Biden Rushes to Oust Trump Loyalists

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2021/01/27/biden-rushes-to-oust-trump-loyalists/


Biden Rushes to Oust Trump Loyalists
January 27, 2021 at 1:56 pm EST By Taegan Goddard

“When President Biden swore in a batch of recruits for his new administration in a teleconferenced ceremony late last week, it looked like the country’s biggest Zoom call. In fact, Mr. Biden was installing roughly 1,000 high-level officials in about a quarter of all of the available political appointee jobs in the federal government,” the New York Times reports.

“At the same time, a far less visible transition was taking place: the quiet dismissal of holdovers from the Trump administration, who have been asked to clean out their offices immediately, whatever the eventual legal consequences.”

“If there has been a single defining feature of the first week of the Biden administration, it has been the blistering pace at which the new president has put his mark on what President Donald J. Trump dismissed as the hostile ‘Deep State’ and tried so hard to dismantle.”

[Mme. Defarge]

1. Formidable!

Hallelujah!

[Thekaspervote]

13. Formidable indeed!! Thank the gods

[ellie]

2. Good!

[Me.]

3. Fabulous

[TheBlackAdder]

27. Put his portrait where it belongs, skeezing 👀 outside of the ladies restroom.

[former9thward]

4. He has not fired any of the Trump U.S. Attorneys.

I wonder why? Obama and Clinton fired them on day one.

[NCjack]

5. Don't delay on firing the Trumpster IGs.

[Blue_true]

7. Large numbers of them resigned before President Biden took over.

Man, it is so nice to feel good when I capitalize “President”. The ex had me spelling it with a small “p”.

[former9thward]

8. No, not the US Attorneys.

[mac2766]

50. small p....

Very nice. And I'm sure representative.

Who hates Donald J. (fer jeanyus) Trump?

Me.

You?

[Blue_true]

51. I simply could not stomach that that imbecile was president.

He made all of us, even the ones who didn’t vote for him, look like complete thoughtless asses.

[StarfishSaver]

16. They're probably waiting for the AG to be confirmed. Also they're probably

getting their replacements lined up so they have some stability. And most of the people who could replace them as acting were probably also appointed by Trump.

And, if it's any consolation, all of the USAs now report to Biden's DOJ and can't make a move without HQ's approval, so they can't do any damage, so there 's no need to rush - at least there's no need to wipe everyone out one week in.

[world wide wally]

6. I knew he would kick ass and take names,,,,

Not his first trip around the block

[KPN]

9. To be honest, I am surprised to say that I think

Joe Biden is the perfect person for the time. He kind of reminds me of Harry Truman — though Harry was a bit before my time. In another time, Joe might not be the person he is now, but I can’t think of anyone who would be better.

[Nasruddin]

30. Differences

Mr Biden is far, far better prepared to be president than Mr Truman was.

[KPN]

31. I'm sure you are right. The evidence so far certainly says so. His

frankness as well as toughness reminds me of what I know about Truman. Admittedly, I don’t know an awful lot. It’s basically just my impressions, and my impressions of Truman are pretty good overall.

[fwvinson]

54. He had 8 years of training

[Hekate]

10. Joe Biden rocks

[orangecrush]

11. OUT, TRAITORS!

[wnylib]

15. Yes, to paraphrase the line from MacBeth,

"Out, out, damn traitors!"

[orangecrush]

17. Joe going wild on Trump loyalists

[PlanetBev]

12. Excellent

Linda Tripp was a holdover from the Bush administration. She was a well known gossip, so they shifted her into another post where they thought she would do no harm. We all know how that went.

[Jon King]

14. Biden and his team are Trumpers worst nightmare...

They were there for 8 years and have plenty of inside sources. They knew who had to be fired long before the inauguration. And they knew the quickest way to get them out.

[wnylib]

18. This is why we needed President Biden

as our candidate and president. His knowledge, experience, and commitment to the country and to good governance are priceless.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Looks like "sleepy" Joe has not even taken a nap. ;)

Keep cleaning out the rats, Mr. President.

[greenjar_01]

24. They better hope he doesn't wake up, way he's kicking their asses sleeping!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. Many people are saying ...

Someone amongst the Gangsters Of Putin may have said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

[BComplex]

37. Gangsters of Putin (GOP) !!! I like it!

Pooties, every one.

[erronis]

46. Energizer Joe! I wish I had his mojo!

[Traildogbob]

20. Wow

I did not realize he could oust congress people and senate people. McCarthy is a good start being he is B lining to trump tomorrow. About as fucked as the gang going to Moscow on the 4th.

[Kota]

40. He cant oust congress people, just his administration, white house staff.

[Traildogbob]

42. I know that.

Just fun to think Trump loyalist could be targeted. All of em.
Only Dems get forced out of Congress for photos.

[SunSeeker]

21. Yes! Purge those traitors!

Even if they were seditious, they're still utterly incompetent and have no business being in government.

