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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Andrea Tode Jimenez

Who Is Thomas Fugate? Trump's New Anti-Terror Lead May Be America's Most Underqualified Official

Thomas C. Fugate (Credit: Image via United States Department of Homeland Security)

In one of the most bizarre appointments of his presidency, Donald Trump has named 22-year-old Thomas C. Fugate III as the new head of the US Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), a division tasked with combatting domestic extremism.

Fugate, who only graduated from university in 2024 and was mowing lawns and working retail at H-E-B a year ago, is now in charge of shaping federal strategies to prevent radicalisation and domestic terror threats.

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