Now-former top CBP official Greg Bovino refused to hand over his official Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts – which combined for 850,000 followers though there was no doubt plenty of overlap – even after he officially left government service earlier this month so the Trump Regime seized control of them and shut them down last week, the Washington Examiner reports.
“Chief Patrol Agent Bovino has retired from federal service and no longer has access to official government social media accounts,” an official wrote to the Examiner, lol. It’s not clear why Bovino wanted to hang onto the accounts – one of which was Bovino’s command post, CBP El Centro, before he renamed it for himself – but it’s not hard to guess that he wanted to hang onto his following for a podcasting career or whatever now that he’s been ousted as the official scapegoat.
In a tweet, an Examiner reporter quotes a DHS official shittalking Bovino over the social media account turf war in which Corey Lewandowski had allowed Greg to do whatever he wanted with the accounts. “Corey prevented the Commissioner from taking any action against Bovino, so that just empowered Bovino and his ego even more. Ever wonder why [CBP] put boats on the river in Chicago? Bovino was willing to make agents literal sitting ducks just for the photo op,” said the source.