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In the FBIs Backyard, Trump Snubs the Bureau
Amidst a crescendo of right-wing anger aimed at Robert Mueller and the FBI over the Russia inquiry, President Donald Trump looked past the bureau and held a love fest for the cops it trains at Quantico.
It was Trump’s first speech as president on FBI territory. Only he didn’t direct it at FBI agents, analysts or trainees—but instead at the police officers from around the country and the world whom the bureau instructs for at its National Academy. With Trump’s recent and intensifying criticism of the FBI, which accelerated just before his speech, those officers were a safer venue for applause and adulation.
“Local police cannot investigate the allegations of obstruction of justice by the president, or the Russia collusion, or his suspicious family-business dealings, or be able to indict senior members of his staff, as seen by the Mueller investigation,” noted Ali Soufan, a retired FBI counterterrorism special agent.
Despite the locale and an introduction by his hand-picked FBI director, Chris Wray, Trump barely mentioned the FBI at all. He twice referred to the bureau, saying he had “so many friends in the FBI” and closing with a “thank you to the FBI,” but both references were wrapped in broader praise of law enforcement generally.
It was Trump’s first speech as president on FBI territory. Only he didn’t direct it at FBI agents, analysts or trainees—but instead at the police officers from around the country and the world whom the bureau instructs for at its National Academy. With Trump’s recent and intensifying criticism of the FBI, which accelerated just before his speech, those officers were a safer venue for applause and adulation.
“Local police cannot investigate the allegations of obstruction of justice by the president, or the Russia collusion, or his suspicious family-business dealings, or be able to indict senior members of his staff, as seen by the Mueller investigation,” noted Ali Soufan, a retired FBI counterterrorism special agent.
Despite the locale and an introduction by his hand-picked FBI director, Chris Wray, Trump barely mentioned the FBI at all. He twice referred to the bureau, saying he had “so many friends in the FBI” and closing with a “thank you to the FBI,” but both references were wrapped in broader praise of law enforcement generally.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/in-the-fbis-backyard-trump-snubs-the-bureau
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