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2024-05-21 Home Front: Politix
Report: Donald Trump Eyes DOJ, FBI Purge upon Reelection
[Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump will purge the administrative state by firing career bureaucrats from the DOJ and the FBI if he wins reelection, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters.

Trump repeatedly vowed to drain the administrative state or “deep state,” as he termed it, upon returning to office.

The term “administrative state” specifically describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies, including the national security apparatus, exercising power to create and enforce their own rules. The administrative state uses its rule-making ability or raw power to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government not formed by the Constitution.

Trump’s reported focus on overhauling the DOJ is predicated on his belief that career bureaucrats inside the administrative state improperly target conservatives, conservative groups, or conservative ideals with the help of the national security state or intelligence apparatus. Trump’s contention is buoyed by significant reporting on various controversies, such as the coronavirus, the Russia hoax, and the “laptop from hell.”

The next Trump administration would place new constraints on the DOJ’s authority by decentralizing its power to other law enforcement agencies, the sources told Reuters. The initiative is not a new idea among citizens concerned about the erosion of civil liberty.

Eliminating the FBI’s general counsel, an office that worked against Trump’s presidency and the investigation into the 2016 Russia hoax, would be first, two prominent Trump allies said.

The Biden campaign condemned the idea as Trump exacting revenge on political opponents who allegedly work for a non-partisan agency funded by taxpayers. Most conservatives agree that a president should have the power to fire and hire federal bureaucrats for cause.

Before Trump left office in 2021, he signed an executive order (EO) to reclassify federal government employees into Schedule F, which would have allowed the president to enhance accountability and job performance within the bureaucratic agencies. “You have some people that are protected that shouldn’t be protected,” Trump said in May.

Biden canceled the order when he assumed office in 2021, but if Trump reclaims the White House, he will reportedly reimplement the executive order and purge the unelected technocrats artificially running the federal government. “It would effectively upend the modern civil service, triggering a shock wave across the bureaucracy,” Axios previously concluded about the EO’s impact.

“The mere mention of Schedule F ensures that the bureaucracy moves in your direction,” Russell Vought, Trump’s former director of the Office of Management and Budget, previously told Time.

“The President never had a policy process that was designed to give him what he actually wanted and campaigned on,” he added. “[We are] sorting through the legal authorities, the mechanics, and providing the momentum for a future Administration.”

The administrative state appears terrified of a Trump victory in November. It is preparing for Trump to win reelection by implementing a surge of bureaucratic regulations before a deadline that renders them difficult to undue by a potential Trump administration.

The administrative state implemented 66 rules in just April alone, a number that is greater than any month since the Reagan administration, a Regulatory Studies Center analysis found. Biden’s administrative state published 111 more regulations than Trump implemented at the same point in his term, Axios reported. Many of the rules will protect the progressive agenda of “climate change,” such as limiting auto tailpipe emissions and forcing power plants to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

A potential Trump administration, via the Congressional Review Act, can reverse the rules implemented during an upcoming “lookback period.” When the “lookback period” begins in 2024 is murky, but Axios reported Biden’s deadline ranges between May 22 and September. Any rules put into action before the deadline cannot be reversed.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-21 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [265 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 

When Citizens can no longer trust their nations justice system to be fair, non-political, applied equally and their Election process is clearly fraudulent top to bottom. Then those Citizens tend to start to voice their objections in increasing ways.

Then, the Government elites typically go into a oppressive suppression mode against its citizenry to protect its own existence.

In a manner of Speaking TRUMP is that normal, common voters, voice against the DC Swamp.

An the DC Swamp is seriously worried about their continued unbridled existence and possible prison time for their deeds. To the point they are even openly flaunting their ability to circumvent the law, rights, and justice. All to protect their rule & agendas.




Posted by NN2N1 2024-05-21 05:56||   2024-05-21 05:56|| Front Page Top

#2 It will be a Mike Rowe level dirty job.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-21 07:57||   2024-05-21 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 State?
Treasury?
IRS?
CIA?
Posted by Lionel Uluck7609 2024-05-21 08:36||   2024-05-21 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Am I being asked to pick one ?
Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-21 08:59||   2024-05-21 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 All the alphabet agencies and government bureaucracy need to be slashed in an Argentina type move. At least a 40% reduction to start and several agencies like the ATF just need to be disbanded. By the time Trump leaves office, government shrunk by 60%, taxes and capital gains cut in half and roll back tons of regulations and you will see the economy roar back to life.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-05-21 09:14||   2024-05-21 09:14|| Front Page Top

#6  Musk had it right.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-21 09:16||   2024-05-21 09:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Cap taxes and gummint agecy headcounts.
Hard term limits for all elected and appointed officials. No open ended contracts for "contractors."
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-21 09:20||   2024-05-21 09:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, and very draconian anti-dynasty and anti nepotism laws.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-21 09:22||   2024-05-21 09:22|| Front Page Top

#9 However many people Trump fires in his first days in office, it needs to be double that.
Posted by Raj 2024-05-21 09:36||   2024-05-21 09:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Make it fun. Every ousted gummint functionary has to pick two other people from their department to also leave.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-21 09:45||   2024-05-21 09:45|| Front Page Top

#11 I think DV has it about right at #5. "Drill Baby Drill"..... and stand back.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-21 10:18||   2024-05-21 10:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Thank you for the Fonzi Musk picture.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-21 10:56||   2024-05-21 10:56|| Front Page Top

#13 /\ I hope he and the Orange Man are talking on a regular basis.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-21 10:59||   2024-05-21 10:59|| Front Page Top

#14 all constitutional amendments above 10 into the trash. add two...no discrimination based on color or shape of skin...all elections on paper ballots cast in person on day of election. Military no exception, they can vote in situ on national issues.
Posted by irish rage boy 2024-05-21 17:37||   2024-05-21 17:37|| Front Page Top

#15 Return everything in the Beltway to it's natural original condition. Then farm out what Constitutionally authorized departments of the Executive branch across the country. No state can have more than one.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-21 18:11||   2024-05-21 18:11|| Front Page Top

#16 I think they should build the FBI's new office complex, and staff it fully.
Then carpet bomb it.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-05-21 18:37||   2024-05-21 18:37|| Front Page Top

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