President-elect Donald Trump signalled he might investigate the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Office of Diversity, and Inclusion, demanding the agency “preserve and retain all records, documents” after the organization shuttered the office the month after Trump’s election win.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has closed it's Office of Diversity, and Inclusion just before President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office. The post JUST IN: FBI Shuttered DEI Office Ahead of Trump’s Inauguration first appeared on Mediaite.

The development comes at a time when Trump and other Republican leaders have been increasingly critical of government agencies prioritising diversity, equity and inclusion over national security

"In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, effective by December 2024," the bureau said.

Trump claimed that the DEI office, which the FBI actually calls the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI), should never have been opened and alleged that it was closed before his return because of corruption within the bureau.

The FBI confirmed to Fox News Digital that the agency closed its office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in December.

Following a string of major U.S. companies, including Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, backing away from DEI policies, the FBI announced without explanation on Thursday that it had closed the agency’s DEI department in December.

President-elect Donald Trump has cried foul over the FBI shuttering its diversity, equity and inclusion wing just before his return to the White House. Trump and his MAGA allies have long railed against DEI,

The FBI closed its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office in December last year, a month after Donald Trump’s election victory.