President Donald Trump appointed a 22-year-old recent college graduate with reportedly no national security expertise to lead the Department of Homeland Security’s main hub for terrorism prevention, ...

Thomas Fugate is the latest political appointee of President Donald Trump’s administration to raise some eyebrows. The 22-year-old graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio in May 2024 and ...

The 22-year-old Donald Trump superfan put in charge of countering domestic terrorism has faced understandable questions over his experience with law enforcement. Thomas Fugate’s appointment as ...

Thomas Fugate, a 22-year-old who recently graduated from the University of San Antonio, was appointed as the head of a terrorism prevention unit with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by the ...

Now, Fugate has been publicly downgraded by his own department and made to give a humiliating interview, insisting that he is only a “low-level” member of staff. Thomas Fugate is a Donald Trump ...

Thomas Fugate, a 22-year-old graduate from The University of Texas at San Antonio, clinched a lucrative position in the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from ProPublica that ...

Just one year after graduating from the University of Texas at San Antonio, a 22-year-old politics student has been tapped to lead counter-terrorism efforts in the United States. Fugate posted to ...

With no experience in a space that is set to stop attacks like September 11, 2001, counterterrorism officials, social media critics and American voters are increasingly concerned. Thomas Fugate, a ...

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