A former FBI supervisor has come forward to allege that President Donald Trump pushed the bureau to investigate anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles after agents found no evidence they had committed a crime.
Jill Fields, a former supervisory intelligence analyst in the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, made the allegation in a new whistleblower disclosure sent to Sens. Alex Padilla and John Cornyn, the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s immigration panel.
She is asking Congress and the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate.
The disclosure describes two instances in early 2025 when Fields says senior administration officials pushed the FBI to investigate protesters, despite concerns inside the bureau that their conduct was protected by the First Amendment, according to Padilla’s letter summarizing the disclosure.
In one incident, Trump had watched a TikTok video of protesters using bullhorns to warn residents about immigration officers in Alhambra, California, and tell them about their legal rights. FBI personnel who reviewed the incident had not found evidence of a crime.
The White House then instructed FBI Director Kash Patel to have the Los Angeles field office investigate the protesters.
Patel later told senior bureau officials that Trump “was angry about the incident, and he wanted those protesters investigated and arrested,” according to CNN, which reviewed the disclosure.
Fields later said she was told by another person,...
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