The once and future president, Donald Trump, has already begun the gargantuan task of selecting staff for his incoming administration, but he should also keep an eye out for specific woke bureaucrats to fire as soon as he enters office on Jan. 20, 2025.
Trump didn’t just win the Electoral College on Nov. 5; he won the popular vote. He has a clear mandate to take charge of the federal government and root out the woke elites who pull the strings in Washington, D.C.
My research for my forthcoming book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” highlights four key bureaucrats to whom Trump will likely deliver his iconic line from “The Apprentice”: “YOU’RE FIRED!”
“The Woketopus” exposes how a vast network of left-wing donors props up a system of woke nonprofits that staff and advise federal agencies, championing leftist policies in the administrative state. Each of these bureaucrats has ties to this massive influence campaign.
If Trump wants to undermine the deep state and bring sanity back to the federal government, he will prepare the pink slips for these bureaucrats:
Kristen Clarke heads up the Justice Department’s Office of Civil Rights, and she’s the force behind the DOJ’s disproportionate charges against pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics.
Following the leak of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Association opinion overturning the abortion precedent Roe v. Wade, vandals have attacked at least 95 pro-life pregnancy centers and 303 Catholic churches. Yet in all of 2022, the Justice Department did not charge a single person with any attacks, and it only charged four people with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for such vandalism in 2023.
According to the Justice Department, the FACE Act protects access to both abortion clinics and pro-life pregnancy centers, but the Civil Rights Division charged 26 pro-lifers with FACE Act violations in 2022. By contrast, the DOJ only charged four people with FACE Act violations in 2021 and even fewer in the years before that. Clarke, as assistant attorney general for civil rights since May 2021, leads the division in charge of FACE Act prosecutions.
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who held Clarke’s job during the Obama administration, said in December 2022 that the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe increased “the urgency” of the DOJ’s work, including the “enforcement of the FACE Act, to ensure continued lawful access to reproductive services.”
A former DOJ official told The Daily Signal that the department appears to be “using the FACE Act to intimidate the pro-life population of the country.”
Clarke served as president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a left-wing activist group. She also........