The Trump administration has successfully shut down a brazen attempt by a recently retired Border Patrol official to steal federal social media accounts with a massive 850,000-follower audience for his own personal gain.
Gregory Bovino, who recently left his position with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, had the audacity to rename three official government social media accounts—Facebook, Instagram, and X—to his personal title and refused to return them despite being federal property, according to an exclusive Washington Examiner report.
This is exactly the kind of deep state nonsense that patriots elected President Trump to clean up. Here's a federal bureaucrat thinking he can just walk away with taxpayer-funded social media platforms like they're his personal property. The sheer arrogance is breathtaking.
Swift Justice from Team Trump
Unlike the Biden regime that would have probably let this slide for months while lawyers shuffled papers, the Trump administration moved fast to lock Bovino out of all three platforms. Facebook, Instagram, and X have now cut off his unauthorized access to these federal accounts.
Think about what this guy was trying to pull off. These social media accounts were built using federal resources, on government time, with content created by Border Patrol staff. They represent the voice of our border security operations. And this bureaucrat thought he could just rebrand them and take that 850,000-person audience with him?
"This is federal property, not some personal side hustle," said one administration source familiar with the situation.
This incident perfectly illustrates why we need people like Elon Musk running the Department of Government Efficiency. How many other federal employees are treating government resources like their personal playground? How many are planning their own little schemes to monetize their positions?
The American people deserve to know: how did Bovino think he could get away with this theft? And more importantly, how many other rogue federal employees are pulling similar stunts right now across the massive federal bureaucracy?