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Text messages reveal the FBI director ordered agents to engage with a tiny-reach social media troll account that insulted him. An aide warned the effort "would look bad" on the bureau.
Text messages show FBI Director Kash Patel instructed agents to engage with a social media account that insulted him—an account with 400 followers, essentially no reach. An aide warned him the effort "would look bad" for the bureau. Patel ordered it anyway.
This is a director using the FBI's resources to respond to personal insults online. The scale is comically small—400 followers—which makes the decision to deploy federal agents even stranger. The aide's warning suggests internal awareness that this crossed a line. What this illustrates is a leadership pattern where personal grievance drives agency action, not institutional mission.
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