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BumRushDaShow

(169,337 posts)
Tue Mar 24, 2026, 07:17 PM 14 hrs ago

Democrat Torches Trump for Leaving America Vulnerable to Terrorism: 'Put a 22-Year-Old in Charge!'

Source: MEDIAite

Mar 24th, 2026, 12:52 pm


Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) warned the country on Tuesday that the Trump administration had left Americans less protected against terror attacks by firing veteran national security officials amid a purge of perceived anti-Trump government employees.

Whitehouse made the remarks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which two fired FBI agents testified about being removed from their jobs for working on investigations into the 2020 presidential election and finding no concrete evidence of voter fraud.

“I’ll close by talking about what this hearing should be about. Those counterintelligence agents Kash Patel fired aren’t the only career law enforcement officials forced out by this administration. Nor are they the only ones purged because they were assigned to investigate President Trump’s crimes,” Whitehouse began, adding:

Here’s what has happened at the FBI since President Trump took office. The FBI has lost at least 300 agents working on national security matters, transferred agents out of the domestic terrorism operations section, disbanded the foreign influence task force, and instructed joint terrorism task forces to work on immigration cases.

At DOJ, more than 6,000 employees have left. The National Security Division has lost up to one-third of its leadership, half the line prosecutors in the counterterrorism section, and half the workforce in the counterintelligence section. Attorney General Bondi disbanded DOJ’s task force Klepto Capture, kleptocracy team, and kleptocracy asset recovery initiative.

It is the same story throughout the administration, where conspiracy theories and obsessions with revenge are decimating the career law enforcement who protect us against national security threats.


Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/democrat-torches-trump-for-leaving-america-vulnerable-to-terrorism-put-a-22-year-old-in-charge/
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Democrat Torches Trump for Leaving America Vulnerable to Terrorism: 'Put a 22-Year-Old in Charge!' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago OP
We were told this from the beginning padfun 14 hrs ago #1
There will be a severe price to pay. Martin Eden 2 hrs ago #2

Martin Eden

(15,585 posts)
2. There will be a severe price to pay.
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 07:09 AM
2 hrs ago

And it won't be by this criminal regime.

It will be by innocent victims of terrorism left unprotected, after this criminal regime launched an illegal war against a state sponsor of terrorism.

It will be by American taxpayers and citizens who need government services decimated by this kleptocratic warmongering regime draining our nation's treasury.

In just over 14 months into a 48 month term, this regime has caused enough damage and committed enough crimes to keep our entire Justice Dept busy for years to hold them to account -- a Justice Dept decimated by the firings and resignations of capable public servants, then staffed with sycophants loyal not to the rule of law, but to the regime.

How much more destruction, more draining of our treasury, more crimes in the next 34 months, will be perpetrated by this regime?

Will we even have a Constitutional democracy remaining to vote them out of office and hold them accountable?

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