The sudden civil war between the Department of Justice and Camp Runamuck escalated on Thursday when the DOJ 86'ed the administration*'s mole in its offices. From the AP:
Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed at the Justice Department as a White House liaison a few months ago. She was told within the last two weeks to vacate the building after top Justice officials learned of her efforts to collect insider information about ongoing cases and the department’s work on election fraud, the people said...
Stirrup had also extended job offers to political allies for positions at some of the highest levels of the Justice Department without consulting any senior department officials or the White House counsel’s office and also attempted to interfere in the hiring process for career staffers, a violation of the government’s human resources policies, one of the people said.
This development, of course, comes hard against the news that the president* may be considering firing Attorney General William Barr because, on the subject of the president*'s insane comments about the election that he lost, Barr proved to be merely 99.9999999999 percent sycophant. The flopsweat in the West Wing is high, indeed. But the case of Ms. Stirrup is a different kind of thing. This was an attempt to pump DOJ employees for information that could back up the president*'s fantasies.
You may recall that, in the immediate aftermath of the Trump inauguration, Trump loyalists were fanned out throughout the executive bureaucracy, mainly for an informant's duties, while the administration* left hundreds of other posts vacant. That process has accelerated since it became clear that there would be no second term. It seems as though this presidency* is ending the way it began—with clumsy palace intrigue, serial incompetence, and an atmosphere of galloping paranoia. These people would've loved East Germany.
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Originally Posted by Kevin
