Jason Leopold uncovers messages from Trumpist FBI agents against the search of Mar-a-Lago and

[Bev54]

the investigation of Trump along with sympathies of 1/6 insurrectionists. It shows what we have all known for awhile but never had the proof. Under a FOIA request Leopold has found various emails etc that show outright hostility to the investigation of Trump.

~snip~

Rumors have long swirled that FBI agents at various field offices had been sympathetic to Trump even as the bureau launched investigations into his campaign and his business dealings. The claims were always attributed to anonymous sources. An email I obtained last year after a separate FOIA lawsuit related to the Jan. 6 Capital riots backs up those assertions.

“There’s no good way to say it,” read the email to deputy director Abbate. “So I’ll just be direct: from my first-hand and second-hand information from conversations since January 6th there is, at best, a sizable percentage of the employee population that felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol and said it was no different than the BLM protests of last summer," the person wrote a week after the riots.

Very interesting article

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-15/trump-documents-raid-at-mar-a-lago-sparked-protest-from-fbi-employees


Edited to take out tracking from the link

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. In Biden's 2nd term, President Biden needs to clean house on the FBI and DOJ.

Get rid of the Trump enablers that have tried to screw Joe and the Democratic Party/All Biden voters with their anti-democratic agenda. Maybe then, we can start to Make America Great Again.

[3Hotdogs]

2. Why wait?

[melm00se]

4. Trump talks about cleaning house

in the ranks various departments, is bad.

urging Biden to clean house in the FBI and DOJ, is good?

[Bev54]

8. Yes it is, with evidence of their prejudices that influence and interfere with their jobs.

They absolutely must be cleaned out both FBI and DOJ and any other agency. Trump just wants his toadies, he doesn't want competent people doing their jobs, much different scenario.

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. I guess I approve of anti-democratic purges.

Rather than the purge you know is coming if Trump gets re-elected (or using Republican states to screw with the vote to help him win). He's got a whole lot of retribution planned for the majority of Americans.

[Bev54]

16. It is not an anti-democratic purge though, it is a incompetence and insubordinate purge, fully acceptable.

[OAITW r.2.0]

18. They no longer believe the results of a honest election.

That was in 2020....this time, on steroids. They cannot win and they are busy writing legal challenges as we speak.

[hatrack]

20. The difference: Shitstain 2.0 means Boatload Of Corrupt Hacks . . .

As opposed to Biden dumping a bunch of Trumpers with federal badges and replacing them with non-ideologically envenomated professionals.

.

[SergeStorms]

35. The fools who think....

insurrection, theft and dispersal of top secret documents, assault and battery of law enforcement personnel, just to name a few crimes, is alright as long as it's their cult leader who's ordering it.

We can certainly do without those people in the highest law enforcement institutions in the land.

This false equivalency bullshit pisses me off, too! I don't remember a single BLM protest where law enforcement officers were treated as badly as the J6 officers were. Quite the opposite, the police gleefully attacked protesters.

Yeah, those FBI agents took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, and if they can't live up to that oath Walmart is always looking for night watchmen. Jerkoffs! 😡

[PSPS]

5. Start with Garland

[Bev54]

7. This is a Chris Wray problem and he should go.

[WhiteTara]

11. He has been complicit from the beginning

You're so right. He needs to be removed.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. How can they possibly obstruct justice?

The people the government expects to be honest brokers also sympathize with the NAZI sick fellow with whom they ideologically align.

Doubt Corporate McPravda will make the connection for the People to consider, but Charles McGonigal was heading the FBI's Russia counterespionage desk at the same time he was on Oleg Deripaska's payroll.

Both situations served to advance Trump at a cost to the Constitution and the nation.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. As always, you have it scoped out well, Kid!

[niyad]

22. And then we have Peter Strzok, previous head of the fbi counterintelligence

ruzzia section, fired (despite a recommendation of demotion and a 60 day suspension only) for daring to cruticizebTRAITOR**. Funny how that went.

[Attilatheblond]

29. And Peter Strzok exposed a big Putin spy ring years ago

so Putin had Trump try to ruin the stalwart counter intelligence FBI agent.

Strzok was obviously competent, and THAT is what got him removed. A purge under a second Trump administration would be a removal of those who do their jobs well.

A purge under Biden's administration would be a lawful exercise to weed out incompetence, insubordination, and possibly people who pose real threats to the nation.

[malaise]

6. Wow! Must Read

K % R

[slightlv]

12. We knew during the 2016 campaign

that there was an inordinate amount of *rump backers and influencers in the SDNY. They were intent on making all kinds of trouble for Hillary at the time. But this is just further indication to me as to just how far up and down the rot goes in the FBI. I'm with the person writing above me who said time to clean it out. I'd say "start now" but that would seem too political, on its face... even though I think it's totally warranted.

I worked for government (usually DoD) for nearly all my working life. We were free to have our own political opinions, but they were to be kept out of the workplace. Period. Every government office I ever worked in or visited had the same rules. Once again, we see where "rules" are for the little people... in "little departments." I don't think it's right that these agents were subjected to harassment and threats, but I gotta wonder how much they brought on themselves with their own mouths. Talking out of turn at the bar on Friday and Saturday nights, for example. Letting anger they felt raise their vocal level in a restaurant where who knows who's listening. It still doesn't justify terror threats... but these are THEIR people making threats towards them. Did they ever wonder exactly who they were aligning with? And if they were so stupid as to be taken in by *rump and his lies, I have to wonder about their judgement in law enforcement. Maybe that's not fair... but it's my opinion based on the usual Magat critical thinking levels.

There's a huge difference between changing personnel based only on political party or whether or not they idolize an individual, and cleaning house of troublemakers and those who create an unpleasant work environment for everyone around them. Everything *rump touches, dies. And it sounds like he put a few death knells on the FBI and justice departments. No wonder we're having trouble getting *rump into court! There are probably still people in high enough places that are totally working against us.

And anyone who can't see the difference between Jan 6 and the BLM protests is just being intentionally obtuse, AFAIC. These memos in the article are beyond the pale. If I ever tried to do something like that, I'd be called into a supervisors office and asked to explain and then told to keep my political leanings to myself. Doesn't sound like these people went to *enough* training classes, regardless of the one guy complaining about them.

Is it any wonder people have lost all faith in the law enforcement and judical systems in the country. With people like this, we're hard pressed to mount an effective push back, ourselves.

[llmart]

13. There were an awful lot of FBI who hated Hillary.

I know someone who works on a lower level in a field office in West Virginia and she told me plenty about what she would read or overhear or be told about through the office grapevine with regards to how they would use derogatory terms when speaking of Hillary. I knew even back when she was our candidate that this was happening. Then the Comey shit happened and some were surprised, but not me.

[DENVERPOPS]

14. I can only think

that we have no idea how deeply the Trump Humpers have infiltrated the ranks at all levels in the DOJ, FBI, Secret Service, National Guards across the nation, reservists, and even the entire military.....

During Jan 6 we saw numerous DC police and Capitol Police stand aside to the insurrectionists, and many others that just gave in, after half heartedly trying to push the insurrectionists back.........

And also it was the Secret Service who ordered Pence into their car to take him to some unknown destiny......

[Bev54]

17. I am sure some of them did support the insurrectionists and I remember watching it live and

thinking they were allowing them or helping them but after reading a lot of the messages that CREW got from FOIA it seems a lot of them were told to stand down as they were not going to be able to hold them off, so I am a little less pissed off.

[NanaCat]

27. I hate to break it to you

But these bigots and traitors wormed their way into the FBI and et al, long before TSF came along. J Edgar rarely investigated the right wing, no matter how violent they were.

And please don't disparage our military that way. If you'd served, you'd know that the military is actually more liberal than most of the alphabet soup federal LEO agencies. I'm not saying they're a bunch of Commies, but they are not nearly as conservative as people think. During TSF's term, the majority of the officer corps disapproved of him. This was something the general public hardly ever saw, because the tabloid media didn't cover it, but the polls that did exist were not in that monster's favour.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. Wow Nana, I sure hope you are right......

for the country's sake.................Of course all the military's votes might not even be counted due to the fact that the "NEW" RNC is going to cease allowing absentee voting and mail in votes if they have their way.......

I can only imagine that we will all realize just what these "New" Republicans have in store for us in November. I can only think, with their actions, that they think it is a Slam Dunk for some reason......I wonder what they know that we don't...........

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Great share! TY! ❤️

[republianmushroom]

19. Are we surprised.

DOJ delayed opening a criminal investigation into Trump for Jan 6. insurrection for more than a year

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017838884

[Bev54]

21. Simply nonsense they started the investigation in 2021 - The DOJ IG started an investigation of

Jeffrey Clark even before Garland was confirmed - That started on Jan 25, 2021. Garland was going after fake electors scheme and subpoenaed Clark's phone and emails in June 2021 and Giuliani and Powell's phones and devices in Sept 2021. He had to go through the courts for over a year and a half just to remove privileges of many of the players to open the way for Smith. It is so disingenuous to keep up this charade that Garland did nothing and even worse to continue propagating it.

[Ligyron]

23. I'd be curious to have some idea of how many rump humpers...

... changed their tune once the magnitude of the security breach was known?

For instance, I imagine only the most fervent of his Nazi ideologues would be cool with him sharing nuclear codes or info endangering our operatives in hostile nations.

I wonder if they thought it was clever of him to retain Classified and TS records after repeated attempts to secure them and even order others to hide them from the authorities legally seeking their return?

[Bev54]

24. I guess it will be dependent where they get their information from. In the emails it shows they

were watching Newsmax in their offices because even Fox was too left for them.

[Skittles]

25. just ask for them back? THEY DID

that repuke traitor DID NOT COMPLY

but of course, THEY ALL KNOW THAT

get these fucking MAGAts OUT OF THE FBI

[lark]

26. There is definitely a contingent of FBI and Justice Dept. folks that are magats.

The documents Bragg requested weren't delivered for many months, not until the eve of the trial - this was not some random mistake but a thought out ploy to help tsf and Russia. Remember the head of the NY FBI was convicted of being a Russian spy and taking over $200 million from the Russian that tsf sent all the "polling data" to. He's the one who restarted the Hillary emails and pushed hard for Comey to announce this to the world. I'm sure it wasn't only the guy at the top of NY FBI but he also had cohorts who actively pushed for no investigation.

Of course, Garland listened to the Russia lovers and didn't start an investigation on time and protect America,.

[Bev54]

28. Nonsense, first of all we don't know why SDNY didn't send the documents to the DA when he

requested them and it could simply be that there were other investigations ongoing at the time or it could be they are protecting Barr and his interference in prosecutions or a myriad of other reasons. What is clear is this decision would not likely go to Garland and SDNY seems to celebrate their independence. Let's wait until the hearing on Mar 25th when this will be discussed in court.

Now to your disparaging remarks on Garland, the investigation started even before Garland was appointed or confirmed. Subpoenas for stop the steal and fake electors scheme started before 1/6 committee was formed and several court cases over privilege of one sort or another wound their way through the courts at a time when covid was still ongoing and there was a backlog. Your revisionist history is not helpful.

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

30. Right Wing Hypocrites

BLM didn’t storm the capitol and were not involved in a coup. These FBI agents need to take a good long look into their minds and souls and get straight.

[Bev54]

32. They need to look into their souls elsewhere, other than in the FBI offices. Hopefully they are already gone.

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

37. They Aren't Going Anywhere

And now the Orange pos promises a bloodbath if he loses. Where’s Seal Team 6??? And he insinuated he knows of even worse coming. What could that mean? Something Putin will do?

[spanone]

31. I imagine all the the agents assigned to trmp are magats or they're gone.

[Bev54]

33. We would hope so, but for the fact that many of their phones and devices were wiped clean, we

may never know who they are. It was kind of telling when Biden refused the SS agents assigned to him and chose his own agents.

[dchill]

34. "There's no good way to say it,"...

Well, they at least got THAT right.