’s been a disaster for the last four years with the FBI, the CIA, our military, our intel agencies,” Tuberville told Newsmax’s “Newsline” recently. “Something has to change. Seventy-seven million people voted for a change in this country, and we need to very quickly confirm all the people that you just announced, Kash Patel being one of those. Our FBI right now is going down the wrong path. We’ve got too many woke agendas and too many different teams in the FBI. We need one leader, one person to go in and shake this up and get us going in the right direction.”
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