Friday, January 31, 2025

Trump 2.0 - capture the justice and investigative arms of government

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Several top FBI executives promoted by former Director Christopher Wray were told Thursday to resign or retire and that they will be demoted or reassigned if they don’t leave.

The purge of senior officials includes about a half-dozen “executive assistant directors,” who are some of the bureau’s top managers overseeing criminal, national security and cyber investigations. They are career civil servants, meaning they can't be fired without cause.

  NBC
Apparently they can.
A current FBI official told NBC News that the move would be “hugely disruptive,” while a former official who is talking to people at the FBI said there’s a lot of anger because the affected employees aren’t considered political figures in any way.
That's why they're being removed.
Trump fired 18 inspectors general last week, including watchdogs for the State, Defense and Labor departments and the Department of Health and Human Services.

[...]

The Trump administration has also fired career attorneys at the Justice Department who were involved in prosecuting him, raising alarms over his making good on threats of retribution against those who have challenged his conduct.
UPDATE 08:42 pm:


So I assume he got shitcanned.  Also, that's not a look I would have expected to see on a Feeb.  He looks like someone named General Beauregard.


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