President-elect Donald Trump suggested that corruption might be linked to why the FBI shut down its diversity, equity, and inclusion office the month before he took the oath of office.
Following a string of major U.S. companies, including Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, backing away from DEI policies, the FBI announced without explanation on Thursday that it had closed the agency’s DEI department in December.
Trump called on the FBI not to destroy any data associated with the department and implied that the decision to close DEI operations shortly before he became president indicated it may have had something to hide.
“We demand that the FBI preserve and retain all records, documents, and information on the now closing DEI Office — Never should have been opened and, if it was, should have closed long ago,” he said in a post to Truth Social. “Why is it that…
