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Top FBI official attacks Trump online, could now face federal charges

• World Net Daily

An FBI agent in the nation's capital may have violated the law after promoting anti-Trump content on social media, the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) watchdog told Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley Wednesday.

The DOJ's watchdog referred FBI special agent Timothy Thibault's "potential violations of the Hatch Act" to The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) after Grassley demanded a probe in May.

Passed in 1939, The Hatch Act "limits certain political activities of federal employees, as well as some state, D.C., and local government employees who work in connection with federally funded programs," according to the OSC.

A top FBI official in Washington, D.C., may have broken the law for what one Republican senator argues are "partisan posts" criticizing former President Donald Trump and former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's watchdog (DOJ).


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