DOJ, Federal Bureaucracy Terrified Of Incoming Trump Administration
Attorneys at the Department of Justice are apparently “terrified” and “losing their minds” over President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
Politico described a “collective sense of dread” that has taken over the DOJ since the 2024 election, with career attorneys “considering heading for the exits rather than sticking around to find out whether threats from Trump and his allies are real or campaign bluster.” The outlet listed those threats as “mass firings” and “expelling special counsel Jack Smith from the country.”
“Everyone I’ve talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds,” one DOJ attorney told the outlet. “The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they’re going to be driven out.”
Terrified Of Being Replaced
“Many federal employees are terrified that we’ll be replaced with partisan loyalists — not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service,” trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, Stacey Young, told Politico.
Smith and the DOJ immediately ended their cases against Trump after he won reelection, citing their policy that presidents cannot be prosecuted, according to Trending Politics’ co-owner Collin Rugg:
