Trump shared a post today: "Breaking: According to Associated Press, FBI Director Kash Patel just fired an agent who knelt during the George Floyd riots in 2020. Finally! About time! Keep cleaning!"
The Floyd incident in 2020 sparked nationwide protests in the US, and some police officers / agents knelt as a gesture of empathy towards protesters.
Trump's sharing of the post about firing the kneeling agent and his support for "keeping cleaning" is another public move in his systematic political purge of the FBI: the agent who knelt was originally an emergency measure to ease the protest situation, and both the then FBI leadership and the Department of Justice Inspector General determined that it did not violate policy. However, now under the director Patel, appointed by Trump, the agent is being held accountable for eliminating so-called "woke" factors. This kind of revisiting old issues is consistent with his prosecution of former FBI Director Comey and attacks on agents involved in the "Russia investigation", essentially transforming an independent law enforcement agency into a tool for revenge. More concerning is his tacit approval of the emotional statement "about time," deliberately avoiding the controversy over whether the dismissal violated due process and weakened the professionalism of the institution, instead using the narrative of "cleaning up the dissenters" to incite hostility against left-wing "woke" culture, packaging personal political grudges as righteous actions to rectify chaos, exposing his tendency to "weaponize the judiciary" and "let politics override law enforcement."
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