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Friday night massacre

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Trump — as part of his efforts to facilitate as much corruption and arbitrary exercise of power as possible — fired 17 inspectors general en masse:

President Trump fired 17 inspectors general, the internal watchdogs who monitor federal agencies, on Friday night, capping a week of dramatic shake-ups of the federal bureaucracy focused on loyalty to the president, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

The sweeping move did not affect [proven Trump ass-kisser –ed.] Michael E. Horowitz, the inspector general for the Justice Department, according to one of the people with knowledge of the matter. But inspectors general at several major agencies were believed to have been fired.

The Washington Post reported the firings earlier. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

The firings threatened to upend the traditional independence of the internal watchdogs, and critics of Mr. Trump reacted with alarm.

“Inspectors general are charged with rooting out government waste, fraud, abuse and preventing misconduct,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, said in a statement. “President Trump is dismantling checks on his power and paving the way for widespread corruption.”

And, as is usually the case where Trump is involved, there’s a particularly grim punchline:

Remember when the media spent an entire election cycle telling the American public that the number one issue of concern was whether one of the candidates had used a private email server to conduct official business?

[image or embed]— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) January 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM

Tell people the story of how the election that brought us Trump was covered 30 years from now and nobody who wasn’t there would believe it. I was there and I barely believe it myself.

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