Removal of watchdogs is by its nature authoritarian.

[Marener]

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say the president must rely on those he has no faith in. These alleged protections clearly violate the separation of powers.

Nowhere in the constitution does it say I can’t criticize him for being an unethical crook and this is part of his corrupt administration and their total lack of transparency.

 

[Billiejeens]

His background is running a small family business absent any oversight or anyone questioning his decision making. He has brought that autocratic impulse, the idea what he says goes without question, to our democracy. Anyone or anything that gets in the way of the expression of his ultimate, unilateral authority, which is antithetical to the way every prez has governed before him and our constitutional system, is viewed as an obstacle to be removed.

And removed it shall be.

 

[Billiejeens]

Nowhere in the constitution does it say I can’t criticize him for being an unethical crook and this is part of his corrupt administration and their total lack of transparency.

Whatever other nonsense you believe -

There has never been a more transparent administration in history.

 

[kyzr]

why would we whine about hiring law enforcement officers?

We aren't. This is the "opinion" from the OP.
"It's a recurring theme. The attempt to expand power. In this case in order to avoid accountability for unethical/illegal acts in pursuit of a corrupt agenda."

berg is saying Trump wants to expand his power by laying off "watchdogs". My reference to Biden's hiring 87,000 IRS agents "willing to kill" seems like a much bigger power grab that berg ignored.

 

[Marener]

We aren't. This is the "opinion" from the OP.
"It's a recurring theme. The attempt to expand power. In this case in order to avoid accountability for unethical/illegal acts in pursuit of a corrupt agenda."

berg is saying Trump wants to expand his power by laying off "watchdogs". My reference to Biden's hiring 87,000 IRS agents "willing to kill" seems like a much bigger power grab that berg ignored.

How is hiring IRS agents a “power grab”?

Seems like enforcing the law would be a good thing.

 

[berg80]

Guess you never heard of FDR. What a drama queen and rube you are.

Actually, I have. Your analogy is embarrassingly fatuous.

 

[berg80]

Biased dishonest watchdog's should be fired...

The problem with that approach is cult members believe any watchdog or IG finding fault with Orange Grampa is inherently corrupt. When in truth what Gramp's wants to avoid is exposing his corruption.

 

[Rogue AI]

Actually, I have. Your analogy is embarrassingly fatuous.

I know, Trump is a little teddy bear compared to FDR. Trump hasn't thrown US citizens in concentration camps to forward a racist Democrat agenda, or threatened to pack the Supreme Court, or enacted dozens of unconstitutional programs, or allied us with any communists. When it comes to autocratic scumbags in the White House nobody can beat you loony racist Democrats.

 

[Rambunctious]

The problem with that approach is cult members believe any watchdog or IG finding fault with Orange Grampa is inherently corrupt. When in truth what Gramp's wants to avoid is exposing his corruption.

What corruption???

 

[Rogue AI]

Nowhere in the constitution does it say I can’t criticize him for being an unethical crook and this is part of his corrupt administration and their total lack of transparency.

You are free to whine to your heart's content. Although that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

 

[Marener]

You are free to whine to your heart's content. Although that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

Of course it does. We don’t have to accept Trump at his word. In fact, doing so is incredibly stupid given his long history of lying for personal gain.

He says he doesn’t have faith in them but he’s just looking to plant another compliant stooge in that position because that’s what he values.

Trump has not given anyone any reason to believe he has any commitment to ethics.

 

[Nostra]

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws​

The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference, according to current and former officials, ramping up a wave of firings in recent days.

A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday, including the attorney general’s own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell. Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as prosecutors and support staff who once worked for Jack Smith when he was a special counsel prosecuting Donald J. Trump.

On the surface, the various groups have little in common. Justice Department veterans, however, see an overarching pattern: a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work, and to give more leeway to the president’s loyalists.

The latest round of dismissals appears to have picked up steam after the Supreme Court last week allowed, for the time being, the administration to go forward with mass layoffs of federal workers. The decision gave the president more legal leeway to fire people en masse, at least for now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/justice-department-dismissals-civil-service-laws.html

It's a reoccuring theme. The attempt to expand power. In this case in order to avoid accountability for unethical/illegal acts in pursuit of a corrupt agenda.

Your link has no data on those let go. Nothing says anything is political.

Oh wait, except what some DOJ “veterans” think………

Another thread fail.

