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The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as Trump threatened more terminations.
FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The trainee, who previously worked as an FBI support specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter — dated Oct. 1 and signed by Patel — claiming he had displayed an improper “political” message in the workplace during his assignment in California under President Joe Biden, according to a copy of the letter shared with MSNBC.
The letter cited President Donald Trump’s Article II powers under the Constitution to dismiss federal agency career personnel, a justification used in several recent firings at the Department of Justice and FBI. The terminations are currently being challenged in several lawsuits.
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Don’t know that laws matter anymore but firing someone based on sexual orientation is illegal.
Since when has that stopped to the Trump administration from doing anything?
True. Okay SCROTUS, time to lick boots again.
You don’t need to be gay to fly a rainbow flag
Another lawsuit would be appropriate.
The letter cited President Donald Trump’s Article II powers under the Constitution to dismiss federal agency career personnel, a justification used in several recent firings at the Department of Justice and FBI.
Governing by presidential decree is as close as you can get to absolute monarchy - or, let’s called it as it is, fascist tyranny - in this country. And they already started dismantling the last remaining obstacles. As he himself said “if you vote for me you’ll never have to vote again”.
The terminations are currently being challenged in several lawsuits.
Good.
This shit is horrible, but it gets worse. People are dying from this regime.
So when does Kash’s skin tone become an inappropriate political display?
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“christian” every single one of these domestic terrorists espouses the COMPLETE opposite of Jesus’s teachings.
they know and dont care.
As has been established, it truly IS the hardest part.
Imagine being fired by a deer forever caught in headlights.
Kash Patel felt threatened because the FBI trainee was more qualified to run things.
Wrongful termination, much, Mr. Patel?
it’s political to acknowledge that ppl different than you exist to republicans
Fascists are the weakest form of snowflake.
Soooo much winning everywhere!
While I think this government is loaded with pedophile scum and they should all be shot out of a canon into the sun, I don’t think this is a first amendment rights violation.
If the person in question had been fired for hanging a pride flag in his apartment window, that would be a violation of his first amendment rights. However putting it on his desk in a federal office building is different.
The federal government shouldn’t be seen as endorsing any particular view. Unfortunately, if some homophobic dickhead needs to talk to an agent, they shouldn’t be concerned about whether the agent will treat them differently.
The scum running the FBI likely wouldn’t care if someone was displaying a Nazi flag on their desk, but they’d probably be forced to respond.
Or maybe not.
Acknowledging people exist isn’t political. Regressives act like it is, but it isn’t.
A pride flag on a desk is like having pictures of your kids on your desk.
A pride flag on your desk, during the Biden administration, ages ago, apparently is, for Mr. Patel.
Acknowledging people exist isn’t political.
It would be much a nicer world to live in if that was true.
EVERYTHING is political, and we live in a world where fascists make existence a political issue.
