President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters—including many who attacked the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021 in a desperate bid to overturn the results of the 2020 election—are furious at FBI Director Kash Patel’s decision to promote an agency veteran to lead the Washington Field Office despite his involvement in probing the Capitol riot, Raw Story reported. Steven J. Jensen was the former chief of the F.B.I.’s Domestic Terrorism Operations Section. Trump’s fans, including some of the 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters who were pardoned by the president, took to social media Monday to express their outrage over Patel’s decision. “The anger and depression is hitting hard today,” Richard Barnett, a self-described white nationalist sentenced to 54 months in prison for participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection, wrote on X on Monday. Barnett complained that Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino “stabbed us in the back” and “actually promoted one of our tormenters, Steve Jensen, into a position of great power within the FBI.” Kyle Seraphin, a member of the group of former agents who called themselves the “Suspendables” after objecting to the Jan. 6 investigations, called Jensen a “true J6 insurrection believer” and a “January 6th hysteric” on X.
The anger and depression is hitting hard today. The DOJ and FBI weaponized against us. #J6ers were murdered. Others were tormented into suicide. The rest of us were imprisoned, tortured, our families left to fend for themselves, houses raided and children scared and scarred… pic.twitter.com/tEkMy7PQO2
— Richard Bigo Barnett (@BigoBarnett) April 7, 2025
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