Trump to lower FBI recruiting standards

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Good no more Harvard grads....

Exhibit A

 

[1srelluc]

Makes sense given colleges are no more than leftist indoctrination centers.

 

[Muhammed]

So, the FBI is lowering its FBI recruitment standards

They are not lowering their recruitment standards, dumbass.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

This is a good thing.

The Trump regime has lowered standards for everything else – Patel being a glaring example.

 

[Mack The Finger]

So, the FBI is lowering its FBI recruitment standards so that now FBI agents no longer will need a college degree....

This sounds like fake news !

 

[frigidweirdo]

Why would anyone decide that the best way to ensure the FBI is a more excellent and world renowned police force is to turn them into a common police force but with a federal slant?

The Dems are going to now suggest Trump is looking to create a federal police state, this is a boon to them if they have enough sharp people to discuss it in the media and will increase U.S debt.

If you want the best of the best, they need to find the best of the best. Trump loves intellects who graduated from the top schools so this can't be his idea. I don't know who is advising him but this is the exact opposite you want from the creme de la creme and will only lead to MORE abuses.

You want federal agents to take pride in knowing they can match wits with China and excel at stopping their spying. This is a gift to China more than anyone.

If true, this doesn't make sense to me to be honest. I'm confused, especially after hearing Patel talk about wanting to return the bureau to the best in the world.

Because "more excellent" is the Republicans getting their own police force which they can use to enter Democratic states.

 

[frigidweirdo]

This sounds like fake news !

Most of what Trump says sounds like "fake news", but this is the Trump era of ******* stupid just to keep himself in the news daily.

 

[okfine]

Trump already lowered the standards. Look at the ******* morons running the department. Patel the habitual liar and Bongino the blogging whiny ***** as deputy.

 

[wamose]

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerburg and thousands of other rich and successful people are college dropouts. AOC, Kamala and Jasmine Crockett are all well educated college grads. College isn't what it used to be since DEI.

 

[TimFitz]

Since the objective is to create a national political police, along the lines of the Gestapo, lowering standards to fill the ranks with thugs makes perverted sense.

 

[TimFitz]

30 years ago a college degree meant something, now except for certain degrees, they are meaningless.

What's wrong with someone with 10 years of enlisted service in the military, or someone with 10 years previous law enforcement experience but no degree being an agent?

That isn’t true.

Ten years of enlisted service may, or may not, have anything to do with law enforcement, since that was never the military’s job until Trump started using the National Guard to terrorize American cities.

Nor does being a traffic cop prepare you for the FBI.

 

[Votto]

The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine the agency’s primary mission of conducting complex investigations and tracking threats to national security.…

Under a plan pushed by the director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree…

The new plan, current and former agents say, seems to be part of a larger effort by Mr. Patel to have the bureau focus more on street crime, rather than on complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security. Doing so, they added, will erode the bureau’s reputation as an elite law enforcement agency, known for its selectiveness about its recruits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/fbi-agent-recruitment-requirements-trump.html

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So, the FBI is lowering its FBI recruitment standards so that now FBI agents no longer will need a college degree because as we all know we don’t need educated or smart agents working on counter terrorism. I do find it interesting that Kash Patel doesn’t want the FBI to focus on investigating financial fraud or public corruption…gee I wonder why…LOL

Why is AI not taking all their jobs like it is everyone else?

 

[Blaster]

That isn’t true.

Ten years of enlisted service may, or may not, have anything to do with law enforcement, since that was never the military’s job until Trump started using the National Guard to terrorize American cities.

Nor does being a traffic cop prepare you for the FBI.

Taking college courses doesn't qualify a person either.

 

[Papageorgio]

The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine the agency’s primary mission of conducting complex investigations and tracking threats to national security.…

Under a plan pushed by the director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree…

The new plan, current and former agents say, seems to be part of a larger effort by Mr. Patel to have the bureau focus more on street crime, rather than on complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security. Doing so, they added, will erode the bureau’s reputation as an elite law enforcement agency, known for its selectiveness about its recruits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/fbi-agent-recruitment-requirements-trump.html

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So, the FBI is lowering its FBI recruitment standards so that now FBI agents no longer will need a college degree because as we all know we don’t need educated or smart agents working on counter terrorism. I do find it interesting that Kash Patel doesn’t want the FBI to focus on investigating financial fraud or public corruption…gee I wonder why…LOL

Plenty of smart people don’t have degrees, Gates didn’t have a degree and the left holds him in high esteem.

 

[struth]

The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine the agency’s primary mission of conducting complex investigations and tracking threats to national security.…

Under a plan pushed by the director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree…

The new plan, current and former agents say, seems to be part of a larger effort by Mr. Patel to have the bureau focus more on street crime, rather than on complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security. Doing so, they added, will erode the bureau’s reputation as an elite law enforcement agency, known for its selectiveness about its recruits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/fbi-agent-recruitment-requirements-trump.html

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So, the FBI is lowering its FBI recruitment standards so that now FBI agents no longer will need a college degree because as we all know we don’t need educated or smart agents working on counter terrorism. I do find it interesting that Kash Patel doesn’t want the FBI to focus on investigating financial fraud or public corruption…gee I wonder why…LOL

Why do they need a college degree?

 

[TimFitz]

Makes sense given colleges are no more than leftist indoctrination centers.

The only given here is your hostility to education and educated people.

 

[Man With A Plan]

It does sound like that especially given the MAGA disdain for education. You know they have to dumb down the standards for them if they want to work for the FBI. At any rate, Trump wants loyalists not competent agents. That is the bottom line. God help us all.

I'm curious, JLW...what Democrat is it that you want to hold up as your shining example of what "higher education" does for people? AOC? Jasmine Crockett? Adam Schiff? Kamala Harris? Hakeem Jeffries? I hate to break this to you but that piece of paper you hang on the wall doesn't make you smart. It also doesn't make you competent. We're becoming a meritocracy again and that's not a bad thing.

 

[Correll]

Because "more excellent" is the Republicans getting their own police force which they can use to enter Democratic states.

What will your reaction be, if Trump's policy in dc results in saving hundreds of black lives?

 

[TimFitz]

Taking college courses doesn't qualify a person either.

Once upon a time, you had to be a lawyer to become an FBI agent.

 

[Correll]

Once upon a time, you had to be a lawyer to become an FBI agent.

That made sense, when colleges were not dominated by leftard assholes.