Trump Had Them Removed… DOJ Shakeup

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Donald Trump’s first few days in office were pretty eventful.

Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi has yet to be confirmed, but the Department of Justice is already going through a huge makeover.

According to reports, more than a dozen officials have been reassigned or relieved of duty, some of whom were responsible for the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

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Democrats have already been giving Bondi a hard time during her confirmation hearing, and Trump surely did not make her life any easier with these moves.

One of the big questions that Bondi had faced from numerous Democrats was about Donald Trump’s plans to pardon all the J6 defendants.

Trump did not even wait for Bondi to take office before issuing a blanket pardon for more than 1,500 of them.

Next, Trump had been shuffling personnel around in the DOJ, most notably removing Deputy Assistant Attorney General George Toscas from his post and reassigning him to Office of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement.

Toscas reportedly played a significant role in the Mar-a-Lago raid, even calling out his superiors who were hesitant to go after a former president.

Toscas allegedly told the former head of the FBI Washington Field Office, Steven D’Antuono, “You and your leadership seem to have gone from cautious to fearful.”

That is a new office that the Trump administration set up to fight sanctuary city laws preventing ICE from being able to deport criminal migrants.

Bondi’s confirmation vote in the Senate is currently scheduled for January 29, so I am curious to see how this impacts the vote, especially considering she was expected to more or less coast through before the pardons and shuffling of DOJ personnel.

I am hoping Dems put their feelings about Trump aside on this one because I believe Bondi will be an exceptional Attorney General.

In a way, it is probably better that Trump did all this before she took her post because he has managed to remove her from the equation.

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