Three former FBI officials allege they were fired from their positions over insufficient loyalty to Donald Trump in a new lawsuit Wednesday.
Former FBI acting director Brian Driscoll, Washington field office head Steven Jensen and Las Vegas field office head Spencer Evans claim they were subject to loyalty tests and pressured to fire FBI agents who worked on investigations into the president.
The lawsuit names current FBI director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice, the office of the President, and the United States of America as defendants.
Driscoll alleges that before becoming the FBI’s acting director in the first month of the Trump administration, attorney Paul Ingrassia, then Trump’s liaison to the Department of Justice, asked him ques