Three former FBI employees, including former acting director Brian Driscoll, are suing the administration of US President Donald Trump after they were fired without cause in August, "Reuters" reported, quoted by News.bg.
According to the three, their dismissal is part of a "revenge campaign" targeting employees considered to be insufficiently loyal. The other two employees are Steve Jensen, a former assistant director of the Washington field office, and Spencer Evans, a former senior official in the Las Vegas field office.
The documents in the case indicate that FBI Director Kash Patel said he was ordered to fire anyone who worked on a criminal investigation into Trump, and that his own job depended on their removal. Patel told Driscoll that “the FBI tried to put the president in jail and he didn“t forget it“.
While Brian Driscoll was the FBI director, the agency was investigating individuals involved in the 2021 Capitol storming.
The former director claims that during a background check before Trump's inauguration in January 2025, White House transition official Paul Ingrassia asked him when he started supporting Trump and whether he had voted for Democratic candidates in the past five elections. Driscoll refused to answer those questions.
Later that evening, Emile Beauvais, a former Trump lawyer who was set to take a senior position at the Justice Department, told him that he had "failed" the vetting interview and that Ingrassia reported that he was not sufficiently "substantiated", which was perceived as a lack of loyalty to Trump's political ideology.