FBI Analyst Who Resigned Over Kash Patel Announces Congressional Run
'Last week, after nearly 17 years on the job, I resigned from the FBI'
'Die Elon': Man charged for firebombing Tesla dealership and GOP headquarters in New Mexico; Pam Bondi vows consequences
The U.S. Department of Justice has brought significant criminal charges against a New Mexico man who is accused of carrying out arson attacks against the New Mexico Republican Party's headquarters and a Tesla dealership in the state.
Jamison Wagner, a 40-year-old resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was arrested and charged with two counts of malicious damage or destruction of property by fire or explosives, according to federal authorities. If convicted, Wagner faces between five and 20 years in prison for each count.
'Hurling firebombs is not a political protest.'
Federal prosecutors claim the first arson attack took place at a Tesla dealership in Albuquerque on Feb. 9. Wagner is accused of arson of the Tesla dealership and also of vandalizing the building with inflammatory graffiti, including allegedly writing: “Die Elon,” “Tesla Nazi Inc,” “Die Tesla Nazi,” and swastika symbols, according to a report from the Justice Department.
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On March 30, the headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico was allegedly attacked. The office reportedly suffered from shattered glass and extensive fire damage to a door, and the outside walls were spray-painted with graffiti that read: "ICE=KKK."
Surveillance cameras at both locations captured a white 2015 Hyundai Accent near the crime scenes.
Evidence collected from both crime scenes led to the home of Wagner.
During a search of Wagner's home, investigators allegedly discovered a stencil with the term “ICE = KKK,” an apparent reference to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Authorities also found eight suspected incendiary devices.
No one was injured in either incident, according to investigators.
The Justice Department announced in a statement that FBI and ATF agents found "blue styrofoam egg cartons consistent with the polystyrene material found in the improvised napalm used in the Tesla fire, materials for manufacturing additional incendiary devices, ignitable liquids consistent with the gasoline used at both fire scenes, as well as black and red spray paint matching the graffiti used at both crime scenes" at Wagner's residence.
Authorities also allegedly found Wagner's 2015 white Hyundai Accent in his garage.
Federal authorities have declared that Wagner will now face the full force of the law if he is found guilty.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche declared, "Hurling firebombs is not a political protest. It is a dangerous felony that we will prosecute to the maximum extent. The impressive work by law enforcement in New Mexico sends a clear message to perpetrators of all of the shameful attacks on Tesla facilities and political establishments: We are coming for you, you can’t hide, and you will do serious jail time to pay for your crimes.”
Deputy Director Robert Cekada of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives added, "A key suspect is now in custody thanks to the exceptional work of ATF’s Special Agents, certified fire investigators, and forensic specialists. This arrest marks a critical step toward justice in the firebombing that targeted a Tesla dealership and the New Mexico Republican Party Headquarters. Our teams worked around the clock — collecting, analyzing, and connecting forensic evidence across both scenes. With the support of our local partners, the FBI, and the rapid work of ATF’s forensic lab, we were able to link the crimes, identify those responsible, and take swift action to protect the public. This is what ATF does best: We follow the evidence, we find the truth, and we bring offenders to justice.”
FBI Director Kash Patel stated, "This arrest is part of the FBI’s aggressive efforts to investigate and hold accountable those who have targeted Tesla facilities in various states across the country. Thank you to our agents and support teams in Albuquerque who did an outstanding job executing the mission. Under Attorney General Bondi’s leadership, we will continue to locate and arrest those responsible for these acts of domestic terrorism, and the FBI will work with partners at the Department of Justice to ensure such lawbreakers face justice.”
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi stated of the case on the X social media platform, "We will be prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law. We are seeking up to 40 years in prison — no negotiating."
Bondi also hinted this week that federal prosecutors would not accept plea deals.
“Let this be the final lesson to those taking part in this ongoing wave of political violence,” said Bondi. “We will arrest you, we will prosecute you, and we will not negotiate. Crimes have consequences.”
FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson told the New York Post, “Following Attorney General Bondi’s leadership, Director Patel immediately took steps to have the FBI quickly locate and arrest domestic terrorists attacking Tesla facilities — and we’re glad to see the latest operation succeed not just in this effort, but also bring to justice the same alleged attacker of the New Mexico Republican Party from February."
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New York Times Lies About Why Kash Patel Suspended Analyst Key To FBI Corruption
The Times' Adam Goldman is a paid shill for the world's worst people, not a reporter.Dan Bongino publicly responds to FBI appointment of J6-obsessed official
In a move no conservative saw coming, a key player in the January 6 witch hunts was recently named the assistant director of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
That key player is Steven Jensen.
While conservatives had been counting on newly crowned FBI Director Kash Patel to root out people like Jensen, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino posted a few cryptic X posts that seemed to defend the FBI’s decision to give him the position.
“As I dive back into work, I want to reassure you that nothing that is happening here is happening by accident. Because of the sensitivity of what the FBI deals with, both the Director and I have to be circumspect in what we can make public. Bad guys read this stuff too. Neither one of us came here to play games,” Bongino wrote in a post on X.
“Measure us by results. You will see them. But just because you don’t see something happening right this second, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening,” he continued, noting that not every decision made will “please everyone,” and they won’t be “pandering” in order to do so.
“When you see something happen, and the entire story isn’t public, and the underlying facts aren’t all public, it may appear counterintuitive to our reform agenda,” he wrote in a follow-up post, adding, “I promise you, it’s not an accident.”
“We are assuming that Bongino was responding to this controversy,” Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News Tonight.” “If, in fact, he was responding to that, it still does not answer one of the hardest questions that I think and one of the most important questions that I have.”
That question, Baker reveals, is, “Why have we been a week and a half into this appointment and there’s been no announcement from the FBI, not even the lowest level public relations or spokesperson from the FBI?”
That includes FBI Director Kash Patel.
“There’s always an announcement about important positions when they are filled like this, and for him to take over the most important position in the Washington Field Office with no announcement, no press release,” Baker says, noting that the controversy surrounding the move would be incredibly hard for them to ignore.
“And still, the only thing that we have seen posted from Kash Patel on his X account so far is the intramural fundraising hockey game that they had in Chicago, and maybe a couple of other arrests, but nothing to do with this particular controversy whatsoever,” Baker continues.
“So they are obviously ignoring it for some reason,” he adds.
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MAGA betrayal? Kash Patel appoints J6 ‘terrorist’ hunter to key position
FBI Director Kash Patel has made it clear that he rejects the mainstream narrative that January 6 was a massive insurrection and has even suggested that the FBI played a role in inciting the event.
These sentiments stand in stark contrast to his recent appointment of Steven Jensen as the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Jensen’s past role as Section Chief of the Domestic Terrorism Operations Section, in which he labeled January 6 protesters "terrorists," leading to aggressive efforts to arrest them, has sparked widespread controversy.
“This comes as a shock to conservatives who were counting on FBI director Kash Patel to clean up the bureau, because Jensen was a key figure in the domestic terror push against January 6 protesters,” says “Blaze News Tonight’s” Jill Savage.
To get the inside scoop on this strange appointment, Jill speaks with Blaze Media investigative journalist Steve Baker, who co-authored a recent article with Joe Hanneman on this subject.
“What should we make of this decision to have Steve Jensen out there in the Washington Field Office?” Jill asks.
“This is the most confounding thing to come out of the administration thus far, especially out of the new FBI, the new Department of Justice. As you know, we expected and we hoped that Kash and Dan Bongino collectively would be a wrecking ball in that agency,” says Baker. “That's what they alluded to and told us that they would do in so many interviews and in Kash Patel's own book.”
Jensen’s appointment is causing many conservatives to recant their former endorsements. Even leftist outlets are pointing out the hypocrisy. Baker says the New York Times admitted that Jensen’s appointment “seemed to be kind of contrary to what Kash Patel has promised the MAGA movement, the Trump supporters, and the J6 community.”
To make matters worse, the hiring was done covertly. It was an email leak that publicized the controversy.
“He was already an employee, but it was not announced in any way. This was done kind of surreptitiously under the cover of darkness. Nobody announced it; there was no press release; there was no announcement from Kash Patel or any other FBI spokesman,” says Baker.
“It wasn't until we caused a ruckus through our X thread … that [the Washington Field Office] finally responded and said, ‘just go check the website,’ and we did…and Steven Jensen's name has been added as assistant director in charge.”
Now that the news is out, conservatives across the country are raging.
Jensen’s role in the investigation and prosecution of January 6 protesters destroyed a lot of lives, says Baker, who knows a thing or two about being victimized by a weaponized DOJ for his January 6 attendance as an investigative journalist.
“We're talking about misdemeanor defendants, nonviolent defendants, families that were raided by FBI SWAT teams at 6:30 in the morning, guns up on their family, on their children, on their wives,” he reflects.
“People lost their homes; they lost their jobs, their careers; they were kicked out of their churches; they lost their marriages — all manner of family destruction and lives that were ruined as a result of this process, and this guy was at the actual forefront. He was the tip of the spear in the agency that was seeing this forward.”
On top of that, Jensen also was part of these “twice daily phone calls” that began two days after January 6, in which the FBI spoke with local and state police, governor's mansions, and mayoral residences and offices from every city in America to give them the official J6 “narrative, marching order, and agenda.”
“This was a national forum for which they were able to indoctrinate all of the law enforcement agencies across the country, the mayor's offices, the governors across the country, and teach them, tell them, and show them how to go out and prosecute these individuals,” says Baker.
Thus far, it’s been crickets from Kash Patel. Bongino has posted a cryptic “trust the plan” memo without ever addressing Jensen directly.
“They are obviously ignoring it for some reason,” Baker says.
To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.
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NYC Mayor Adams ditches Dem primary, then takes aim at the 'deep state'
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, announced on Thursday that he will not seek the party's nomination but will run his re-election campaign as an independent candidate.
Adams, who rarely posts on his personal X account, shared a video announcing his decision. The announcement stood in sharp contrast to his two most recent prior posts from the summer of 2024, when he had voiced support for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election.
'I have never seen anyone do such a good job of defining that deep state.'
Just a few months later, Adams was effectively on the outs with Democrats, facing a federal corruption lawsuit shortly after he criticized the Biden administration for fueling the nation's illegal immigration crisis.
Adams wrote on Thursday, "I have always put New York's people before politics and party—and I always will. I am running for mayor in the general election because our city needs independent leadership that understands working people."
In his six-minute video, Adams discussed the grit of New Yorkers, the "bogus case" against him, and the other mayoral candidates.
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While he stood by his decision to call out the Biden administration for its immigration failures, he stopped short of severing ties with the Democratic Party.
"Some leaders choose rhetoric over results and fail to make working people their North Star. But the values of the working-class base — pro-public safety, pro-worker, pro-quality of life — are still there standing strong even if many who share them have left the party," he stated. "I had hoped to fight for them again in a Democratic primary for mayor."
"But the dismissal of the bogus case against me dragged on too long, making it impossible to mount a primary campaign while these false accusations were held over me," Adams continued. "Though I am still a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forego the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an independent candidate in the general election."
Adams acknowledged that the accusations against him in the corruption case "may have shaken" New Yorkers' confidence in him. He maintained his innocence, but expressed regret for "trust[ing] people I should not have."
He slammed his opponents without naming any mayoral candidates specifically.
"Some were advocating against more police, even if they are for them now," Adams said. "Some were fighting the pro-growth strategies of our administration. Some even sought to limit housing production. Some voted to give more of your tax dollars to other cities and towns in this state while refusing to change laws that let dangerous criminals run wild on our streets. And some sat at home and did absolutely nothing."
The mayor boasted his administration's record on housing, crime reduction, job creation, and benefit disbursements for low-income New Yorkers.
Adams admitted that he made mistakes.
"But it was not a mistake to invest more in housing than any other mayor. It wasn't a mistake to put a cop on every train. It wasn't a mistake to increase the value of housing vouchers and earn income tax credit to the highest levels ever," he stated.
"And it wasn't a mistake to put politics aside, defy my party when needed, and speak for the voice of working New Yorkers," Adams declared.
'Trump derangement syndrome is real.'
On Wednesday, the same day the indictment against Adams was dropped, comedian Andrew Schulz released a new episode of his podcast, "Flagrant," featuring an interview with the mayor. The two spoke about New York City's immigration crisis, Adams' decision to criticize the Biden administration, and the accusations against him.
Adams encouraged Schulz to read FBI Director Kash Patel's book, "Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy."
Schulz asked, "Is this what people refer to — and I think this word has been used too much, but the 'deep state,' or whatever it is?"
"It's not used too much," Adams responded. "It's real, brother."
"I have never seen anyone do such a good job of defining that deep state," he continued, referring to Patel. "You should have him on your show."
When asked whether legal immigrants should be afraid under the Trump administration, Adams responded by torching those on the left who have spread false rumors that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has targeted individuals with legal status.
"When I'm moving around my immigrant communities, and they share with me, 'We're afraid. We're afraid to go to school, work, church, etc.' Why are they afraid?" Adams asked. "The activists who love this hysteria are giving the impression that all the sudden ICE is going into our schools and taking our children, going into hospitals — that's just not true."
He declared that "Trump derangement syndrome is real" and expressed disappointment that the Department of Government Efficiency's efforts to root out waste and fraud had become politicized by the president's critics.
Adams also blasted the Biden administration for placing parents on the FBI watchlist for being concerned about what their children were being taught in public schools.
"I'm telling you, read Kash's book," he told Schulz.
One source close to Adams told the New York Post, "Now that this case is gone and he's running in the general, you're going to see a very 'f*** you' mentality from him."
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