Jeffrey Veltri, the FBI official who briefed the nation on the latest investigation into an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, reportedly had his social media scrubbed of anti-Trump posts before being promoted to head the Miami field office. According to The Washington Times, Veltri was known for his anti-Trump views on Facebook.
After Sunday’s assassination attempt, former Fox News Associate Producer Kyle Becker posted on social media that a whistleblower informed the House Judiciary Committee in November that Veltri was “vocally and adamantly anti-Trump.”
BREAKING: The Trump would-be assas*in has been identified as Ryan Wesley Routh according to Fox News.
Routh was allegedly hiding in the bushes with an AK-47 with a scope, two backpacks, and a GoPro and was spotted by the Secret Service before he could take action.
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The whistleblower further alleged that FBI Director Christopher Wray, Deputy Director Paul Abbate and Executive Assistant Director Jennifer Moore were involved in directing Veltri to clean up his social media prior to his promotion:
“The home of President Donald Trump is located in the area of responsibility of the Miami Field Office. It was well known that Veltri was adamantly and vocally Anti-Trump,” said the disclosure, which The Washington Times has obtained. “Wray, Abbate and Moore wanted to ensure that Veltri appeared non-political, Veltri was ordered to remove all of his Facebook and Social media posts that were Anti-Trump.”
The whistleblower said the bureau leaders weren’t concerned about Mr. Veltri’s “bias against Trump” but whether “information related to Veltri’s political bias can be removed from the public domain.”
The whistleblower said Mr. Veltri, who served as acting deputy assistant director of the bureau’s security division until March, also oversaw efforts to suspend agents’ security clearances if they seemed to be a “right-wing radical.”
The whistleblower’s allegations are serious and deserve further investigation, said Chris Swecker, a lawyer and law enforcement professional who served as assistant director of the FBI’s criminal investigative division during the George W. Bush administration.
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