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Are anons ready for the final battle? The stage is set and the proper people are in place. This was not done for nothing. Nothing can stop what is coming.

TOPLINE A widely anticipated purge of top government officials considered insufficiently loyal to President Trump is underway, with at least 12 high-ranking members of the administration leaving their positions—both voluntarily and involuntarily—in the weeks following Election Day.

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KEY FACTS

Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is the latest casualty, who Trump fired Nov. 17 after his agency released a statement refuting the president’s claims of widespread voter fraud.

Two other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials—Bryan Ware, CISA’s assistant director, and Valerie Boyd, the DHS’s assistant secretary of international affairs—were also forced out of their positions last week, per reports.

The Defense Department’s chief of staff, Jen Stewart, was replaced on Nov. 10 by former Rep. Devin Nunes staffer Kash Patel, who played a role in helping Republicans discredit the Russia probe.

Also on Nov. 10, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense Joseph Kernan, a retired Navy SEAL, and the Pentagon’s top policy official James Anderson both resigned from their positions, though they were more likely pressured out—Politico reported that Anderson had fallen out of favor after pushing back against a White House attempt to install several Trump loyalists at the Defense Department.

These Pentagon departures came a day after Trump fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who, though initially derided as “Yesper” for his compliance with the White House’s wishes, angered Trump over the summer by opposing the deployment of active-duty troops to quell street protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death, and for pushing for the renaming of military installations named after Confederate generals.

The head of the Department of Justice’s election crime branch Richard Pilger, who has held the role for 10 years, resigned on Nov. 9 in protest of Attorney General Bill Barr’s memo authorizing investigations of “substantial allegations” of voter fraud before the results of the current election are certified, which contradicts the DOJ’s long-standing guidance designed to prevent the department from interfering with elections.

Between Nov. 6 and Nov. 8, the Trump administration also quietly fired the heads of the three federal agencies overseeing nuclear weapons, electricity and natural gas regulation, and overseas aid: Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration; Bonne Glick, the deputy administrator of the U.S. agency for International Development; and Neil Chatterjee, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who said his dismissal could “perhaps” be retaliation for recent actions promoting an agency response to climate change.

The Trump administration also removed Michael Kuperberg, the scientist who oversees climate change for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, Nov. 6, with The New York Times reporting that people familiar with the changes expect the position to be given to a climate change skeptic.

CRUCIAL QUOTE

“Buckle your seatbelts. The next few months could get bumpy,” wrote Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin after Glick was fired, declaring “Trump’s post-election purge has begun.”

KEY BACKGROUND

Numerous publications, citing anonymous sources close to the president, have warned that many top officials who have frustrated the president could be removed in the coming weeks as the Trump administration pursues a last-ditch effort to complete its agenda. The New York Times reported that public health officials in particular may be targeted, while CNN puts CIA Director Gina Haspel and FBI Director Christopher Wray, who Trump has openly expressed his anger toward, at the front of the firing line.

CHIEF CRITIC

“Who’s going to come in behind me? It’s going to be a real ‘yes man.’ And then God help us,” said Esper during a Nov. 4 interview with the Military Times.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/11/18/trumps-post-election-purge-head-of-election-cybersecurity-11-other-top-officials-out/?sh=65c70ccc2e69