Donald Trump Jr.'s Thanksgiving Message Sparks Backlash

Donald Trump Jr. has triggered a backlash after posting a Thanksgiving message criticizing the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).

On X, formerly Twitter, the ex-president's son shared a painting of a family enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner from outside the window of their home. Outside the window, an FBI agent stands looking in and holding a gun.

He wrote: "Hope you all had an awesome Thanksgiving... Be thankful that the FBI is watching the real domestic, terror threats!!!!"

While it is not immediately clear what aspect of the FBI the Republican was criticizing, high-profile right-wing figures have accused the agencies of having a political bias in favor of Democrats while targeting Republicans for political purposes.

In October, it labeled MAGA followers as a new category of extremists, as revealed by Newsweek.

The bureau was also responsible for seizing thousands of documents in a search of Donald Trump's Florida estate Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, including about 100 marked as classified, as part of the former president's classified documents indictment, in which he is accused of hoarding important documents after leaving the White House and obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them. Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

In October, Trump Jr. blamed the intelligence service for a deadly mass shooting in Maine that killed 18 people and injured another 13 at a bar and a bowling alley, saying the bureau could have stopped the shooter if it was less focused on investigating "MAGA patriots."

"If only the FBI would stop spying on Catholics, concerned parents at PTA meetings, and MAGA patriots maybe they'd actually stop real terrorists for a change rather than trying to create them," the former president's eldest son said on X.

Newsweek has contacted Trump Jr. on social media and the FBI by email to comment on this story.

Nevertheless, reacting to his post, people disapproved of his sentiment.

The campaign group Republicans Against Trump wrote: "Why do you hate our brave law enforcement officers so much?"

Another wrote: "Such a warped view of the world."

And a third said: "The Trumps can't get over his criminal father getting caught by the FBI."

However, he also drew support from Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporters, with one account writing: "The FBI is the real domestic terror threat!"

Another added: "The FBI is just a globalist weapon."

Trump Jr. is also a defendant in the Trump Organization's civil fraud trail, in which the business is accused of inflating its net worth to secure favorable loans. He, as well as his father and brother, has denied all wrongdoing.