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Mr. Sparkle

(3,713 posts)
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 08:16 AM Feb 2025

FBI Agents Involved In Trump Cases 'Escorted Out' of Offices in Friday Night Purge

Source: Mediaite.com

FBI agents who investigated President Donald Trump and who were fired by the bureau on Friday were “escorted out” of the Washington field office, according to reports. A so-called “purge” of rank-and-file agents and the heads of 20 field offices was announced earlier in the day. Among those who were axed was David Sundberg, who former FBI Director Christopher Wray appointed to head the D.C. field office in 2022.

Also on the chopping block were agents reportedly involved in investigating Trump’s classified documents case as well as his Jan. 6 election interference case. The Hill reported Friday evening that the agents in Washington were “escorted out” of the building:

The Trump administration forced out a number of FBI officials Friday, removing agents who worked on the criminal cases into President Trump as well as the heads of various field offices. A source familiar said agents who had worked on the Mar-a-Lago and Jan. 6 investigations were escorted out of the Washington Field Office. The same source said officials in charge of the Washington, D.C., Miami, Seattle, New Orleans and Las Vegas field offices were removed.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry told the agents their role in investigating Trump was the reason for their dismissals. “Given your significant role in prosecuting the President, I do not believe that the leadership of the Department can trust you to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully,” McHenry wrote in an email obtained by CNN. Trump denied Friday afternoon during an Oval Office press conference that he ordered the firings.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/news/fbi-agents-involved-in-trump-cases-escorted-out-of-offices-in-friday-night-purge/

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FBI Agents Involved In Trump Cases 'Escorted Out' of Offices in Friday Night Purge (Original Post) Mr. Sparkle Feb 2025 OP
All part of a National Coup. Botany Feb 2025 #1
Unquestionably true. dchill Feb 2025 #13
We executed the Rosenbergs and had ex FBI agent Robert Hansen die in our super max Fed prison Botany Feb 2025 #16
Losing your job for doing it well due to a politicized spoils system. /nt bucolic_frolic Feb 2025 #2
Yes. riversedge Feb 2025 #4
Too bad SC Smith's Mar-a-Lago classified documents report wasn't made public before Garland left town. sop Feb 2025 #3
A crime in itself, IMO. dchill Feb 2025 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author LiberalArkie Feb 2025 #5
The Heritage Foundation needs to be shut down as a terrorist organization. valleyrogue Feb 2025 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author LiberalArkie Feb 2025 #19
Without murdering his enemies, Trumpf is following the Dictator's Handbook. C0RI0LANUS Feb 2025 #6
Without murdering his enemies... RevBrotherThomas Feb 2025 #8
Just shaking my head. Can't believe this is happening in the United States. Fla Dem Feb 2025 #7
"It Can't Happen Here" Sinclair Lewis (1935). C0RI0LANUS Feb 2025 #9
Remember-these were cases where Grands Juries heard the evidence and approved indictments KatyBR Feb 2025 #10
I hope they stole a lot of documents on their way out the door FakeNoose Feb 2025 #11
Trump and his cabal may live to regret this. orangecrush Feb 2025 #12
I wouldn't count the military, the CIA or the Secret Service out, either. valleyrogue Feb 2025 #18
I hope Monday they'll be escorted into a courtroom to file their lawsuits against Dear Leader. Vinca Feb 2025 #15
I'm sure there are already thousands of lawsuits pending pfitz59 Feb 2025 #20
Kick. dchill Feb 2025 #21
Who escorted them out? Their fellow FBI coworkers, pardoned J6er's, the marshal service, MP's, rent-a-cops, Hotler Feb 2025 #22

Botany

(77,352 posts)
1. All part of a National Coup.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 08:23 AM
Feb 2025

Thank you Merrick Garland. Trump should be in our Super Max Prison in Colorado not the
White House. Reality Winner got 5 years for 1 document that told of Russian involvement
in our elections and the GOP.

dchill

(42,660 posts)
13. Unquestionably true.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 04:05 PM
Feb 2025

We ALL saw him commit the crimes of sedition and insurrection. On national television. Live and in color.

Botany

(77,352 posts)
16. We executed the Rosenbergs and had ex FBI agent Robert Hansen die in our super max Fed prison
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 05:13 PM
Feb 2025

…. doing 15 life terms for doing what Trump did with our nation’s top secrets. Trump also gave
up the names and locations of all of intelligence people and their contacts. And now he, Musk,
the GRU, and the right wing are taking over our democracy and replacing it with a fascist dictatorship.

sop

(18,653 posts)
3. Too bad SC Smith's Mar-a-Lago classified documents report wasn't made public before Garland left town.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 08:31 AM
Feb 2025

No doubt all the FBI's investigation files are being deleted as well. I hope one of these fired FBI agents has copies hidden somewhere.

Response to Mr. Sparkle (Original post)

valleyrogue

(2,722 posts)
17. The Heritage Foundation needs to be shut down as a terrorist organization.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 05:15 PM
Feb 2025

Ditto for the Federalist Society and the rest of the Paul Weyrich "new right" organizations.

Response to valleyrogue (Reply #17)

C0RI0LANUS

(3,017 posts)
6. Without murdering his enemies, Trumpf is following the Dictator's Handbook.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 09:58 AM
Feb 2025

.

On the "Night of the Long Knives", Der Fuhrer ordered the army to arrest SA leaders (Brownshirts) who he considered a threat to his power, particularly Ernst Röhm. Here, German soldiers cross the street to SA HQ. (Photo: 30 Jun 1934)




Stalin did the same thing with his internal enemies.



One of Stalin's show trials of false accusations leading to death or the gulag.

Fla Dem

(27,640 posts)
7. Just shaking my head. Can't believe this is happening in the United States.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 12:22 PM
Feb 2025

We have become a totalitarian nation


Totalitarianism, form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/totalitarianism

C0RI0LANUS

(3,017 posts)
9. "It Can't Happen Here" Sinclair Lewis (1935).
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 03:31 PM
Feb 2025
We saw this coming a mile away and years ago.




How did we let this happen to us-- who was the incumbent party in charge-- in 2024?

In 2024, Trumpf won 49.8% of the popular vote (barely a plurality). But we, the incumbent party, had won 51.3% of the popular vote with 81,283,501 ballots in 2020. Dismally, Harris/Walz won 75,017,613 votes, 6,265,888 less votes than from 2020.

Some Democrats on DU scapegoat Arab-Americans who make up only 1.1% of the US population (1,698,570 citizens and not all of them are of voting age). Trumpf won 21% of their vote, Harris 20%, and Stein 59%. Even is if this Islamophobic slander were true, we still cannot account for 4,567,318 people whose support we lost between 2020 and 2024.

Now we are all of us in the gutter...

KatyBR

(203 posts)
10. Remember-these were cases where Grands Juries heard the evidence and approved indictments
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 03:39 PM
Feb 2025

And in the case of January 6 insurgents, there were jury trials. These agents did not have a political agenda. Their job was to investigate LAWS being breached.

FakeNoose

(41,691 posts)
11. I hope they stole a lot of documents on their way out the door
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 03:45 PM
Feb 2025

Chump loves that kind of behavior.

orangecrush

(30,338 posts)
12. Trump and his cabal may live to regret this.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 04:03 PM
Feb 2025

Fucking with FBI agents generally doesn't end well.

valleyrogue

(2,722 posts)
18. I wouldn't count the military, the CIA or the Secret Service out, either.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 05:17 PM
Feb 2025

That is why I am pretty sure Trump, Musk, and the rest of the sociopathic assholes leading this coup will NOT succeed.

Who really can they trust?

It only takes one on the inside.

Vinca

(54,002 posts)
15. I hope Monday they'll be escorted into a courtroom to file their lawsuits against Dear Leader.
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 04:15 PM
Feb 2025

This won't stand.

pfitz59

(12,715 posts)
20. I'm sure there are already thousands of lawsuits pending
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 05:31 PM
Feb 2025

Fuck the SCrOTUS 'immunity' ruling.

Hotler

(13,747 posts)
22. Who escorted them out? Their fellow FBI coworkers, pardoned J6er's, the marshal service, MP's, rent-a-cops,
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 12:57 PM
Feb 2025

angry MAGA voters chosen by $100.00 a ticket raffle?

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