Posted on 06/18/2023 2:59:49 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The only problem with the case and how it has been described, however, is that according to the government’s own criminal complaint, Ventura had never actually funded any terrorist group. The only “terrorist” he is accused of ever being in contact with was an undercover FBI agent who befriended him online as a 16-year-old, solicited small cash donations in the form of gift cards, and directed him not to tell anyone else about their intimate online relationship, including his family.
The arrest has shaken his family, who denied allegations that their son was a terrorist and said that he had been manipulated by the FBI. Ventura’s father, Paul Ventura, told The Intercept that Mateo suffered from childhood developmental issues and had been forced to leave his school due to bullying from other students.
“He was born prematurely, he had brain development issues. I had the school do a neurosurgery evaluation on him and they said his brain was underdeveloped,” Ventura said. “He was suffering endless bullying at school with other kids taking food off his plate, tripping him in the hallway, humiliating him, laughing at him.”
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Obama’s FBI started doing this
Fetterman?
Gotta create a crisis to meet those quotas.
Never let a created crisis go to waste.
No longer the federal bureau of investigation, they are the Feral Bureaucrats of Instigation who instead of investigating crimes instigate them instead as that’s “safer” and the officers get to go home and the premade perps usually are dead and can’t spill the beans.
Here I thought it was just an old joke that there’s more undercover FIB agents in White supremacist groups and whatever’s left of the klan than there are actual members 😖🤬
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