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Miranda Devine: Trump is sending the Deep State to the outhouse as he cleans house at the FBI and DOJ
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nypost.com
By Miranda Devine
Published Feb. 2, 2025, 10:06 p.m. ET
It’s galling to hear sleazy Democrats like Rep. Jamie Raskin and self-serving government bureaucrats whine about “due process” as Donald Trump sets about cleaning house in the out-of-control administrative state.
Last time Trump was president, he and his appointees were sabotaged and obstructed by Machiavellian Deep-Staters who perverted concepts such as “due process” into protective shields around wrongdoers and turned them into weapons against their adversaries — that is, anyone trying to carry out the wishes of the democratically elected president.
That won’t be happening again. It’s called democracy.
The FBI raided Trump’s home and rummaged through his wife’s underwear drawer. They tried to lock him up and bankrupt him. They rounded up his supporters and advisers and threw them in jail.
He was forced to spend 60% of his time and tens of millions of dollars fighting the lawfare waged against him.
So don’t talk about “due process” to Trump.
Heads are spinning in Washington at the shock and awe tactics of Trump 2.0. You can hear the panic in the high pitch of Deep State voices as they run squealing to CNN and MSNBC.
Cleaning house
Vile ex-CIA Director John Brennan was practically hyperventilating last week as he railed against the fact that he and the rest of the Dirty 51 have been stripped of their security clearances and banned from federal buildings.
Those 51 ex-spooks, including five former CIA directors or acting directors, knew exactly what they were doing when they signed a letter falsely claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation: using the esteem of their former high positions to give Joe Biden a get-out-of-jail free card in the final debate against Trump.
They just never expected that they would be held accountable.
You can almost hear the rumbling thunder in Washington as accountability comes calling.
At FBI headquarters Thursday at midday, while TVs in most offices were tuned to the Senate confirmation hearing of incoming FBI Director Kash Patel, all six of the FBI’s most senior executives were marched out of the building on the orders of acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, one of Trump’s former lawyers.
“It was a huge demonstration” of how power has shifted, says Steven Friend, who has been suspended without pay for 29 months in retaliation for exposing the manipulation of Jan. 6 case files at FBI headquarters to inflate domestic terrorism statistics.
He was forced out of the FBI and stripped of his security clearance after he objected to participating in unconstitutional SWAT raids on J6 suspects accused of misdemeanors.
On Friday, multiple heads of FBI field offices across the country also were forced onto leave, including in Washington, DC, and Miami, which conducted the Mar a Lago raid. Federal prosecutors involved in the Trump and J6 cases also reportedly were suspended.
That gave them the weekend to decide whether or not to accept the administration’s offer to federal employees of “deferred resignations” with eight months’ pay.
“It’s 4D chess. I’m all here for it,” says Friend, who is hoping to get his job back, but not with the same bosses. He and his group of FBI whistleblowers, who call themselves “the Suspendables,” have been passing on to the administration names of good candidates to replenish the ranks.
“It’s going to require capable, experienced agents just stepping into leadership. The people occupying these spots now are just career climbers with almost zero experience.”
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Miranda Devine: Trump is sending the Deep State to the outhouse as he cleans house at the FBI and DOJ
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Sabotaged
Meanwhile, Elon Musk and his DOGE strike force of high-IQ insomniacs have moved fast to take over the core processes of the federal government: the payments system at Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management.
They also have their sights set on corrupt government agencies such as the US Agency for International Development which, as anti-digital censorship guru Mike Benz points out, has nothing to do with “aiding” anyone in the humanitarian sense but serves more as a mechanism for funding covert foreign influence operations to advance liberal agendas, such as undermining the socially conservative Hungarian government.
Two top USAid security officials reportedly were suspended on “administrative” leave Saturday night after trying to block access to DOGE staffers.
One was John Voorhees, the head of the Office of Security, who was instrumental in 2019 in forcing out Mark Moyar, the Trump-appointed director of USAid’s office of civilian-military cooperation who had uncovered endemic fraud, corruption and waste at the agency.
Moyar, now a military history professor at Hillsdale College, detailed the Kafkaesque administrative sabotage of his efforts to clean up the agency in “Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency.” His 2024 book is believed to be being used as a blueprint for reform at USAid.
Moyar was forced out by the well-worn Deep State tactic of using anonymous false allegations to get his security clearance revoked.
In this case, the accusation was that he had disclosed classified information in his previous book, but no evidence or specifics were ever produced. Talk about “due process.”
“Security bureaucrats and lawyers decided they could make up rules and issue legal judgments without regard for the Constitution or the powers it conferred on Congress and the judicial branch,” Moyar complains.
“They ran roughshod over the free speech protections of the First Amendment, the search-and-seizure provisions of the Fourth Amendment, the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment, along with federal whistleblower protection laws and court rulings on publication rights.”
Weekend warrior
When Moyar sought help from the inspectors general at USAid and the Department of Defense he said they “conducted bogus ‘investigations’ generating no evidence and clearing the government of any wrongdoing.” Other whistleblowers faced the same betrayal. Hence Trump’s firing of 17 inspectors general.
Musk appears to be employing the same tactics as he did when he first took over Twitter and reduced the workforce by 80% with little discernable difference to the service.
His team has reportedly set up sofa beds so they can stay in the offices 24/7.
“Working the weekend is a superpower,” Musk posted to X on Saturday.
“Very few in the bureaucracy actually work the weekend, so it’s like the opposing team just leaves the field for 2 days!”
Washington has woken from a deep slumber and is operating on Trump Time now. Four years of action have been compressed into two weeks and will only accelerate.
Dems and their media apparatchiks don’t know how to cope as all their sacred cows are annihilated one by one.
Rachel Maddow is focusing on self-care. Joy Reid is frothing at the mouth. Jim Acosta and Chuck Todd are simply out of work and CNN panelists are left with mouths agape and egg dripping down their faces as token Republican Scott Jennings pricks their bubbles.
The Deep State will strike back, for sure, but this timeTrump is ready.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/02/opinion/trump-is-sending-the-deep-state-to-the-outhouse-as-he-cleans-house-at-the-fbi-and-doj/
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With tariffs, Trump wields leverage and sows disruption like no other U.S. president
By Linda Feldmann Staff writer
csmonitor.com
Feb. 03, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | Washington
In short order, President Donald Trump has proved every bit the disrupter he pledged to be in a second term.
He has launched a trade war with the United States’ neighbors and largest trading partners – warning Americans they may feel “some pain,” but if so, it’s “worth the price.” He has allowed ally Elon Musk and his team access to the Treasury Department’s multi-trillion-dollar payment system. He got Venezuela to release U.S. hostages and receive deported migrants, while revoking the protected status of more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the U.S.
And that’s all since Friday. It’s a new day in Washington, as Mr. Trump aggressively pursues an “America First” agenda and smaller government during a second term that’s barely two weeks old.
His three executive orders Feb. 1 imposing tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China, while long promised, shocked the world with their scope and potential economic disruption. The move shows the president embracing the role of economic risk-taker, despite the uncertainties that creates for the global economy, for U.S. leadership, and for his own popularity. The goal, says the White House fact sheet on the new orders, is to bring down the perennially massive U.S. trade deficit, halt illegal immigration via both the southern and northern U.S. borders, and stop fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into the country. China is a major producer and exporter of precursor chemicals used to make the deadly synthetic opioid.
But Mr. Trump’s tariffs pose dangers. Mexico’s already slowing economy could go into recession, experts say. Economic growth in Canada, too, could plunge into negative territory. In the U.S., the move could boost inflation, already above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, as the cost of tariffs is often passed along to consumers. Bringing down inflation was a top Trump campaign promise.
Under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA – a free-trade deal Mr. Trump negotiated during his first term – the three countries’ economies are deeply intertwined, particularly in the agricultural, automotive, and energy industries. But beginning Tuesday, Mexico and Canada both face tariffs of 25% on exports to the U.S., except for a 10% tariff on Canadian energy. China, the world’s second largest economy, faces new U.S. tariffs of 10% – in addition to existing tariffs dating back to Mr. Trump’s first term that are as high as 50%, and that caused hardship for American farmers who required government bailouts.
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https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0203/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada