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President Donald Trump On Monday he hit the FBI as a “corrupt” and praised his candidate for the FBI director Kash Patel, as the man to “enlarge” as he refused to answer the questions about whether his administration will eliminate office employees involved in JAN 6, 2021
He asked on Monday for Fox News If he believed that someone involved in the January 6 investigation should be fired, Trump did not respond directly. Instead, he criticized the actions of a cabinet who has repeatedly decreed as “corrupt” and insists that he has specifically pointed it out.
“I think the FBI was a very corrupt institution and I am a victim in the real sense,” Trump told Fox News while heading to journalists on Monday at the Oval Office. He also added that he believed that the office’s reputation has been “badly damaged, as the DOJ does.”
“But you know what? We need to have the application of the pristine law, beautiful and perfect,” said Trump.
Police officers of the North -American Capitol are left out of the Capitol building as Snow falls ahead of a joint congress session to certify the results of the presidential election of 2024 on January 6, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP through Getty Images)
“We need to bring the FBI reputation not even (again) to what he was, even better than ever,” said Trump. “But Kash has to be the one who does it,” he added. “Kash will straighten it.”
Trump’s statements are days after the attached Attorney General, Emil Bove, directed the acting director of the FBI to end with eight FBI employees and identify all the staff and former staff of the office assigned to the cases of January 6 and cases of Hamas for an internal review.
“I do not think the current leadership of the Department of Justice can trust these FBI employees to help faithfully implement the president’s agenda,” Bove wrote on the note, instructing that the eight employees will be fired on Monday, February 3. the 5:30 pm
The former Justice Department officials warned in interviews with Fox News Digital that these traits, While within Trump’s authorityIt could have a frightening effect on the rest of the office in the event that the administration moves to get rid of the staff involved in the research on January 6.
The Trump administration has not yet said if it will be taken against the individuals involved.
But new concerns were proposed after Bove sent a 12-page questionnaire to FBI staff across the country asking them to detail their participation in research on January 6, emphasizing that the department would begin a “process of Review to determine if there are additional actions of necessary staff. “
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The statements occur after Trump, in his second term, moved to emittedly broadcast a blanket forgiveness and a sentence for all 1,600 criminal defendants in the riots of the Capitol of January 6, whom he has repeatedly referred to as ” OBTAINS ”.
Since taking office, Trump has also fired the General Inspectors of 17 separate federal agencies, fired more than a dozen prosecutors involved in the investigations of special lawyers led by Jack Smith And he ordered more than half a dozen FBI officials to resign or withdraw from his charges or to be fired.
Combined, actions have caused new fears that the FBI could see the departure of decades of expertise from the office ranks, including well -versed employees in the detection and response to threats against terrorism, organized crime and Violent, drug trafficking and more.
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Others said that the January 6 investigation originally launched under the Trump administration, a detail that the President and some of his supporters cease to mention their frequent criticism against him.
“We are now in an extremely precarious moment in a very chaotic world,” said a former Justice Department official in an interview. “The Front of Terrorism is as important as I have seen it, never. So it does not make sense why we would take a meat gap to the agencies that defend this.”
Brooke Singman of Fox News Digital, David Spunt, Jake Gibson and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
