MSNBC seems mad, y'all.
According to their reporting, the FBI Director Kash Patel fired an agent recently for displaying a pride flag on their desk.
FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The trainee, who previously worked as an FBI support specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter — dated Oct. 1 and signed by Patel — claiming he had displayed an improper 'political' message in the workplace during his assignment in California under President Joe Biden, according to a copy of the letter shared with MSNBC.
FBI agents are supposed to be neutral patriots at work. Signaling their political support for a certain faction of gay race communism, mainly the gay part, was a bridge too far.
Here's a supposed excerpt from Kash's letter to the agent:
After reviewing the facts and circumstances and considering your probationary status, I have determined that you exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in your work area during your previous assignment in the Los Angeles Field Office.
And the reaction in the agency is, apparently, to make sure that they are all following the letter of the law now, since the "pride" days are over in the FBI.
The agent trainee, who had most recently been assigned to the FBI Academy in Quantico, won an Attorney General's Award in 2022 in recognition of his work, according to a Justice Department news release.
News of the trainee's firing spurred some agents in the FBI's Washington field office to scour their work stations and social media accounts for signs or comments — anything that could be viewed as offensive to Trump, his top appointees and MAGA supporters, according to one person familiar with the reaction within the government.
MSNBC, purporting to be objective and neutral here, frames the story as if Trump and Patel are the ideological/authoritarian ones. In reality, they are the ones removing ideology from the federal police force.
DOJ Pride, an LGBTQ employee resource group at the Department of Justice, shut down in late January, less than 10 days after Trump signed an executive order seeking to root out all diversity, equity and inclusion measures from the federal government.
Translation: FBI agents display icons of the leftwing faith, as was the norm under Merrick Garland, Chris Wray, and James Comey.
It's not totally shocking that, given the direction of the FBI under previous leadership, that they would be comfortable waving the gay flag and kneeling at Floyd riots.
But there's a new sheriff in town.
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