A top FBI official appears to have violated ethics guidelines when he made a series of highly partisan posts on social media, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says.
Timothy Thibault, the assistant special agent-in-charge (ASAC) at the Washington Field Office, shared a post on Twitter that called then-President Donald Trump “a psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man,” according to Grassley.
Other posts saw Thibault telling Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, “was a disgrace” and Thibault liking a post on LinkedIn that claimed then-Attorney General William Barr had “gone rogue” because of his review of the case against onetime Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn….