FBI agents 'aghast' by Trump team’s ineptitude: ex-agency supervisor

Michael Feinberg, former assistant special agent in charge at the FBI, says do not expect President Donald Trump appointees to realize how embarrassing they’re acting any time soon. For that, you need to be capable of shame.

“I would push back on the notion that this administration can be embarrassed,” said Feinberg, while speaking to MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace about FBI Director Kash Patel’s plan to invite UFC entertainment fighters to train his agents at Quantico.

“When FBI agents are training to fight … their goal is emphatically not to wrestle somebody to the ground and engage in three-minute rounds of ground fighting. Their goal is to momentarily incapacitate the subject, create space between them so that they can safely draw their weapon and apprehend the individual in the normal means of arrest,” Feinberg said. “… They're not trying to score points or entertain an audience. They're trying to get an important job done.”

Feinberg added that his sources inside the FBI are “aghast” at Patel’s proposal, and said Patel “has no idea what it's like to be in a fist fight.”

“Donald Trump has no idea what it's like to go to war, so they're basically just doing things that they think the cool guys who do this sort of thing would do. But I don't know anybody in the FBI who wanted to be an ultimate fighter. We wanted to protect our communities.”

Feinberg kept the lashing underway, pointing out that the administration, as a whole, is a mess.

“The price of everything is going up. We're enmeshed in a war of our choosing. We have alienated every ally in the world. The economy is not doing well. The DOJ is losing indictments at a rate that is historically more than notable,” said Feinberg. “Hopefully the average citizen, including those who originally supported this administration, is starting to wake up and see that … they couldn't even hit the side of a barn.”