[msfiddlestix]

22. outfreakingstanding

A part of me is really surprised at the pace, but whatever, I'm freaking thrilled and uplifted by this news

[onetexan]

34. I attribute this to an outstanding, experienced transition team

And people in his administration who really knows &understands the innerworkings of government - the way its supposed to function. Hence the expeditious extraction of the rot.

[Pepsidog]

23. It's pure poetry.

[panfluteman]

25. Trump's Much Maligned "Deep State" Is Nothing But Our Corps of Dedicated Civil Servants

Without which our country couldn't function. These dedicated civil servants give our nation stability, continuity and reliability, building domestic and international alliances, as well as trust in government. Unfortunately for Trump, the vast majority of them swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and not him - and that's why he raged against the deep state so. Now that President Biden, who also took an oath to defend the Constitution, and is taking it seriously, is in the White House, he can make common cause with those dedicated career civil servants of the "deep state".

[Skittles]

28. that would be a requirement of the Oath of Office

yes indeed

[Joinfortmill]

29. Happy 💃

[Blue Owl]

32. No use for that shit in the real world

This ain't "The Appendage" or whatever his shitty TV show was called

[Teddy Beer]

33. Punt 'em

Into the nearest ocean.

[patricia92243]

35. Biden really is draining the swamp.

[BComplex]

38. This! eom

[Vivienne235729]

55. 1000+

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

36. These are not dismissals, they are exorcisms. nt

[bdamomma]

39. what's the saying??

throw the bums out!!!!

[Wounded Bear]

41. Definitely need to oust the Trumpistas throughout gov't...nt

[dalton99a]

43. Hey Joe: Don't forget Corey Lewandowski, Louis DeJoy

Detoxify our government. Root them all out

[FSogol]

47. Lewandowski was removed today. n/t

[Number9Dream]

44. Louis DeJoy must go! Add Dems to the USPS governors

Our mail is still screwed up. Ousting DeJoy must be a priority.

[pecosbob]

45. Now let's figure out a way to prevent professed monkey-wrenchers from filling government jobs

[bucolic_frolic]

48. Does that mean they found it?

The Deep State is alive and well? Whew! Did they save us?

[coeur_de_lion]

49. He doesn't have to run for reelection

He can do whatever the hell he wants.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

52. Inspiring! Impressive! 💙

[Sugar Smack]

53. Our Joe Biden is like a dog with a bone.

I see it. This man does not fuck around.
WOW.

[tclambert]

56. Biden needs a truckload of Oxiclean to wash the orange stain off our government.

And loads of Lemon Pledge to cut through all the chicken grease smeared on the Resolute Desk.

[Hortensis]

57. GREAT start! Gone -- "whatever the eventual legal consequences."

HR has legal staff to tend to that.

Read there are @4000 total positions to fill. 1250 will be slower because they require senate confirmation.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

58. From the source, the New York Times:

Biden Team Rushes to Take Over Government, and Oust Trump Loyalists

President Biden named nearly all of his cabinet secretaries and their immediate deputies before he took office, but his real grasp on the levers of power has come several layers down.

By David E. Sanger
Jan. 27, 2021

{snip}

The tone was set before Mr. Biden was sworn in. On the Saturday evening before the inauguration, Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist, was installed as general counsel of the National Security Agency on the orders of Mr. Trump’s acting defense secretary. It was a classic case of “burrowing” a political appointee into the bureaucracy in a new, nonpolitical job classification that would make it hard to fire him.

But after Mr. Biden became president, Mr. Ellis was immediately placed on administrative leave while the National Security Agency’s inspector general examined the circumstances of how he was chosen. Now it is unclear if Mr. Ellis will ever serve in the job.

The Trump administration made a similar attempt to burrow officials into the United States Agency for Global Media, which broadcasts around the world, with similar results. ... Some officials were fired outright. The Biden team told Victoria Coates, a former Trump national security official who was made the head of the government’s Middle East Broadcasting Networks in the last days of the administration, that it did not care that her contract called for her to serve at least two years and that she could not be removed unless she was convicted of a felony. Her email was cut off at the end of last week in what she called “a shocking repudiation of President Biden’s call for unity and reconciliation.”

In every department, there is already a Biden team on the ground, including those like the hollowed-out Housing and Urban Development, which was run for the past four years by a disengaged secretary, Ben Carson, and a group of ideologically oriented appointees.

{snip}

Reporting was contributed by Lisa Friedman, Noah Weiland, Glenn Thrush, Helene Cooper, Coral Davenport, Katie Benner, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs.

David E. Sanger is a national security correspondent. In a 36-year reporting career for The Times, he has been on three teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2017 for international reporting. His newest book is “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age.” @SangerNYT • Facebook

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 28, 2021, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: President’s Team Ousts Holdovers From Trump Era. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe