Trump Transition Warns DOJ Lawyers: Get On Board

Politico reports:

A conservative lawyer working on Donald Trump’s transition, Mark Paoletta, offered a stark warning to career Justice Department lawyers Monday that those who refuse to advance Trump’s agenda should resign or face the possibility of being fired.

“Once the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President’s plan,” Paoletta wrote in a post on X responding to a POLITICO story detailing widespread fear among DOJ lawyers about being asked to advance or defend policies they consider unethical or illegal.

Paoletta recited a laundry list of Trump goals, including mass deportations, ending birthright citizenship, issuing pardons and commutations to Jan. 6 defendants, reversing “lawfare and persecution of political opponents,” and “holding accountable those who weaponized their government authority to abuse Americans.”

Read the full article. Paoletta is Ginni Thomas’s lawyer and represented her during her testimony before the House committee on the Capitol riot. He also helped vet Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. He last appeared here when he appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast to accuse Democrats of “racism and misogyny” for criticizing Ginni Thomas and the wife of Samuel Alito.

President Trump was elected by the American people to carry out his agenda, which includes:

Securing the southern border, mass deportations of illegal aliens (beginning with rapists and murderers), surging resources to process immigration/asylum claims to clear out backlog and… https://t.co/n7yeUvRM2H

— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) November 11, 2024