Trump Admin Shuts Down Greg Bovino’s Social Media Accounts After He Refused To Hand Them Back: Report

Former Customs and Border Patrol "commander astatine large" Greg Bovino has had each of his charismatic authorities societal media accounts unopen down aft he refused to move them complete to nan national government, according to a caller report.

Bovino became nan face of President Donald Trump's anti-immigration raids successful alleged “sanctuary cities” successful 2025, and built a societal media beingness astir his self-administered “commander-at-large” title. He stepped down from his domiciled aft nationwide backlash to Trump’s migration raids and nan shooting deaths of 2 protesters, Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Bovino was progressive connected societal media, particularly X, but besides connected Facebook and Instagram, which together had immoderate 850,000 followers. After taking complete arsenic "commander astatine large" of nan agents sent into Los Angeles to behaviour migrant raids, he began posting flash societal media videos hyping up nan actions of ICE and Border Patrol agents while infuriating advocates for migrant communities and those who had been connected nan receiving extremity of DHS enforcement.

The accounts he utilized to beforehand himself and nan agencies really belonged to nan Border Patrol's El Centro, California, location office.

On Thursday, nan accounts were shuttered, according to a Washington Examiner report.

“Chief Patrol Agent Bovino has retired from national work and nary longer has entree to charismatic authorities societal media accounts,” a spokesperson from U.S. Customs and Border Protection wrote successful an email to nan Examiner connected Friday.

The outlet said to 5 group acquainted pinch nan conflict betwixt Bovino and nan national authorities complete nan societal media account.

One root told nan Examiner that Border Patrol Commissioner Rodney Scott “gave Bovino a nonstop bid to return nan pages/accounts names to bespeak El Centro Sector and that caller accounts would beryllium created.”

Bovino was reportedly upset because he believed he had grown nan relationship and that nan followers were location for him, not for nan El Centro Sector. He wanted to support his societal media follower count high.

“Bovino refused, arguing that nan followers were his. He said he earned nan followers and that his followers expected him to station from caller cities,” nan root said. “It was each astir Greg Bovino getting attraction and thing else.”

On August 4, Bovino posted an announcement connected his accounts, noting that he was changing nan sanction of an charismatic authorities relationship to bespeak his role.

"The @USBPChiefELC Facebook page will beryllium changing names to 'Gregory K. Bovino, Commander-Operation At Large CA' - @CommanderOpAtLargeCA," he wrote astatine nan time. "Moving forward, each contented posted present will beryllium related to Operation astatine Large successful Los Angeles, CA."

No different Border Patrol region main has ever renamed a location societal media relationship to bespeak their persona assignment.

Another root told nan Examiner that erstwhile Bovino was told to springiness up nan accounts, he said, "Those are my followers, truthful I'm taking them pinch me."

Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trump's 2016 run head and a typical worker for erstwhile DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, allegedly protected Bovino from CBP's push to reclaim his societal media, according to nan sources.

“Corey prevented nan Commissioner from taking immoderate action against Bovino, truthful that conscionable empowered Bovino and his ego moreover more,” a 3rd root told nan paper. “Ever wonderment why [Border Patrol] put boats connected nan stream successful Chicago? Bovino was consenting to make agents literal sitting ducks conscionable for nan photograph op.”

While Bovino was dabbling arsenic a societal media influencer, nan El Centro region was near without an relationship to station news astir developments there. The CBP allowed it to create 3 caller accounts — 1 connected Facebook, 1 connected X, and 1 connected Instagram — to station updates. But that meant starting caller pinch zero followers and frankincense a diminished expertise to stock news widely.

An charismatic claimed that Bovino's determination to return nan societal media relationship for himself "damaged" nan El Centro region's expertise to pass pinch nan nationalist and nan media.

Bovino near his "commander astatine large" domiciled aft nan fatal shootings of 2 protesters by DHS agents successful Minnesota. He retired 2 months later.

The Independent has requested remark from Bovino.