Trump searches for his attorney general as Justice Department officials worry about chaos and retribution
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From his seaside Florida resort, Donald Trump is holding a casting call to fill the toughest job in Washington: attorney general.
From his seaside Florida resort, Donald Trump is holding a casting call to fill the toughest job in Washington: attorney general. While Trump ended on bad terms with many Cabinet members, no post was more the focus of his cauldron of chaos than the leader of the Justice Department, where he fired one attorney general and soured on another. He also fired an FBI director, and two US attorneys in Manhattan, who oversaw investigations associated with Trump. Some Justice Department employees express fear that Trump’s return will mark a loss of traditional independence from the White House and damage to the department’s work. Current and former Justice officials anticipate eventual departures in some parts of the department and employees being sidelined and forced out. And people close to the president-elect, such as conservative lawyer Mark Paoletta, have issued a stark warning to career officials that they’ll be watched closely. “If these career DOJ employees won’t implement President Trump’s program in good faith, they should leave. Those employees who engage in so-called ‘resistance’ against the duly-elected President’s lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy,” Paoletta said Monday on X. Trump and his team have cited the attorney general as the most important Cabinet position if he is to make good on campaign promises, which include immigration-related executive orders and investigations of his political enemies. The Justice Department is also charged with defending administration actions in court, covering issues from health care to the environment to gun control.
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