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FBI’s Miami field office chief who spoke on second assassination attempt ‘a notorious Trump hater’

September 16, 2024 | | Print Article

The head of the FBI’s Miami Field Office was part of a press briefing detailing what was known about the assassination attempt on former President Trump in Florida.

Jeffrey Veltri took the podium on Sunday to address the latest on the second failed attempt on Trump’s life and to speak of the FBI investigation into the incident that unfolded at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach.

But it was soon noted on social media that Veltri was not a fan of Trump.

In a 2023 article by Kerry Picket for the Washington Times, Veltri’s background became clearer thanks to a whistleblower’s report to Congress.

“In a disclosure to the House Judiciary Committee, the whistleblower said Jeffrey Veltri was promoted earlier this year to become the special agent in charge of the Miami office. The whistleblower called Mr. Veltri ‘adamantly and vocally anti-Trump’ and said FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, Deputy Director Paul Abbate, and Executive Assistant Director Jennifer Moore were involved in directing Mr. Veltri to cleanse his social media,” the report read.

The article continued:

“The home of President Donald Trump is located in the area of responsibility of the Miami Field Office. It was well known that Veltri was adamantly and vocally Anti-Trump,” said the disclosure, which The Washington Times has obtained. “Wray, Abbate and Moore wanted to ensure that Veltri appeared non-political, Veltri was ordered to remove all of his Facebook and Social media posts that were Anti-Trump.”

The whistleblower said the bureau leaders weren’t concerned about Mr. Veltri’s “bias against Trump” but whether “information related to Veltri’s political bias can be removed from the public domain.”

The whistleblower said Mr. Veltri, who served as acting deputy assistant director of the bureau’s security division until March, also oversaw efforts to suspend agents’ security clearances if they seemed to be a “right-wing radical.”

Social media users erupted over the latest bias against the former president.

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