'The American people pay for this, and they don't know how bad it is.'

The week before President Donald Trump took office for the second time on January 20, many of his supporters cheered as news broke that the FBI had shuttered its Office of Diversity and Inclusion the previous month. However, some of that celebration may have been premature, since the ODI staff apparently remain with the agency, merely having moved to other departments.

To learn more about the ways the FBI has attempted to prepare for Trump's second term, Blaze News spoke with former Special Agent Steve Friend, who blew the whistle on the agency regarding its investigations into January 6. Friend offered a bleak illustration of the agency as it currently stands, as well as hope for the tenure of prospective new director Kash Patel.

ODI closes up shop: Notable but limited victory

On January 16, Fox News broke the news that the FBI Office of Diversity and Inclusion was now closed. "In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI), effective by December 2024," the agency said in a statement, as Blaze News previously reported.

During campaign season, Trump repeatedly pledged to end DEI-related infrastructure that had lately sprung up in federal agencies, so the news of the now-defunct ODI seemed to signal that Trump had already made an impact, even before he returned to the White House.

'The reason is, CORRUPTION!'

Trump, however, responded to the news not by gloating...

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