Media Ignores The Corruption In Trump Directed DOJ Firing Of Those Who Investigated Him
The Trump administration has fired a dozen DOJ staffers who worked with Jack Smith on the Trump investigations, which is blatant corruption.
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Trump Corruptly Fires Those Who Investigated Him
One of the crucial elements of any reporting on the Trump administration is the willingness to call corrupt acts of the current administration corruption. So far, the mainstream media has woefully failed to meet this standard.
After the Trump administration fired a dozen people who worked on the Jack Smith Trump investigations from the DOJ, here is how The Washington Post reported it:
Acting attorney general James McHenry informed the officials of their firings and said that he “does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”
The terminations are the latest example of the Trump administration reshaping the Justice Department since the inauguration last week, transferring or firing veteran career officials who the president’s allies believe would impede or interfere with their agenda.
McHenry terminated the employment of several DOJ officials “who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” a spokesman said in a statement.
Trump isn’t reshaping the Justice Department. He is destroying its independence.
It is not the role of the Department of Justice to carry out Donald Trump’s agenda. It would have been nice if one of the largest newspapers in the country would have bothered to mention that fact to its readers.
The actions taken by the Trump Department of Justice were corrupt. Those who care about the integrity and independence of the top federal law enforcement department in the United States should be outraged at the firing of these people who were doing their jobs.
The people who worked on the Joe Biden classified document special counsel investigation or the Hunter Biden special counsel investigation have not been fired. Only those who worked with Jack Smith on the Trump investigation have been let go.
At one time in the recent past, the mainstream media would have been outraged by this type of behavior by any presidential administration.
The George W. Bush firing of nine US Attorneys was a massive scandal in 2006 that even led to an Office Of Inspector General investigation that concluded:
We concluded that the process the Department used to select the U.S. Attorneys for removal was fundamentally flawed, and the oversight and implementation of the removal process by the Department’s most senior leaders was seriously lacking. In particular, we found that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty failed to adequately supervise the U.S. Attorney selection and removal process, and they were remarkably unengaged in the process.
Instead, Chief of Staff to the Attorney General Kyle Sampson, with very little input from other Department officials, designed, selected, and implemented the removal process, with little supervision or oversight. In addition, after the removals became public the statements provided by the Attorney General and other Department officials about the reasons for the removals were inconsistent, misleading, and inaccurate in many respects.
There will be no OIG investigation of the Jack Smith investigation firings because Trump fired the Justice Department IG.
The corruption is comprehensive, and our corporate media is unwilling to accept the challenge.
What do you think of the Trump firings and the corporate media response? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Garland should’ve never been confirmed he is a member of the federalist society. Took him two years to select Special Counsel Jack Smith. Makes me wonder did he ever intend to prosecute criminal DJT? Biden should have replaced him in 2022. I know Biden wasn’t happy with Garland, why didn’t he replace him?
The Washington Post is now wholly owned Trump subsidiary