Many DOJ Employees Are Terrified Of Trump’s Return

This just makes me laugh and drink tears

Many in government are worried about Trump’s return. At DOJ, they’re terrified.

A collective sense of dread has taken hold at the Department of Justice, which drew Donald Trump’s rage like no other part of the federal government during his campaign.

Some career attorneys at DOJ are already considering heading for the exits rather than sticking around to find out whether threats from Trump and his allies are real or campaign bluster. Those threats range from mass firings of “deep state” lawyers to expelling special counsel Jack Smith from the country.

“Everyone I’ve talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds,” said one DOJ attorney, who like most of the people interviewed for this article was granted anonymity to speak freely about colleagues and avoid retribution from the president-elect and his allies. “The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they’re going to be driven out.”

While alarm over Trump’s return is widespread throughout the federal bureaucracy, it is perhaps most acute at the Justice Department, which was at the center of many of the major controversies of his first term. (snip)

But department veterans say those events pale in comparison to what they expect when Trump gets a second chance to try to remake the DOJ in his vision. They also know Trump’s anger at the department has only deepened in the past four years as it launched two unprecedented criminal prosecutions against him.

If they were doing their jobs properly and not being partisan activists they wouldn’t be concerned, right? No one involved in weaponizing the DOJ against Trump and Republicans should be concerned. Justice should be blind, not a member of the Democratic Party. Citizens engaged in Wrongthink should not be fearful of the DOJ coming after them. They shouldn’t be scared that the DOJ will pursue them for years for daring to wander around the Capitol Building, causing no harm, no damage, no threat, while those who attempted to burn down a federal justice center in Portland are virtually ignored. If they can spy on a president-elect, they can spy on you. If they are willing to threaten states for passing state laws that have no bearing on federal law (remember, the DOJ enforces federal law), what can they do to you? If they can raid a former president and tear his home up they can do that to you. They’ve intimidated parents, deemed non-liberals as extremists, even put Tulsi Gabbard on a no-fly list.

The DOJ should not be acting as the personal police force of Democrats

And then, in early November, the DOJ’s Southern District of New York had the FBI execute pre-dawn search warrants at two homes of journalists believed to be in possession of a diary belonging to Biden’s adult daughter. What isn’t clear, based on facts known publicly, is why the president’s daughter’s diary would be a matter of federal investigative interest, particularly in light of the journalists’ claimed efforts to return the diary to both Ashley Biden and law enforcement prior to the searches.

By now, Biden must feel pretty confident that the DOJ is his personal police force. Outrage over its tactics has been muted and the attorney general doesn’t push back. So it’s no surprise that the administration invented DOJ superpowers this past week to intimidate politicians who hold different views.

And the media yawned. And the DOJ employees who have gone to the dark side should be terrified of being terminated or at least allowed to resign.

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