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After Months Of Withering Criticism, Trump Prepares To Visit FBI

President Trump is preparing to appear at a graduation ceremony for a new class of FBI employees Friday. The visit will be complicated, given months of blistering criticism of the agency on Twitter.
President Trump is visiting the FBI on Friday for a graduation ceremony.

President Trump is traveling to Quantico, Va., on Friday to speak with an unlikely audience: the latest graduating class at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

It's not unusual for a president to shower love on his FBI agents and intelligence analysts. President Obama a few months after he took office in 2009, donning an FBI baseball cap."

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