{"id":35714,"date":"2025-03-11T14:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/fears-mount-over-kash-patels-use-of-fbi-to-persecute-leftwing-protest-groups\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T14:31:08","slug":"fears-mount-over-kash-patels-use-of-fbi-to-persecute-leftwing-protest-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/fears-mount-over-kash-patels-use-of-fbi-to-persecute-leftwing-protest-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears mount over Kash Patel\u2019s use of FBI to persecute leftwing protest groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concern over crackdown on anti-facists and Black Lives Matter movement as Trump loyalist takes control of agency<\/p>\n<p>Fears are mounting that Kash Patel, an outspoken Maga disciple and newly appointed director of the FBI, will make good on past comments about crackdowns on anti-fascists and Black Lives Matter protesters.<\/p>\n<p>For years, president Donald Trump has also called on designating \u201cAntifa\u201d or more broadly, all anti-fascist activists \u2013 as an official domestic terrorist organization. While that never materialized into official policy, Trump\u2019s top national security leaders at the FBI, CIA and the Pentagon are all hardcore loyalists intent on carrying out his political agenda.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/11\/kash-patel-fbi-antifa-black-lives-matter-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concern over crackdown on anti-facists and Black Lives Matter movement as Trump loyalist takes control of agency Fears are mounting that Kash Patel, an outspoken Maga disciple and newly appointed director of the FBI, will make good on past comments about crackdowns on anti-fascists and Black Lives Matter protesters. For years, president Donald Trump has &#8230; <a title=\"Fears mount over Kash Patel\u2019s use of FBI to persecute leftwing protest groups\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/fears-mount-over-kash-patels-use-of-fbi-to-persecute-leftwing-protest-groups\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fears mount over Kash Patel\u2019s use of FBI to persecute leftwing protest groups\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}