Weaponized FBI Targeting MAGA Trump Supporters Ahead of Election

- June 4, 2026
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged Wednesday that he threatened to “kick ass” during a heated confrontation last year, while firmly denying reports that he threatened to punch the now-acting Director of National Intelligence “in the face.”

The unusual exchange emerged during a Senate Finance Committee hearing, where Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) pressed Bessent about reports surrounding a confrontation between the two Trump administration officials during the summer of 2025.

According to Bessent, one key detail in the widely circulated account was inaccurate.

While he denied threatening.

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ANALYSIS – As part of Joe Biden and the Democrat Party’s ongoing political plan to demonize and criminalize conservative Republicans, the now weaponized FBI is secretly targeting supporters of former President Donald Trump, ostensibly to prevent violence ahead of the 2024 election.

“Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country,” Joe Biden posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, last September, explicitly singling out the former president.

This can only end badly.

One senior intelligence official who works at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) told Newsweek that Biden’s heated rhetoric could push his opponents into taking more extreme action — since they see that from the president on down, the entire system is arrayed against them.

While claiming to be pursuing ‘domestic terrorism’ and ‘anti-government extremism’ without reference to political affiliations or parties, classified data obtained by Newsweek shows that “the vast majority of its [FBI’s] current “anti-government” investigations are of Trump supporters.”

“The FBI is in an almost impossible position,” says a current FBI official, who requested anonymity to discuss highly sensitive internal matters. The official said that the FBI is intent on stopping domestic terrorism and any repeat of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. But the Bureau must also preserve the Constitutional right of all Americans to campaign, speak freely, and protest the government. By focusing on former president Trump and his MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters, the official said, the Bureau runs the risk of provoking the very anti-government activists that the terrorism agencies hope to counter.

“Especially at a time when the White House is facing Congressional Republican opposition claiming that the Biden administration has ‘weaponized’ the Bureau against the right wing, it has to tread very carefully,” says the official.

Newsweek notes the question I have raised many times before: whether ‘terrorism’ is the best way to describe the problem or if the counterterrorism methods developed over the past decade in response to Islamist terror groups are the best solutions for a purely domestic political problem.

I have noted before that there are a lot of now unemployed, or underemployed, counterterrorism folks, who are desperately trying to make their trade relevant again, by focusing their very niche tactics on fellow Americans instead of foreign terrorists.

But that should be happening.

“The current political environment is not something that the FBI is necessarily responsible for, nor should it be,” says Brian Michael Jenkins, one of the world’s leading terrorism experts and senior adviser to the president of the RAND Corporation.

Still, that is exactly what the FBI did when after Jan 6, 2021, it changed its definition of AGAAVE (“anti-government, anti-authority violent extremism”) from “furtherance of ideological agendas” to “furtherance of political and/or social agendas.”

Now, for the first time, such groups were being labeled because of their politics.

Then, in October 2022 the Bureau quietly created a new subcategory—”AGAAVE-Other”— new group consisting of those who were a threat but do not fit into its standard threat groups.

The new classification, first reported by Newsweek, is defined as “domestic violent extremists who cite anti-government or anti-authority motivations for violence or criminal activity not otherwise defined, such as individuals motivated by a desire to commit violence against those with a real or perceived association with a specific political party or faction of a specific political party.”

That’s a lot of ‘bureaucratese’ to hide the truth.

Government insiders acknowledged to Newsweek that although they are not named specifically, the ‘AGAAVE-Other’ category applies to political violence associated with MAGA Trump supporters.

with MAGA Trump supporters.

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12 Comments
    Margaret

    Democrats just keep it coming to overwhelm the public and create doubt and apathy. There is nothing good left of the Democrat party – not one will stand up against the Biden regime connected with Obama and The World Financial Order that want total control of America.

    evelyn

    I support Pres Trump, I support what MAGA is about. So do my beliefs go against the Constitution? Nope. I do not like biden and what he is doing to the USA, and I will vote against him and everyone that agrees with him. Is that wrong? Nope. Go after the real criminals, rapist, murderers, thieves, etc. If someone commits a crime go after them, do not make up crimes to condemn them.

      Diane

      I would like to know when the Democrat Party became the party of hate and violence they always accusing the Republicans of spreading violence it is not Republicans out there committing violence it’s the Democrats the woke remember what was it 2021 when when America was being tore apart by Black Life Matters and Antifa which I do not like calling them that the way I look at it they are Democrats paid mask cowards they cover their faces because they’re scared of their mamas that’s why I call him cowards but anyway they were the ones out there committing violence not Republicans all there might have been a few Republicans out there for the cause but they took the death of a man to tear American apart and the Democrats had them on the back and let him get away with it they kill people they tried to burn down a church they burned down a police department people lost a livelihoods so why aren’t they in jail the way I look at it those weeks of hell they were committing treason against America and they should all be prosecuted and put in jail and I would also like to know why New York is Pagan black life matters money it should be the other way around black lives matters should be paying the people that they destroyed businesses because of them they lost their livelihoods but I would like to know are the FBI going to use that program AGAAVE-other they said they set it up to watch Mega Trump supporters that’s a bunch of BS it is not Trump supporters out there committing violence it’s the Democrats are they going to play that same program against the Democrat Mega supporters that’s a good name for if they can call Trump supporters Mega we can or maybe maybe that’s a bad idea let’s change that to Democrat corrupt supporters I think that sounds better is the FBI going to play that same program to Democrat supporters like be BLM and their paid mask cowards I hope because I think the FBI has done enough to divide America by helping Nancy Pelosi plan and organize the Insurgent on January 6th will they apply the same standards to their self and Nancy Pelosi I guess time we’ll tell the truth the truth always has a way of being exposed sooner or later God bless America and let’s make America great again

    Steve Rogers

    I’ve got my first check for a total of thirteen thousand US dollars. I am so energized, this is whenever I first really acquired something. I will work much harder now and I can hardly hang tight for the following week’s installment. Go to the Home tab for more detail. I highly recommend everyone to apply.. w­w­w.P­a­y­a­t­h­o­m­e­7.c­o­m

      Cajun

      Hey Steve Rogers, expect a letter from the IRS. They don’t email and they don’t call. Have fun.

        GomeznSA

        Cajun – seems to me that he is making enough money to pay off our portion of the national debt. The question is whether he will do so or just keep running his scam.

    Cajun

    Weaponized FBI? FYI, the FBI has ALWAYS had weapons! Now they are POLITICIZED along socialist Democrat lines.

    Rosie46

    Since Pelosi refused the National Guard request by Trump, she should be watched. Since Antifa and BLM were instigating, the should be watched. Since the FBI had informants and agents on the ground in the crowd instigating the attack on the capital, they should be watched. An objective investigation, not a witch hunt, would have exposed the truth, so Biden can go back to sniffing children and touching women knowing the extremists ate in his camp and not in Trump’s camp.

    Don

    Why don’t they go after ANTIFI or Black Lives Matter. ANTIFI has already been class as a domestic terrorist group. I personally think it’s time to take politics out of law enforcement.

    John Hovis

    We see a lot of bad PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES dont need to be afraid. God said Wo unto my little ones.

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