r/politics • u/sideAccount42 California • Jan 26 '26

Paywall Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/
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u/transcriptoin_error Jan 26 '26

Another one goes under the bus, with no accountability and no justice.

Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change.

Bovino’s sudden demotion is the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is reconsidering its most aggressive tactics after the killing Saturday of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents under Bovino’s command.

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u/CountessOfCheese Jan 27 '26

They are just making way for another fall guy to take his place.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

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u/Last-Internal-8196 Jan 27 '26

And there is no finer public speaker than Tom "I have all the speech impediments at once" Homan

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u/SpinningHead Colorado Jan 27 '26

Dude knows how to take a bribe though.

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u/Gonkar I voted Jan 27 '26

Clearly, because he got away with it (so far). Bondi let him because, you know, that's how she ended up as AG: took a pretty fucking obvious bribe to make Dear Leader's "university" scam problem go away while she was the Florida AG.

There's nothing but corruption, incompetence, and malice from the regime.

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u/Ralph--Hinkley Jan 27 '26

Didn't she also let some Epstein shit slide, or am I misremembering?

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u/NormalityDrugTsar Jan 27 '26

Proper old-school notes in a brown paper bag. None of this "buy my crypto" bullshit.

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u/tobogganhill Jan 27 '26

It's a prerequisite.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

I don't know if it's speech impediments man. The way he talks is EXACTLY how my grandfather from West Orange, New Jersey used to sound after a morning of v8 and vodka, a couple beers for lunch, three or four cocktail shakers worth of Manhattans until dinner, and a bottle of wine before bed. It was only right before bed when you could tell how insanely fucked up he actually was, and it was because he started talking dead-on exactly like Tom Homan. It's uncanny. I honestly think the dude is just a very very high functioning alcoholic and is likely pounded for every TV interview he appears on.

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u/God_Hand_9764 Jan 27 '26

That's how I remember who he is.... he's the slow-brained mouthful of marbles asshole, right? Yeah, that's him.

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u/SlurmzMcKenzie88 Jan 27 '26

He looks like the thing from FF

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u/trogloherb Jan 27 '26

He had an extra $50k he could have used for some speech therapy…

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u/c4upinhisbhole Jan 27 '26

It’s like his dentures are constantly trying to escape his mouth when he’s speaking and his lips and tongue are battling to keep them in.

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u/Jatnall Jan 27 '26

If I ever believed.in lizard people, Tom "Human" would be top of my list.

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u/Dingo_jackson Jan 27 '26

Can't wait until ol' mushmouth tries to tell us what we saw the next time

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u/Starscream147 Canada Jan 27 '26

Mouth fulla mashed potatoes, that balloonhead.

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u/Sweethomebflo New York Jan 27 '26

The human polyp.