Trump FBI Cuts Ties With the ADL Over Charlie Kirk Backlash

[ad_1] FILE – Turning Level USA Founder Charlie Kirk speaks earlier than Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives on the Turning Level Believers’ Summit, July 26, 2024, in West Palm Seashore, Fla. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon, File)

FBI Director Kash Patel introduced on Wednesday that his company is slicing all ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over its criticism of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Level USA.

In an announcement to Fox Information Digital, Patel mentioned the period of the FBI and ADL working collectively is “over” and he slammed former FBI Director James Comey, who was lately indicted on one depend of constructing false statements and one depend of obstruction of justice for allegedly mendacity underneath oath to Congress.

“James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding brokers with an excessive group functioning like a terrorist group and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Individuals,” Patel mentioned. “That was not legislation enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Individuals at risk.”

He added, “That period is completed. This FBI formally rejects Comey’s insurance policies and any partnership with the ADL.”

In a separate submit to X, Patel declared the FBI “gained’t companion with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.”

It marks a significant change within the FBI as Comey at one level described the company as “in love” with the ADL. In a 2017 deal with to the group, Comey referenced his earlier “love” remarks and declared, “Three years later, I can say, from the attitude of the FBI, we’re nonetheless in love with you.”

The ADL eliminated a Glossary of Extremism and Hate from its web site this week after backlash from conservatives over Turning Level USA being listed as a right-wing extremist group. Kirk based TPUSA with the objective of reaching younger voters. He was shot and killed at a Utah faculty campus occasion earlier this month.

Among the many critics was X proprietor Elon Musk.

“The FBI was taking their ‘hate group’ definitions from ADL, which is why FBI was investigating Charlie Kirk [and] Turning Level, as a substitute of his murderers,” Musk wrote on X.

The longtime critic of the ADL went on to name the group a “hate group.”

“With over 1,000 entries written over a few years, the ADL Glossary of Extremism has served as a supply of high-level info on a variety of subjects for years. On the identical time, an rising variety of entries within the Glossary had been outdated,” the ADL wrote on X in response to criticism. “We additionally noticed a lot of entries deliberately misrepresented and misused.”