Trump says, “YOU’RE FIRED!” while “DC Gulag” drags its feet releasing J6 prisoners
The new Trump 47 administration, just into its third day, has been working literally around the clock to clear out the dead wood and the deep state, including...
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The new Trump 47 administration, just into its third day, has been working literally around the clock to clear out the dead wood and the deep state, including some very specific purges you’ll be glad to hear about today.
Among the 1,000 or so who have already been let go, it’s particularly gratifying to know that retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who just became the beneficiary of a dodgy blanket pardon from outgoing Pardoner-in-Chief Joe Biden, has been fired. This man once called President Trump a “wannabe dictator,” so this case is about as clear-cut as it gets. It’s not a relationship that can be or deserves to be saved, as Trump once suggested that Milley deserved execution for holding back-channel conversations with the CCP while he was President. Some of our nation’s Founders would likely agree with that comment if they were around today.
And you have to love this: Less than three hours after Trump was inaugurated, Gen. Milley’s portrait was gone from the Pentagon. One can imagine the scene, which likely involved lots of cheering (we don’t know, but we like to think there was).
Gen. Milley was reportedly among the very first to be kicked to the curb, after serving most recently as a member of Biden’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council. Surely Trump won’t need Milley, of all people, for advice concerning the national infrastructure, considering the billions wasted on infrastructure that hasn’t even been built.
Around midnight --- after what for most mere humans would have been an exhausting day and night of inaugural activities --- President Trump posted on Truth Social what he called “an Official Notice of Dismissal” to four Biden employees and warned that this was just the beginning.
“Our first day in the White House is not over yet!” Trump said in his post. “My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not in line with our vision to Make America Great Again.
“Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, comings soon…”
The President then went on to name Gen. Milley; Jose Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition (who once backed out of a plan to open a restaurant in Trump’s DC hotel after what he claimed was Trump calling Mexicans criminals and racists); former diplomat Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars; and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President’s Export Council.
“YOU’RE FIRED!” Trump said.
Trump had already posted on Truth Social a “taboo list” of people whose associates shouldn’t be hired for his administration. This unsurprising list includes Liz and Dick Cheney, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, GOP megadonor Charles Koch, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, Gen. James Mattis and former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Remember him? Here’s just a sample...
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/18/mark-esper-secrets-trump-classified-00102541
It’s easy to understand that after what was done to Trump last time by the entrenched bureaucracy, he has zero tolerance for those who might want to pose obstacles. As the NEW YORK POST pointed out, he told Joe Rogan during their interview last year that “The biggest mistake I made” was hiring “bad people, disloyal people.” As an outsider in DC, he could never have anticipated the depth of the swamp he was wading into. So he’s obviously being very careful now.
Accordingly, no allies of Republicans who have spoken out against Trump will even be considered as new hires. “In order to save time, money and effort,” Trump posted, “it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who have worked with, or are endorsed by, [the above]...or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, commonly known as TDS.”
Another way Trump is trying to pare down the DC workforce is to reinstate the in-office five-day work week. Those who aren’t sufficiently dedicated to his administration can get out.
The Presidential Personnel Office, headed by longtime Trump associate Sergio Gor, is extremely busy right now, expected to hire about 4,000 people for the new administration. They do seem to be on the right track with this, and had already hired more than 1,300 staffers by the end of Day 1, a record for presidential new-hires.
This NEW YORK POST write-up also includes a summary of the executive orders Trump signed on Day 1. As you read this, you might want to get someone to pinch you, just to show you’re not dreaming...
https://nypost.com/2025/01/21/us-news/trump-to-remove-over-1000-biden-appointees-youre-fired
In related news, President Trump rescinded John Bolton’s security clearance on Monday, and the next day, he took away Bolton’s Secret Service protective detail. (Note: we’d forgotten Bolton had his own Secret Service detail. But President Biden gave him one after our intel got word of Tehran’s plan to kill him.)
“We’re not gonna have security on people for the rest of their lives,” Trump told White House reporters. “Why should we?”
He called Bolton a “warmonger” and said “I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well.”
There’s much more to be said about Trump’s new hires in the coming days, but for now, let’s move to what’s happening with the January 6 prisoners. Upon his swearing-in, Trump moved swiftly to pardon or commute the sentences of almost all of them, and many relatives and other loved ones were there at the “DC Gulag” and other detention facilities to take them home, but it didn’t happen that way.
Trump’s executive order had commuted the sentences of about a dozen individuals and pardoned “all individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.” It ordered that they be released IMMEDIATELY. But as Catherine Salgado reports for PJ MEDIA, “multiple prisons and halfway houses” are resisting the order, refusing to release the prisoners.”
Charlie Kirk posted on X: “If you are a family member of a J6 hostage, go to the prison and show a copy [of the order]. They have to release the prisoner. Pardon power is absolute total and immediate. Don’t let them delay --- we demand immediate release! Bring them home!”
Other prisoners were allegedly abused while awaiting release. The PJ MEDIA story below cites the case of J. D. Lang, who’s been in solitary confinement for much of the time (four years) he’s been in prison WITHOUT A TRIAL. (How does this happen in the United States of America??) “A family member of J6er J. D. Lang,” it reports, “likely his fiancée, accused via Lang’s X account on Monday evening that he was assaulted by prison guards, handcuffed and thrown back in his cell while in the process of being released.”
As of early Tuesday morning, according to Lang’s posts on X, he and 20 others were still being held inside the “DC Gulag.” Their families were “standing outside in below freezing 10-degree weather when they released 2 hostages, there are still 20 of us in here!!!”
The PJ MEDIA piece is a must-read…
If you’d like, here’s some background on the J. D. Lang case, written a few weeks after Trump won in November. It’s true --- he’s spent all this time behind bars with no trial.
In an update from Salgado, the “gulag” has finally started releasing at least some of the J6 prisoners. But as of late Tuesday, some are still being held, allegedly over “paperwork issues” and unresolved state charges. Thankfully, Enrique Tarrio (22-year sentence), whose case we discussed recently, and Stewart Rhodes (18-year sentence) have been released from prison. Neither entered the Capitol building at any time that day.
J. D. Lang did say he’d been assaulted by prison guards before being released. Former Green Beret Jeremy Brown was apparently treated similarly; it’s not known at this writing if he’s been released yet. The story is a must-read…
BLAZE MEDIA also reports delays in releasing the prisoners. Sen. Mike Lee told Glenn Beck Tuesday morning that “From what we can tell, they haven’t complied with [the order] yet. It’s yet another reason to revisit DC’s Home Rule, which I think should be repealed.”
We’ll see what happens in the next day or so. If this is a case of defiance, then, yes, Congress will definitely be looking at DC’s so-called “Home Rule.” Leaders there don’t get to turn DC into their own fiefdom, their own little banana republic within the U.S.
RELATED: In his (or his handlers’) haste, President Biden forgot to pardon a few people on his way out on Monday. Yes, of course he pardoned his own family, Gen. Milley, Liz Cheney, Dr. Anthony Fauci and many, many others, but he forgot some:
--- Former “Special Counsel” Jack Smith (who by now is probably back in The Netherlands)
--- Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg
--- New York Judge Juan Merchan
--- Fulton County, Georgia, DA Fani Willis
--- Alexander Vindman (alleged to have leaked classified info related to Trump’s first impeachment)
Bob Hoge at REDSTATE takes a brief look at each…
Finally, speaking of Jack Smith, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon ruled Tuesday that the DOJ can’t share his final report with members of Congress, considering that two Trump co-defendants have not yet had their day in court and (surprise!) actually deserve a fair trial. “There is no ‘historical practice’ of providing Special Counsel reports to Congress,” she wrote, “even on a limited basis, pending conclusion of criminal proceedings.”
What do you bet that selected portions of it somehow get leaked anyway?
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/doj-trump-special-counsel/2025/01/21
Let the troops bring them out. Our troops have been used for the same purpose in foreign countries. Those holding the J6ers are in defiance of a presidential order, which I am pretty sure,is a serious crime in itself. No excuses.