On June 4, Trump selected Thomas Fugate to head the CP3 office of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The role includes the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, which is worth $18 million.
Fugate has no counterterror experience. People familiar with CP3 noted that he would not have been hired even for a junior position.
He will be overseeing an office devastated by the Trump administration’s cuts. It went from eighty to twenty workers, inevitably diminishing morale. Fugate will have to deal with several extremist attacks that are separated by mere weeks.
Fugate was clearly picked based on loyalty to Trump. He has proven himself to be a sycophant.
On Instagram, Fugate traced his political awakening to nine years ago, when as a 13-year-old “in a generation deprived of hope, opportunity, and happiness, I saw in one man the capacity for real and lasting change: Donald Trump.”
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He has publicly campaigned with Trump supporters and Republicans.
In February, Fugate was a “special assistant” at the DHS’s immigration office. He was tapped to lead CP3 after Bill Braniff, who has decades of national security experience, resigned in March when his staff were being fired en masse.
Other CP3 employees were shocked “at how little Fugate knows about the basics of his role and likened meetings with him to ‘career counseling.'”
Fugate may soon find that he doesn’t have the millions to squander that he once enjoyed. The DHS recommended “eliminating the threat-prevention grant program…”
