Jeffrey Veltri, head of the FBI’s Miami office and the lead agent probing the second attempt to assassinate Donald Trump, was ordered to take down anti-Trump social media posts. The FBI counters that allegations about Veltri’s political bias and social media posts are “demonstrably false,” so based on experience they are probably true.
In July, the FBI failed to prevent the first attempt to kill Trump, which nearly succeeded. Shortly afterward, FBI director Christopher Wray, never an FBI agent, and accompanied by no ballistics expert, contended that Trump might have been hit by “shrapnel.” That hardly inspired confidence in the FBI investigation, and the people have other grounds to be skeptical.
In the murder cases of DNC staffer Seth Rich and DHS whistleblower Philip Haney, the FBI announced no suspects and mounted no manhunts. In both cases the FBI grabbed the victims’ devices and materials but never announced what they contained. If anybody thought that was withholding evidence it would be hard to blame them. The bureau failed to prevent the terrorist attack on 9/11, at Fort Hood (2009), the Boston Marathon (2013), San Bernardino (2015) and Orlando in 2016, all with massive loss of life, and the FBI played no role in the takedown of the terrorists.
In 2016, the FBI launched covert operations Midyear Exam and Crossfire Hurricane against candidate and President Trump. In 2017, the FBI failed to prevent the attack on congressional Republicans by “strongly anti-Trump” James Hodgkinson, in which Steve Scalise was nearly killed.
In 2022 the FBI mounted an armed raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. In 2023, the FBI made Jeffrey Veltri head of the Miami field office. In 2024, the bureau failed to prevent known criminal Ryan Routh from traveling thousands of miles and setting up a sniper’s nest at the Palm Beach golf course where the former president was playing. This is not the man, or the agency, to investigate the second attempt to assassinate Donald Trump. By now it should be clear who has the strongest motive to kill him.
