Donald Trump was at war with Justice Department bureaucrats in his first term.
This time around he’s looking for smoother sailing.
And Biden’s Justice Department is plotting one dirty trick to undermine Donald Trump’s Presidency.
Merrick Garland tries to convince career Justice Department employees to stay
The occupant of the White House changes in Washington, D.C. but the career employees who man the federal bureaucracy remain the same.
President-elect Donald Trump battled with unelected career bureaucrats during his first term that worked to undermine his administration.
It appeared that things were going to be different in his second term.
Trump was armed with the knowledge of his first term and a plan to remove career employees from federal agencies with an executive order Schedule F that would reclassify many of them as political appointees to make them easier to fire.
He nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his Attorney General to go into the Justice Department and clean house.
The media ran stories that many of the career employees of the Justice Department were thinking about leaving or taking retirement instead of dealing with the Trump administration.
Attorney General Merrick Garland is trying to convince the Justice Department’s career employees to stick it out, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Garland and his henchmen are trying to convince these employees to stick around for “continuity of government and for their expertise.”
He wants more potential attorneys to stay to sabotage the Trump Justice Department.
Change is coming to the Justice Department under Trump
The change in Presidential administrations always results in the turnover of some employees at the Justice Department and other federal agencies.
Legal recruiter Steven Nelson recruits government lawyers for the private sector.
He told the Journal that he’s never seen anything like what’s happening now at the Justice Department.
“The number of people leaving, or looking at opportunities outside the Justice Department or elsewhere in the government, is way higher than it’s ever been before,” Nelson said.
Nelson has seen an uptick in career Justice Department attorneys exploring opportunities in the private sector.
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office is filled with Justice Department employees who are looking to get out rather than face any potential prosecutions under the Trump administration.
Smith had both of his sham criminal cases against Trump over January 6 and classified documents dismissed over a longstanding Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting President.
Trump Justice Department transition official Mark Paoletta told career employees to support the President-elect’s agenda or leave.
“Career Justice Department lawyers must be fully committed to implementing President Trump’s policies or they should leave or be fired,” Paoletta wrote on X.
Bondi is ready to deal with any problem children in the Justice Department head-on when she becomes Attorney General.
“The Department of Justice, the prosecutors, will be prosecuted, the bad ones,” Bondi told Fox News last year. “The investigators will be investigated. We can clean house next term, and that’s what has to happen.”
Donald Trump is preparing to avoid a repeat of one of the biggest problems of his first administration.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
