The Purge: FBI Edition

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Evan Perez, Josh Campbell, and Hannah Rabinowitz for CNN ("Trump DOJ demands list of thousands of FBI agents, others who worked on Jan. 6 and Trump investigations for possible firing") add: The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, demanding the names of those who worked on January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations for potential removal - a move that could affect thousands.
46% : " The mass firings could imperil the nomination of Kash Patel, whom Trump wants to run the FBI in his administration.
45% : Shortly after taking office, Trump pardoned about 1,500 of the rioters and commuted others' sentences.
43% : "All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution," Patel told lawmakers.
28% : " Pam Bondi, Trump's nominee to run the Justice Department, had likewise assured senators during her own hearing that government personnel would not be subject to political retaliation for doing their job.
27% : Trump has long fumed about that investigation, which involved a raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate that turned up hundreds of classified documents he had taken after he left the White House four years ago.
24% : Current and former officials I spoke with had expected Trump to exact retribution for what he sees as unjust and even illegal efforts by the FBI and the Justice Department to investigate his conduct.
22% : "The FBI -- including the Bureau's prior leadership -- actively participated in what President Trump appropriately described as 'a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated on the American people over the last four years' with respect to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," Bove said.
20% : The FBI Agents Association, a nonprofit organization that is not part of the U.S. government, said in a statement that the reports of Trump's planned purge are "outrageous" and "fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents.
16% : Trump has falsely accused agents of abuse in their court-ordered search of his Mar-a-Lago home and of their treatment of Capitol rioters.

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