Federal prosecutors who were involved with the numerous political witch hunts against President Trump, including the J6 investigation, are fleeing the Department of Justice at a record rate ahead of Inauguration Day.
They are absolutely shaking in their boots.
Here’s what’s being reported:
Federal Prosecutors Involved in Trump Witch Hunts and January 6 Cases Flee DOJ, Fear They will Go Bankrupthttps://t.co/rZjdVkEWJ5 pic.twitter.com/DlQV6tkiXN
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) December 30, 2024
BREAKING: Donald Trump's election win has Department of Justice employees considering heading for the exits rather than sticking around.
"Everyone I’ve talked to, mostly lawyers, is losing their minds." pic.twitter.com/aUTG6I5GBt
— The General (@GeneralMCNews) November 10, 2024
If these Justice Department attorneys have done nothing wrong, why are they so nervous?
Because they know there’s evidence they engaged in a criminal conspiracy to violate the constitutional rights of Trump, his aides, and his supporters.
18 U.S.C. § 241https://t.co/cW0N8plqWE
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) December 29, 2024
From The Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department lawyers who have angered President-elect Donald Trump and his allies are facing tough decisions about whether to stay in government—and how to best protect themselves from threats of retribution after Inauguration Day.
ADVERTISEMENTDozens of prosecutors and agents have worked on cases that potentially make them vulnerable, such as special counsel investigations of Trump, prosecutions of hundreds of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and contempt-of-Congress cases that sent top Trump associates Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro to prison this year.
Their concerns are part of a broader wave of uncertainty that has swept through the Justice Department since Trump’s re-election, as he and his appointees openly float plans to fire career employees and bring the department more closely under presidential control.
Some department lawyers on the fence about leaving have sought counsel from Attorney General Merrick Garland and other senior officials, who have encouraged them to stay on for continuity of government and for their expertise, people familiar with the discussions said.
Law firms say they have seen an unprecedented flood of résumés from department lawyers looking for the exits. While presidential transitions always upend the ranks of political appointees, “now, it’s seeping into a lot of career people,” said Steve Nelson, a legal recruiter who helps lawyers make the jump from government into the private sector.
Members of Jack Smith’s team are among those who fear that they will be driven to bankruptcy if President Trump carries through with fully investigating the weaponization of the department underneath the Biden-Harris administration.
I have a feeling that there’s more than bankruptcy that they should be fearing.
Per The Rolling Stone:
Donald Trump was elected to a second term on a promise to exact his “retribution.” So it’s no wonder that federal investigators and others who worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office are taking the president-elect at his word.
According to two sources with knowledge of the matter and a former Justice Department official, several attorneys and staffers who were on the special counsel’s Justice Department team, or had done work for its criminal investigations into Trump, have already sought legal counsel or retained personal lawyers — in case the former and now future president and his incoming administration follow through on his desire to probe or even prosecute his enemies.
In less than a month, Trump will be inaugurated in Washington, D.C., for his second term in the Oval Office. He plans to mold much of the Department of Justice and FBI into a subsidiary of his own interests, and has suggested using these instruments to retaliate against those investigating him.
ADVERTISEMENT“The precedent on doing what they did, with the weaponization, using the DOJ and the FBI to go after their political opponents, that is so bad,” Trump said earlier this year. “That means I can do it too,” he added. “Pandora’s Box is open and that means that I can do it too.” Trump repeatedly pledged to be voters’ “retribution.” When President Joe Biden said during a debate that Trump would go after his political opponents, he did not deny that, instead offering: “I said my retribution is going to be success.”
One of the sources with knowledge of the situation tells Rolling Stone that multiple people who worked with Smith and his core team have preemptively reviewed their private and professional communications, to make sure they hadn’t written anything that could be subpoenaed, publicly revealed, and used against them to paint a narrative of alleged misconduct or supposed anti-Trump bias.
Some federal investigators, including more junior staff, have talked to attorneys and legal groups about possible ways a rejuvenated Trump Justice Department could try to make their lives hell, what precautionary measures they should take, and even how to avoid going bankrupt if the revenge probes come in full force, the sources add.
The hunters have truly become the hunted.
Stay tuned.
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