Look, I have written about this before — when White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had to look reporters in the eye and defend President Donald Trump’s AI post about “medbeds,” which he appeared to think were real — but it’s worth discussing again: if you are part of the Trump administration, at some point, you are going to be made to look stupid on camera.
On Thursday, it was FBI National Security Operations Director Michael Glasheen’s turn.
See, unfortunately for Glasheen, under the Trump administration, he’s not allowed to be like former Trump-appointed FBI Director Christopher Wray, who stated in 2020, while testifying to Congress, that Antifa is “not a group or an organization,” but “a movement or an ideology,” which, in all honesty, it’s barely even that since it’s virtually impossible to track how many people identify as advocates for the so-called movement.
Instead, Glasheen has to toe the line established by the president, who, in September, vowed to label it a “major terrorist organization” because our commander-in-boat-batteries-and-shark-attacks doesn’t actually know how anything works. But Trump’s latest obsession with figments of his imagination led to his administration having to follow suit, even going so far as to claim to have in custody the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa, neither of whom has been identified publicly to date, probably because, much like the organization, these people don’t exist.
This brings us back to Glasheen, who was challenged by House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie Thompson to describe “organizations that pose, on the domestic side,” the number one threat to the U.S. Glasheen did his job and said it was Antifa. Thompson noted that Glasheen was parroting Trump’s narrative, but clarified that he wanted to know, “What does the FBI say?”
And that’s when Glasheen began to drown while flailing to tread in the waters of his MAGA messiah’s bullshit.
“We share the same view. When you look at the data right now, you look at the domestic terrorist threat that we’re facing right now, what I see from my position is that’s the most immediate violent threat that we’re facing on the domestic side,” Glasheen said.
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