Peter Strzok texted "we'll stop" Trump from becoming president – and the country spent years watching the FBI rot from the inside.
Now Kash Patel's own hand-picked deputy director is on LinkedIn liking posts from a Democrat running on a platform of opposing Trump.
The FBI wants you to call it an accident.
What Christopher Raia Actually Liked
FBI Deputy Director Christopher Raia – the man Kash Patel put in charge of the bureau's day-to-day operations after Dan Bongino departed – liked a campaign post from David Sundberg on LinkedIn.
Sundberg isn't just any Democrat.
He's the former head of the FBI's Washington Field Office who ran the January 6 investigation, helped build the Jack Smith cases against Trump, and now runs that record as his entire campaign platform while seeking a Maryland congressional seat.
Just the News caught it, preserved screenshots, and confronted the bureau.
Raia's LinkedIn profile was scrubbed before the story published.
The FBI's official statement called it accidental – "immediately removed when brought to attention" – and insisted Patel has full confidence in Raia.
That explanation requires you to believe the number two official at the FBI accidentally endorsed a political campaign built entirely around attacking his own director.
The Pattern the FBI Wants You to Forget
This isn't a new problem.
Peter Strzok texted "we'll stop it" when asked if Trump would win the presidency – and kept running the Russia investigation for months.
Timothy Thibault liked social media posts calling Trump a "psychologically broken man" and worked to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story at the same time.
An FBI agent who headed the Miami field office had his Facebook scrubbed of anti-Trump posts before he got the job covering Mar-a-Lago – because the bureau knew the bias was there.
The through-line isn't coincidence.
Career FBI officials who spent years building cases against Trump have developed a cultural reflex – a default assumption that opposing the president is what professionals do.
Kash Patel was brought in to break that culture.
He's fired dozens of agents connected to the Trump investigations.
He's purged field office leaders who ran the January 6 operations.
Now his own deputy director is on LinkedIn quietly telling the world which side he's on.
Who Is Watching the Watchmen
Raia is a career agent, not a political appointee.
He led the FBI's response to the New Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans, ran the New York Field Office, and was promoted by Patel to serve alongside co-deputy director Andrew Bailey as the bureau's chief operating officer equivalent.
Patel chose him specifically because he was supposed to be a professional who could execute the mission without the partisan baggage.
David Sundberg – the man whose campaign Raia quietly endorsed – has posted publicly that America is "less safe" with Kash Patel running the FBI.
Sundberg attended a "No Kings" rally in southern Maryland last week carrying a "RESIST" sign.
He has said his entire reason for running is to hold Trump accountable.
Raia liked his campaign post.
The FBI called it an accident.
Either Patel's deputy director is so disengaged from his own public profile that he accidentally endorses campaigns targeting his boss – or the FBI is asking you to accept that story because the truth is worse.
The resistance culture at the FBI didn't get purged.
It just went quiet.
Sources:
- Steven Richards, "FBI deputy director liked social media post from anti-Trump ex-agent, FBI says it was an accident," Just the News, April 1, 2026.
- Judicial Watch, "Judicial Watch Sues For Records on Social Media Posts Critical of Donald Trump by Top FBI Agent Investigating Trump Assassination Attempt," Judicial Watch, October 31, 2024.
- House Judiciary Committee Republicans, "Testimony Reveals FBI Employees Who Warned Social Media Companies about Hack and Leak Operation Knew Hunter Biden Laptop Wasn't Russian Disinformation," September 27, 2024.
