Trump’s Housecleaning: Purging the Deep State from the FBI and DOJ

It’s frustrating to witness disingenuous Democrats like Rep. Jamie Raskin and self-serving bureaucrats complain about “due process” while Donald Trump seeks to reform the chaotic administrative state.

During Trump’s previous presidency, he and his appointed officials faced continuous sabotage from manipulative Deep Staters, who twisted concepts like “due process” to create shields for wrongdoers, weaponizing them against anyone attempting to fulfill the mandate of the democratically elected president.

That won’t repeat itself. This is what democracy looks like.

The FBI invaded Trump’s residence, rummaging through personal belongings. They attempted to imprison him and financially ruin him, detaining his supporters and advisers.

He ended up allocating 60% of his time and tens of millions of dollars battling the legal warfare directed at him.

So spare us the talk of “due process” directed at Trump.

Reactions in Washington are frantic as they react to the shocking and awe-inspiring strategies of Trump 2.0. The heightened tone of Deep State officials can be heard as they scurry to CNN and MSNBC.

Housecleaning

Former CIA Director John Brennan was nearly hyperventilating last week, lamenting the loss of security clearances and being barred from federal buildings, alongside the rest of the Dirty 51, who have been stripped of their privileges.

These 51 former intelligence officials, including five former CIA heads, understood their actions when they signed a letter falsely asserting that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a product of Russian disinformation: they leveraged their esteemed former positions to shield Joe Biden in the final debate against Trump.

They simply didn’t foresee being held responsible for their actions.

You can almost feel the rumbling storm in Washington as accountability approaches.

On Thursday afternoon at FBI headquarters, televisions were tuned to the Senate confirmation hearing of incoming FBI Director Kash Patel while all six of the FBI’s senior executives were escorted out by Emil Bove, acting Deputy Attorney General and a former attorney for Trump.

“It was a significant show of how power has shifted,” states Steven Friend, who has been suspended unpaid for 29 months in retaliation for revealing the manipulation of January 6 case files at FBI headquarters to inflate domestic terrorism crime figures.

Friend was removed from the FBI and lost his security clearance after resisting participating in unconstitutional SWAT raids against January 6 suspects charged with misdemeanors.

On Friday, several leaders of FBI field offices from across the nation, including Washington, DC, and Miami, which led the Mar-a-Lago raid, were also placed on leave. In addition, federal prosecutors involved in the Trump and January 6 cases reportedly were suspended.

This gave them the weekend to contemplate accepting the administration’s offer of “deferred resignations” with an eight-month payout.

“It’s a game of 4D chess. I’m all in,” Friend expresses, hoping for reinstatement, but not under the current leadership. He and his group of FBI whistleblowers, calling themselves “the Suspendables,” are providing the administration with names of suitable candidates to replenish the department.

“It requires skilled and experienced agents stepping into leadership roles. Those currently in those positions are merely career climbers with minimal expertise.”

Sabotaged

Meanwhile, Elon Musk and his DOGE initiative are rapidly taking over essential government functions: the Treasury’s payment systems and the Office of Personnel Management.

They also aim to reform corrupt agencies like the US Agency for International Development, which, as anti-digital censorship advocate Mike Benz highlights, specializes more in funding covert foreign influence campaigns rather than genuine humanitarian aid, such as eroding the socially conservative Hungarian government.

Two senior USAID security officials were reportedly put on “administrative” leave over the weekend after attempting to obstruct access to DOGE representatives.

One of these individuals was John Voorhees, the director of the Office of Security, who played a crucial role in removing Mark Moyar, the Trump-appointed chief of USAID’s office of civilian-military cooperation in 2019, who had revealed widespread fraud and corruption within the agency.

Moyar, now a military history professor at Hillsdale College, documented the bureaucratic sabotage he faced in his book “Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency,” which is believed to serve as a reform blueprint at USAID.

He was forced out via the Deep State’s typical tactic of anonymous, baseless allegations aimed at revoking his security clearance.

In this instance, the claim was that he disclosed classified information in his earlier book, yet no evidence or specifics were ever established. Now that’s an example of “due process.”

“Security bureaucrats and attorneys decided to create arbitrary rules and issue legal decisions that disregarded the Constitution and the powers granted to Congress and the judiciary,” Moyar complains.

“They trampled over First Amendment free speech protections, Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure rules, Fifth Amendment due process rights, and Sixth Amendment confrontation rights, as well as federal whistleblower protections and judicial determinations on publication rights.”

Weekend warrior

When Moyar sought assistance from the inspectors general at USAID and the Department of Defense, he described how they “conducted sham ‘investigations’ that yielded no evidence and cleared the government of any wrongdoing.” Other whistleblowers encountered similar betrayals, prompting Trump to dismiss 17 inspectors general.

Musk seems to be adopting similar tactics as he did upon taking over Twitter, when he cut the workforce by 80% with negligible impact on service.

Reports indicate that his team has installed sofa beds to facilitate overnight work in the offices.

“Weekend work is a superpower,” Musk tweeted on Saturday.

“Very few in the bureaucracy actually work during the weekend, so it’s as if the opposing team just vacates the field for two days!”

Washington has awakened from a deep slumber, now operating on Trump Time. Four years of action have been compacted into two weeks and are poised to accelerate.

Democrats and their media allies are struggling to adjust as their cherished icons are systematically dismantled.

Rachel Maddow is concentrating on self-care. Joy Reid is outraged. Jim Acosta and Chuck Todd are simply unemployed, while CNN panelists are left dumbfounded and embarrassed as token Republican Scott Jennings punctures their bubbles.

The Deep State will undoubtedly counterattack, but this time, Trump is prepared.