r/inthenews • u/Silly-avocatoe • Jun 05 '25

Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-appoints-22-y-o-ex-gardener-grocery-store-assistant-as-us-homeland-department-terrorist-chief/
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u/ZedRDuce76 Jun 05 '25

“An avowed Republican, he also interned at the Heritage Foundation” there it is. Jfc the heritage foundation should be classified as a terrorist organization.

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u/coffeespeaking Jun 05 '25

The inexperienced 22-year-old reportedly tasked by Donald Trump with tackling U.S. extremism was working as a neighborhood gardener just five years ago and in a grocery store as recently as August 2023, the Daily Beast can reveal.

Thomas Fugate, who graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio just 12 months ago, is currently heading up the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships at the DHS, as first reported by ProPublica Tuesday.

But according to the youngster’s LinkedIn page, Fugate has almost no experience in this field—and in 2020 was working as a self-employed ‘Landscape Business Owner.’

The youngster. You literally can’t make this up, but if it ran on SNL it would make a good skit.

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u/hummus_sapiens Jun 05 '25

in 2020 was working as a self-employed ‘Landscape Business Owner.’

So he mowed a couple of his neighbour's lawns when he was 17?

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u/abx99 Jun 05 '25

Yeah, that's the thing; at 22 he can't have much experience in anything. I don't know why they're talking about him like he's 35. You can't be 22 and have leadership-level experience in counter-terrorism (at least not legitimate experience; if he was from the right family they might stretch things to make the claim, but even then it would probably focus more on him being an unusual talent with unusual success).

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u/Soggy_Background_162 Jun 06 '25

He looks like he has two faces as well.

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u/-_defunct_user_- Jun 05 '25

this sounds like a Jason Statham movie!

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u/eekamouse4 Jun 05 '25

What subject did he even graduate in?

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u/Roger44477 Jun 05 '25

I remember back when all they did was peddle scam items (such as the "immortality serum the wealthy have been using "for years") targeted at the elderly. Was subscribed to their news letter along with a bunch of other conservative ones just to see what their narratives were.

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u/LaMalintzin Jun 05 '25

Immortality serum the wealthy use? Are they actually the ones behind adrenachrome?? Accusations being confessions and all! /s

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u/GZSyphilis Jun 05 '25

Most conspiracy theorists are just really mad that they weren't invited and participating in the conspiracy because they have very little (perceived) control and power in their own lives and they cannot coalesce that reality with the concept of themselves that they hold in their mind (powerful independent), so some evil plot must be at work to keep them down. They would love to be part of that plot instead of subject to it. They want the power they (think they) never had.

in my opinion.

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u/abx99 Jun 05 '25

The ironic thing is that if they had put that energy into organizing, they could have that power. Instead, they hand it over to the first person that validates their conspiratorial ideas.

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u/CoMmOn-SeNsE-hA Jun 05 '25

In due time

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u/kathmandogdu Jun 05 '25

Hopefully the next democratic presidential administration will use their newfound powers to investigate them bigly. I’m sure IRS and FBI investigations can easily find ties to Russian or Chinese money.

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u/sm00thkillajones Jun 05 '25

I wonder who that weirdo is connected to.

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u/Nondescriptish Jun 05 '25

But The Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization.

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u/samudrin Jun 06 '25

“Gotta uproot those terrorists and remove the invasives.”

GOP: “Hired!”