Banned from the building
You mean there’s a limit???
The official serving as President Donald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information about election fraud and other matters she could relay to the White House, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press.
snicker
That is, a spy Trump tried to plant at the Justice Department has been told to gtfo after she tried to bully staffers into helping her spy.
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.
Did they think she was going to be an honest “liaison”?
Stirrup is accused of approaching staffers in the department demanding they give her information about investigations, including election fraud matters, the people said.
The surprise here is that they were able to get rid of her.
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.
She really sounds like a lot of fun.
Earlier this week, Attorney General William Barr told the AP that U.S. attorneys and the FBI had looked into allegations of election irregularities and found no evidence of widespread voting fraud that would change the outcome of the election.
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” he said on Tuesday.
Trump shot back at Barr on Thursday, saying the Justice Department “hasn’t looked very hard” and calling it a disappointment. But he stopping short of implying Barr’s future as attorney general could be cut short.
Well what do you mean “short”? He’s only got 7 weeks as it is.
“Ask me that in a number of weeks from now,” Trump said when asked if he still has confidence in Barr.
Dude in a number of weeks you’re out of there and looking through the subpoenas from the New York prosecutors. You’re not canning anybody in “a number of weeks.”
Well, that’s good they told her to GTFO I guess. The cynic in me considers it unlikely they would have done that if Trump had won the election.
Rob, if Trump had won then Barr would have been in work for another four years, there’d be no need for investigations into election fraud, and he would have happily squashed any other investigations that Trump might have to worry about. As things stand, Barr has no need to placate Trump, and it looks as though he thinks that if he acts like a proper AG for the next seven weeks people might just forget his craven obedience to Trump until now. Fat chance of that.