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A questionable move.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
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 When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas. “Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space. His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million budget. The White House appointed Fugate, a former Trump campaign worker who interned at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, to a Homeland Security VP. Fugate’s appointment is the latest shock for an office that has been decimated since President Donald Trump returned to the White House and began remaking national security to give it a laser focus on immigration.
 
Typically, a candidate that green wouldn’t have gotten an interview for a junior position, much less be hired to run operations.  “Maybe he’s a wunderkind, or maybe he’s Doogie Howser" said one counterterrorism agent, clearly despondent about his new boss. In the past seven weeks, at least five high-profile targeted attacks have unfolded across the U.S., including a car bombing in California and the gunning down of two Israeli Embassy aides in Washington. Against this backdrop, current and former national security officials say, the Trump administration’s decision to shift counterterrorism resources to immigration and leave the violence-prevention portfolio to inexperienced appointees is “reckless.” “We’re entering very dangerous territory,” one longtime U.S. counterterrorism official said.

 ProPublica sent DHS a detailed list of questions about Fugate’s position, his lack of national security experience and the future of the department’s prevention work. A senior agency official replied with a statement saying only that Fugate’s duties were added to his role as an aide in an Immigration & Border Security office. ProPublica sought an interview with Fugate through DHS and the White House, but he was unavailable, because he was moving out of his parent's house.
A former Homeland Security official said the Fugate appointment “means that the department founded to prevent terrorism in the United States no longer prioritizes preventing terrorism in the United States.”

 
 

Team Trump is at the bottom of the barrel on choosing staff.

Get ready for turnovers.. I am sure folks will be getting fired soon

The Terrorist Prevention guy looks like a terrorist...

I am out.. See Y'all

Punch » 05 Jun 2025, 2:49 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 2:49 am

A questionable move.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
(Full article at above link)

 When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas. “Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space. His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million budget. The White House appointed Fugate, a former Trump campaign worker who interned at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, to a Homeland Security VP. Fugate’s appointment is the latest shock for an office that has been decimated since President Donald Trump returned to the White House and began remaking national security to give it a laser focus on immigration.
 
Typically, a candidate that green wouldn’t have gotten an interview for a junior position, much less be hired to run operations.  “Maybe he’s a wunderkind, or maybe he’s Doogie Howser" said one counterterrorism agent, clearly despondent about his new boss. In the past seven weeks, at least five high-profile targeted attacks have unfolded across the U.S., including a car bombing in California and the gunning down of two Israeli Embassy aides in Washington. Against this backdrop, current and former national security officials say, the Trump administration’s decision to shift counterterrorism resources to immigration and leave the violence-prevention portfolio to inexperienced appointees is “reckless.” “We’re entering very dangerous territory,” one longtime U.S. counterterrorism official said.

 ProPublica sent DHS a detailed list of questions about Fugate’s position, his lack of national security experience and the future of the department’s prevention work. A senior agency official replied with a statement saying only that Fugate’s duties were added to his role as an aide in an Immigration & Border Security office. ProPublica sought an interview with Fugate through DHS and the White House, but he was unavailable, because he was moving out of his parent's house.
A former Homeland Security official said the Fugate appointment “means that the department founded to prevent terrorism in the United States no longer prioritizes preventing terrorism in the United States.”

It's Idiotville.
 

Punch » 05 Jun 2025, 2:49 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 2:49 am

A questionable move.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
(Full article at above link)

 When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas. “Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space. His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million budget. The White House appointed Fugate, a former Trump campaign worker who interned at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, to a Homeland Security VP. Fugate’s appointment is the latest shock for an office that has been decimated since President Donald Trump returned to the White House and began remaking national security to give it a laser focus on immigration.
 
Typically, a candidate that green wouldn’t have gotten an interview for a junior position, much less be hired to run operations.  “Maybe he’s a wunderkind, or maybe he’s Doogie Howser" said one counterterrorism agent, clearly despondent about his new boss. In the past seven weeks, at least five high-profile targeted attacks have unfolded across the U.S., including a car bombing in California and the gunning down of two Israeli Embassy aides in Washington. Against this backdrop, current and former national security officials say, the Trump administration’s decision to shift counterterrorism resources to immigration and leave the violence-prevention portfolio to inexperienced appointees is “reckless.” “We’re entering very dangerous territory,” one longtime U.S. counterterrorism official said.

 ProPublica sent DHS a detailed list of questions about Fugate’s position, his lack of national security experience and the future of the department’s prevention work. A senior agency official replied with a statement saying only that Fugate’s duties were added to his role as an aide in an Immigration & Border Security office. ProPublica sought an interview with Fugate through DHS and the White House, but he was unavailable, because he was moving out of his parent's house.
A former Homeland Security official said the Fugate appointment “means that the department founded to prevent terrorism in the United States no longer prioritizes preventing terrorism in the United States.”

A right brain vs a left mind nurtured right. People that choose character roles cradle to grave have to sacrifice what to become part of alternate realities in series parallel time alive now?
What is with the left eyebrow? He trying to impersonate the character Spock.

Blackvegetable » 05 Jun 2025, 4:35 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 4:35 am

It's Idiotville.

Says the Biden voter......it doesn't get any more validation of this poster's idiocy.  

RebelGator » 05 Jun 2025, 6:32 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 6:32 am

Says the Biden voter......it doesn't get any more validation of this poster's idiocy.

..it doesn't get any more validation of this poster's idiocy. :rofl:

that's close, Gator...another edit might have done it.

Blackvegetable » 05 Jun 2025, 6:35 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 6:35 am

that's close, Gator...another edit might have done it.

It would help, you know......that thing about context and comprehension.....never mind, it will never take.

RebelGator » 05 Jun 2025, 6:38 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 6:38 am

It would help, you know......that thing about context and comprehension.....never mind, it will never take.

Run it past @*HooooeyVagina 

Punch » 05 Jun 2025, 2:49 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 2:49 am

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Clinton Team Picked to Lead Cuban Cigar Lubrication
 

Hopefully he doesn’t ever wear dresses and doesn’t steal luggage at airports

Skans » 05 Jun 2025, 8:39 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 8:39 am

She had an older man's penis in her mouth.

DeezerShoove » 05 Jun 2025, 10:49 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 10:49 am

She had an older man's penis in her mouth.

And she didn’t swallow 

BuckNaked » 05 Jun 2025, 10:50 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 10:50 am

And she didn’t swallow

The best spit-out America ever had.

DeezerShoove » 05 Jun 2025, 10:49 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 10:49 am

She had an older man's penis in her mouth.

You know what's funny, that's exactly what I think of when I see her face.  In fact, I read some blogs to see what she was up to today, and this has been a huge problem for her and trying to date - find a husband.  What guy wants to be looked at as getting Bill Clinton's sloppy seconds?

But, when you think about it, the truth is that if you are dating a woman over the age of 17, there is a high likelihood that she's had at least one other guy's dick in her mouth. In fact, Monica probably has sucked less dick then most women her age. The difference is that every guy, or every couple Monica's boyfriend ever meets with her is highly likely to make a comment (of if not stare and think) about her sucking dick - "hey, Bobby, so can she give a world-class blow-job, seriously how is it?"  That's a lot of extra crap to ask a man to put up with. 
 
 
 

Skans » 05 Jun 2025, 10:58 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 10:58 am

You know what's funny, that's exactly what I think of when I see her face.  In fact, I read some blogs to see what she was up to today, and this has been a huge problem for her and trying to date - find a husband.  What guy wants to be looked at as getting Bill Clinton's sloppy seconds?

But, when you think about it, the truth is that if you are dating a woman over the age of 17, there is a high likelihood that she's had at least one other guy's dick in her mouth. In fact, Monica probably has sucked less dick then most women her age. The difference is that every guy, or every couple Monica's boyfriend ever meets with her is highly likely to make a comment (of if not stare and think) about her sucking dick - "hey, Bobby, so can she give a world-class blow-job, seriously how is it?"  That's a lot of extra crap to ask a man to put up with.

World-famous and good are not the same.
Bill would **** anything warm and moist.

Skans » 05 Jun 2025, 10:58 am » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 10:58 am

You know what's funny, that's exactly what I think of when I see her face.  In fact, I read some blogs to see what she was up to today, and this has been a huge problem for her and trying to date - find a husband.  What guy wants to be looked at as getting Bill Clinton's sloppy seconds?

But, when you think about it, the truth is that if you are dating a woman over the age of 17, there is a high likelihood that she's had at least one other guy's dick in her mouth. In fact, Monica probably has sucked less dick then most women her age. The difference is that every guy, or every couple Monica's boyfriend ever meets with her is highly likely to make a comment (of if not stare and think) about her sucking dick - "hey, Bobby, so can she give a world-class blow-job, seriously how is it?"  That's a lot of extra crap to ask a man to put up with.

she looks a lot better today than she did then...



it's sad that she'll be forever remembered for the scandal and nothing else...
 

DeezerShoove » 05 Jun 2025, 4:58 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 4:58 pm

World-famous and good are not the same.
Bill would **** anything warm and moist.

Ok, so lets say you go to a some friend's party.  Monica is there with her steady boyfriend. What's the first thing that goes through YOUR mind as you are casually talking to Monica and her boyfriend?
 

ROG62 » 05 Jun 2025, 9:01 pm » wrote: ↑

05 Jun 2025, 9:01 pm

she looks a lot better today than she did then...



it's sad that she'll be forever remembered for the scandal and nothing else...

I agree - she's not a bad looking woman.  What was she, 21, 22 at the time?  I was reading a bit about her now.  She explains that its been difficult for her to date. Not married.  No kids - and she really wanted a family. One mistake with the wrong powerful, manipulative old man and her life was ruined. 
 

Skans » Yesterday, 7:42 am » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 7:42 am

I agree - she's not a bad looking woman.  What was she, 21, 22 at the time?  I was reading a bit about her now.  She explains that its been difficult for her to date. Not married.  No kids - and she really wanted a family. One mistake with the wrong powerful, manipulative old man and her life was ruined. 
 

It wasn't one mistake. there were several encounters for a period of time. She new what she was doing at the time and believed she could get away with it being protected by the system she was in.

31stArrival » Yesterday, 8:02 am » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 8:02 am

It wasn't one mistake. there were several encounters for a period of time. She new what she was doing at the time and believed she could get away with it being protected by the system she was in.

I'd be inclined to agree with you if she was in her late 20's early 30's.  Being only 21 or so, I have some sympathy for the woman. Sure, she should have known better. It was consensual. It was legal. And, if she really cared, she could have been more discrete.  A bad life decision that affected the rest of her life. Like being branded with a scarlet letter.