An attorney helping President-elect Trump plan for the transition at the Justice Department said Monday that career employees opposed to his vision for the agency should leave.
Mark Paoletta wrote on X that Justice Department employees would play a role in carrying out a variety of measures, from immigration enforcement to “soft on crime prosecutors” to helping with pardons for Jan. 6 defendants and others.
“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........