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Trump terminates John Bolton’s security detail within hours of taking office​


"...Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

Bolton, who left the Trump White House in November 2019, has required ongoing US Secret Service protection because of threats against him from Iran. Trump initially terminated his protection after he left his administration in the first term, but President Joe Biden restored it once he took office.

“I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision,” Bolton said in a statement to CNN. “Notwithstanding my criticisms of President Biden’s national-security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to once again extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021.” ..."
 

Trump terminates John Bolton’s security detail within hours of taking office​


"...Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

Bolton, who left the Trump White House in November 2019, has required ongoing US Secret Service protection because of threats against him from Iran. Trump initially terminated his protection after he left his administration in the first term, but President Joe Biden restored it once he took office.

“I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision,” Bolton said in a statement to CNN. “Notwithstanding my criticisms of President Biden’s national-security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to once again extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021.” ..."
Finally, Trump did something I agree with.
 
The good news is in a couple years he will be a lame duck

He is going to die in office, give rise to centuries of conspiracy theories and false flag reprisals, and become more powerful in death than he ever was in life...ala Jesus or Elvis.
 


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Two of the people said that at least 15experienced career staffers across several divisions were removed from their positions and reassigned, a sign that the new president and his aides plan to carry out their promises to dramatically reshape the agency, including to focus more on immigration enforcement.

As a way to skirt legal protections afforded to career staffers, many of the officials were transferred to other positions inside Justice, where they would likely have less influence on the department’s big decisions, the people said. The officials will have to decide whether to stay in their new assignment or leave the agency.

… Among the people being removed from that division is deputy assistant attorney general George Toscas, who has served in the national security division since 2006, according to three people familiar with the matter. Two people familiar with the matter said he was transferred to a newly created Office of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement in the associate attorney general’s office.

Toscas was a top counterintelligence attorney who played a key role in deciding to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to retrieve the documents. He served as a deputy in the national security division during the first Trump administration.
Eun Young Choi, another deputy assistant attorney general in the national security division, and Bruce Swartz, a longtime deputy in the criminal division who focuses on international affairs, also were removed from their posts and reassigned elsewhere, the people familiar with the matter said. …”
 
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“… While many officials at the Justice Department and other agencies often leave government at the start of a new administration, these removals and reassignments were unusual because they were ordered just as Trump took office, said Mary McCord, a former Justice Department official who runs the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University.

Top deputy positions in the national security division are typically career positions, though it’s possible the Trump administration is removing the career people to replace them with political appointees, she said.

“I don’t believe there were ever any career people fired at transition since the national security division was founded,” McCord said. “One of the values of having career deputies in the national security division is consistency, institutional memory and the relationships that they build with our national security partners.”

On Monday night, hours after Trump’s inauguration, the Justice Department removed at least four top officials from the office inside the agency that operates the heavily backlogged U.S. immigration courts.

Federal guidelines call for a 120-day moratorium on certain staff reassignments after new, Senate-confirmed agency leaders start their appointments. But that moratorium is not yet in effect at Justice, where attorney general nominee Pam Bondi and other nominees to top positions are still going through the confirmation process. …”
 
Did it happen under Joe? Well then it's gotta go!
Surely you aren't that naive.

 
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