Related fact!! Also more recently 1,000 FBI agents were too busy going through the EPSTEIN files to redact the name of “you know who" instead of ....
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DOGE wunderkind Thomas Fugate III, a 22 year old Trump intern who was appointed to lead counter terrorism and threat prevention at DHS, gutted the department firing 75% of the staff. According to Fugate, “domestic terror” and “domestic born shooters” weren’t the problem and that the department needed to “focus on illegals.”
This department coordinates cross-agencies tips, and helps power online monitoring programs for proactively catching things like mass shootings before they happen.
But, given it’s got basically no staff, I imagine they are drowning in backlog, and too busy focused on the President’s made up agenda, and so didn’t catch the fact that the shooter was blatantly posting about his planned crimes online.
This is why we hire qualified people for offices; not partisan loyalists.
Trump’s loyalty pledge literally cost children their lives. —Adam Cochran