The Trump administration has taken decisive action to reclaim federal property after a recently retired Border Patrol official tried to walk away with massive social media accounts that belonged to the American taxpayers, the Washington Examiner reports exclusively.
Gregory Bovino, who recently left his position with Border Patrol, had the audacity to rename three official government social media accounts to his personal title and refused to hand them back over to federal authorities. The Facebook, Instagram, and X accounts boasted a combined following of 850,000 Americans who thought they were following official Border Patrol communications.
But President Trump's team wasn't having any of it. The administration worked with the social media platforms to shut down Bovino's access and reclaim what rightfully belongs to the federal government - and by extension, We the People.
Deep State Mindset on Full Display
This brazen attempt to steal federal property perfectly encapsulates the entitled Deep State mindset that plagued Washington for decades. Career bureaucrats genuinely believed they owned the government resources entrusted to their care, treating taxpayer-funded platforms as their personal kingdom.
Under the Biden regime, this kind of behavior would have been ignored or even celebrated. But Trump's administration is making it crystal clear that the days of federal employees treating government property as their personal piggy bank are over.
The swift action sends a powerful message to other federal employees who might be harboring similar ideas about walking away with taxpayer resources. Every social media follower, every government database, every federal resource belongs to the American people - not to the bureaucrats temporarily managing them.
This is exactly the kind of government accountability that Americans voted for when they delivered Trump his decisive 2024 victory. No more Deep State entitlement. No more bureaucrats acting like they own the place.
How many other federal employees tried similar stunts during the transition? And what other government resources need to be reclaimed from entitled bureaucrats who forgot they work for us?