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Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old to Lead Terror Prevention
- Thomas Fugate, a 22-year-old recent college graduate without prior government leadership experience, was appointed to lead a Department of Homeland Security division focused on preventing domestic terrorism and targeted violence.
- His appointment follows a significant downsizing of CP3 amid a spring surge in extremist violence, including attacks in Boulder, Washington, and California.
- CP3 oversees an $18 million grant program aimed at helping communities combat violent extremism and targets terrorism, school shootings, and hate-driven violence.
- Experts criticized the hire as 'putting the intern in charge' and called the move an insult to the former leadership, warning, 'We're entering very dangerous territory.'
- The appointment raises concerns about the Trump administration's shift of counterterrorism resources to immigration, potentially weakening national violent extremism prevention efforts.
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'The intern in charge”: Meet the 22-year-old Trump’s team picked to lead terrorism prevention • Louisiana Illuminator
Thomas Fugate poses for a selfie at a 2024 campaign rally for President Donald Trump. (Credit: Via Fugate’s Instagram account)ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. 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 li…
Thomas Fugate, newly appointed head of terrorism prevention in the United States, has an atypical CV. ...
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Five years ago, Thomas Fugate described himself as a self-employed “landscape architect” and had previously worked in retail while studying politics and law.
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