The FBI is rotten to its core.
Bad actors hijacked the bureau for their left-wing agenda.
And Kash Patel launched one Deep State purge that had the media panicking.
FBI Director clears out agents who weaponized bureau against Trump
FBI Director Kash Patel cleaned house at the bureau after years of political weaponization against President Trump.
Senior field office leaders in Atlanta and New Orleans were removed along with the acting assistant director overseeing the New York field office.
As many as six agents in Miami got the boot because they participated in the raid on Mar-a-Lago where the FBI searched Trump's home looking for allegedly classified documents.
Other agents pushed out were tied to the Biden-era probe into Donald Trump’s efforts to contest the 2020 Election.
The Deep State's favorite journalist Ken Dilanian broke the story for MS NOW alongside Carol Leonnig.
Dilanian earned the nickname "Fusion Ken" during the Russia collusion hoax for his role peddling Fusion GPS talking points about the discredited Steele dossier.
He was caught working hand-in-glove with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson to spread lies about Trump's supposed collusion with Russia.
When the FBI needed a friendly outlet to leak complaints about Patel's housecleaning, Dilanian was the obvious choice.
The timing wasn't coincidental.
These rogue agents ran crying to their media allies just hours after former special counsel Jack Smith testified on Capitol Hill defending his handling of the bogus Trump investigations.
Patel's broader reforms refocus FBI on real threats
The latest removals are part of sweeping reforms Patel launched to end the bureau's weaponization and refocus agents on actual threats.
Patel reassigned roughly 3,250 FBI agents out of the 13,000-agent workforce to immigration enforcement.
That's a quarter of the entire FBI now working to secure the border and remove criminal illegal aliens.
The Atlanta field office alone assigned 67 agents to work on immigration enforcement full time, seven days a week.
In Los Angeles, the FBI created nine squads dedicated entirely to enforcement and removal operations.
Democrats like Senator Cory Booker attacked Patel for diverting agents from other missions.
But here's what they ignore.
Biden's open borders flooded America with criminal cartels, human traffickers, and gang members who terrorize communities.
The FBI has also fired agents for political activism that violated bureau standards.
Patel removed a dozen agents who took a knee during 2020 racial justice protests after George Floyd's death.
One agent trainee was fired for displaying a Pride flag at his workstation in violation of FBI neutrality policies.
Pattern of FBI politicization goes back decades
This isn't the first time an FBI director faced resistance while trying to reform a politicized bureau.
Back in the 1970s under President Richard Nixon, FBI Director L. Patrick Gray tried cleaning up the agency after J. Edgar Hoover's decades-long reign.
Gray faced massive resistance from career bureaucrats who'd grown comfortable operating as their own political fiefdom.
The difference this time is Trump and Patel have the mandate and the backbone to see it through.
The FBI Agents Association warned that firing agents without evidence of misconduct violates longstanding norms.
Where was their concern about norms when agents were leaking to the media, doctoring FISA applications, and coordinating with Democrat operatives?
Patel also moved 1,500 FBI personnel out of Washington headquarters and redeployed them to field offices around the country.
The FBI approved 667 early retirement requests as agents uncomfortable with the new mission decided to leave.
Trump won a mandate to drain the swamp and restore integrity to federal law enforcement.
Patel is delivering on that promise by removing the bad actors who corrupted the FBI's mission.
The media panic and lawsuits prove he's hitting the right targets.
Every agent who participated in the political persecution of Trump and his supporters should be worried about their future at the bureau.
Because accountability is finally coming to the Deep State.
Sources:
- David Gilmour, "FBI Director Kash Patel Purges Agents Tied to Past Trump Probes, MS NOW Reports," Mediaite, January 23, 2026.
- Ken Dilanian, "FBI knew of possible Trump-Russia collusion, according to Glenn Simpson's Senate testimony," NBC News, January 10, 2018.
- "Fusion GPS Scandal Implicates Media In Possible Pay-To-Publish Scheme," The Federalist, December 7, 2017.
- "History is repeating itself at the FBI as agents resist a director's political agenda," The Conversation, January 2026.
- Ryan J. Reilly and David Rohde, "Former top FBI officials sue, say Kash Patel fired them to stay in Trump's good graces," NBC News, September 10, 2025.
- Ken Dilanian and Ryan J. Reilly, "FBI field offices ordered to shift agents to immigration crackdown," NBC News, May 15, 2025.
- "Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently assigned to immigration enforcement," The Washington Post, October 8, 2025.
