A former FBI agent who was suspended during the Biden administration and reinstated under Donald Trump has been fired from the bureau once again.
Steve Friend, a whistleblower who was key to 2023 Republican claims that the FBI was being weaponized against conservatives, was dismissed by FBI director Kash Patel after making veiled threats directly to his boss on a podcast, according to The New York Post.
“You better pray to Gaia or Vishnu or whatever your maker is, that RealSteveFriend is never in a position to be an instrument of God’s wrath,” Friend said on the podcast of another former FBI agent, Kyle Seraphin.
“I will be merciful: I won’t give you a trial and a hanging,” Friend said on The Seraphin Show on Dec. 5. “I’ll allow you to breathe every breath that your body will have for the rest of its natural life inside of a box, and then when it ultimately fades to black, that’s when real wrath begins.”
While not mentioned explicitly by name, Patel quoted the threat made toward “executive leadership” in Friend’s dismissal letter dated Dec. 12.
“You are being summarily dismissed from your position at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and removed from the federal service, under my authority as the FBI Director, effective immediately,” Patel wrote.
“You have demonstrated unprofessional conduct and poor judgment.”
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