 

[Billiejeens]

Your link has no data on those let go. Nothing says anything is political.

Oh wait, except what some DOJ “veterans” think………

Another thread fail.

His consistency is astounding.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws​

The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference, according to current and former officials, ramping up a wave of firings in recent days.

A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday, including the attorney general’s own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell. Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as prosecutors and support staff who once worked for Jack Smith when he was a special counsel prosecuting Donald J. Trump.

On the surface, the various groups have little in common. Justice Department veterans, however, see an overarching pattern: a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work, and to give more leeway to the president’s loyalists.

The latest round of dismissals appears to have picked up steam after the Supreme Court last week allowed, for the time being, the administration to go forward with mass layoffs of federal workers. The decision gave the president more legal leeway to fire people en masse, at least for now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/justice-department-dismissals-civil-service-laws.html

It's a reoccuring theme. The attempt to expand power. In this case in order to avoid accountability for unethical/illegal acts in pursuit of a corrupt agenda.

Cutting the government work force is expanding power? How the **** does that work? If everyone in the nation is a government employee somehow that keeps the government out of power, you’re an idiot.

 

[Foxfyre]

Your link has no data on those let go. Nothing says anything is political.

Oh wait, except what some DOJ “veterans” think………

Another thread fail.

The ethics officers being let go were all working with Jack Smith to take down Trump. There was nothing honest, ethical or justifiable in all that and it was obviously 100% politically motivated. I cannot fault Bondi, Trump or anybody else for booting all those deep state operatives out of there.

Speaking of monitoring ethics, it is a HUGE teaching mechanism to inform future public servants to do their jobs and not engage in malicious unethical political lawfare or there will be consequences.

 

[Nostra]

The ethics officers being let go were all working with Jack Smith to take down Trump. There was nothing honest, ethical or justifiable in all that and it was obviously 100% politically motivated. I cannot fault Bondi, Trump or anybody else to booting all those deep state operatives out of there.

Speaking of monitoring ethics, it is a HUGE teaching mechanism to inform future public servants to do their jobs and not engage in malicious unethical political lawfare or there will be consequences.

Any ethics officer in the same room with Jack Smith not carrying handcuffs and a straight jacket needs to be fired on the spot.

 

[berg80]

What corruption???

In the Trump Administration, Watchdogs Are Watching Their Backs​

Even as President Trump fired a string of government watchdogs early in his second term, René L. Rocque, who investigates waste and abuse in the Education Department, decided to put her head down and keep doing her job.

The department stonewalled her request for details about how the Trump administration’s cuts were affecting students and teachers, but Ms. Rocque kept going. In May, she notified Congress that she was facing “unreasonable denials and repeated delays.”

The administration, it seems, was fed up. Within days, Mr. Trump ordered Ms. Rocque demoted and gave the job of acting inspector general to someone else.

The message to thousands of workers in inspectors general offices was clear: Be careful what you choose to investigate or you might be out of a job.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/inspectors-general-trump.html

 

[Rambunctious]

In the Trump Administration, Watchdogs Are Watching Their Backs​

Even as President Trump fired a string of government watchdogs early in his second term, René L. Rocque, who investigates waste and abuse in the Education Department, decided to put her head down and keep doing her job.

The department stonewalled her request for details about how the Trump administration’s cuts were affecting students and teachers, but Ms. Rocque kept going. In May, she notified Congress that she was facing “unreasonable denials and repeated delays.”

The administration, it seems, was fed up. Within days, Mr. Trump ordered Ms. Rocque demoted and gave the job of acting inspector general to someone else.

The message to thousands of workers in inspectors general offices was clear: Be careful what you choose to investigate or you might be out of a job.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/inspectors-general-trump.html

It sounds like Trump is fixing the watchdogs and replacing the dead weight... look at all of the waste fraud and abuse DOGE found in our federal government... that means the watchdogs have been blowing it or getting rich to ignore it... time for a makeover...

 

[P@triot]

The press, the courts, Justice, business, Congress -- it's all about removing or intimidating anyone who might hold the buffoon accountable.

This is not a thread about Barack Obama. Please stay on topic.

 

[P@triot]

Trump’s is a corrupt, authoritarian regime.

Nothing says “authoritarian” like cutting the size of government and turning power back to the states in accordance with the U.S. Constitution. This is so embarrassing for you…

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