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Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
Sun May 18, 2025, 01:33 PM May 18

Kash Patel announcing the FBI is leaving the Hoover building

Aaron Rupar
‪@atrupar.com‬
Kash Patel: "I didn't know that I was going to do this, but I'm gonna announce it on your show anyway. This FBI is leaving the Hoover building, because this building is unsafe for our workforce."

May 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM


Kash Patel: "I didn't know that I was going to do this, but I'm gonna announce it on your show anyway. This FBI is leaving the Hoover building, because this building is unsafe for our workforce."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-18T15:28:18.598Z
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Bayard

(25,263 posts)
2. Why does Patel always look like he's just seen a ghost?
Sun May 18, 2025, 01:37 PM
May 18

Maybe this is a reason trump has been clearing out staff from some buildings lately.

leanforward

(1,107 posts)
3. Why?
Sun May 18, 2025, 01:38 PM
May 18

In my reading around, I have not picked up on a nugget on info about the Hoover Bldg being unsafe.
First, I’ve heard. Where next? Prior planning prevents poor . . . .

hlthe2b

(109,927 posts)
6. He is mentally deranged and I'd bet $$ he's on Haldol (Haldol-eyes) or another similar medication...
Sun May 18, 2025, 01:40 PM
May 18

Heaven help us... At this point we can only hope there is a "DEEP STATE" within FBI remaining.

stillcool

(33,940 posts)
13. lot of that going around...
Sun May 18, 2025, 02:00 PM
May 18

the below is from March, but I think there was another building being sold off recently.


Trump administration deletes list of hundreds of federal buildings targeted for potential sale
https://apnews.com/article/gsa-federal-buildings-doge-fbi-doj-aa123e9c3b12e38c8fa511c2a727f880
By JILL COLVIN, MICHAEL R. SISAK and JOSHUA GOODMAN
Updated 7:44 PM EDT, March 5, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday published a list of more than 440 federal properties it had identified to potentially offload, including the FBI headquarters and the main Department of Justice building, after deeming them “not core to government operations.”

Hours later, however, the administration issued a revised list with only 320 entries that excluded every previously listed building in Washington, D.C. And by Wednesday morning, the list was gone entirely. “Non-core property list (Coming soon)” read the web page where the list had previously been posted.

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Several of the buildings on the initial 443-property chopping block house agencies that Trump has long criticized and targeted, notably the FBI and Justice Department. The FBI and HUD headquarters are also prime examples of the brutalist architectural style that Trump has tried for years to eliminate, preferring traditional, neo-classical architecture instead.

Eliminating federal office space has been a top priority of the new administration. Last month, GSA regional managers received a message from the agency’s Washington headquarters ordering them to begin terminating leases on all of the roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide.

Botany

(74,252 posts)
15. And why are Krasnov and Musk eliminating so much Federal work in and around D.C.?
Sun May 18, 2025, 03:37 PM
May 18

To kill off all those federal jobs that have built a large and powerful black middle class
in the District, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.

Christ on a cracker Trump wants a white America back into power. See bringing in white
S. African Afrikaans.

Burning America to the ground. End of story.

PufPuf23

(9,409 posts)
18. Went on a tour of the FBI / Hoover building age 19,
Sun May 18, 2025, 04:44 PM
May 18

that was over 50 years ago.

There is / was a gun range in the basement.

The tour guide asked for a volunteer at the range and selected me.

Was handed a handgun and fired at a target.

Don't recall the safety specifics.

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