Former President Donald Trump arrives at Aberdeen Airport on May 1, 2023 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Trump slammed the FBI and DOJ, calling for arrests over the Steele dossier. (Credit: Jeff Mitchell/Getty)
Some federal bureaucrats under the Biden-Harris administration are reportedly preparing to make their exit now that President-elect Donald Trump secured a historic victory on Tuesday.
Officials in the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are reportedly looking for other jobs, Blaze News said on Friday.
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In March 2023, Trump announced that on day one, he would reissue his 2020 executive order establishing the Schedule F employment category for federal employees, making it easier to remove insubordinate and poorly performing bureaucrats from an estimated pool of 50,000 eligible candidates.
President Joe Biden revoked Trump’s Schedule F in January 2021 and announced a rule earlier this year aimed at further shielding federal bureaucrats from accountability and from being ousted under a framework resembling Schedule F.
Although it would be difficult to reverse the rule, Trump has promised to clean house and move out officials accused of targeting Americans.
Blaze News investigative journalist Steve Baker said DOJ and FBI officials are worried Trump will fulfill his vow to be “retribution” for citizens who were apparently wrongfully targeted.
Trump said in 2023 to a CPAC audience, “In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”
Baker said:
We know that this panic is happening at the assistant U.S. attorney level and at the U.S. attorney level. These guys are already planning their exits. They know that their days are numbered. They are looking for their golden parachutes into the big, high-power law firms. They’re getting the hell out of dodge.