Humor-Satire Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures [2024 Edition]

[KaraBulut]

Kari Lake is too insane to ever be elected to public office.

Instead, she got appointed as a "special advisor" to the U.S. Agency for Global Media which oversees the Voice of America programming, an agency which has provided media content, including news, to the entire globe since WWII. The service has provided programming to Americans during wartime, in service overseas and to the general public, including both English-language programming and content in nearly 50 different languages. For 80 years, it has provided these services with less than 200 employees.

Until Trump and Musk.

Kari Lake, the nutjob failed Senate candidate from Arizona is destroying an 80 year old institution of American free speech.

 

[rareboy]

She is still crazier than racoon shit.

And her lust for proximity to power has led to her doing the will of the Kremlin through Musk and TrumpCo.

She knows her political career is beyond redemption now so she is throwing herself into doing as the Fuhrer directs and destroying the organization. And of course now that the courts prevented it from being
dismantled, she is trapped in a dead end job.

 

[rareboy]

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[KaraBulut]

A Federal Judge is fed up with the DOJ still listing Lindsey Halligan as the US Attorney for Eastern Virginia after the Federal Judiciary determined that Halligan's appointment was illegal and all filings by Halligan were invalid. In the decision against Halligan, the courts did NOT stay the decision, so Halligan should have been taken off the payroll and removed from all DOJ documents listing her as the US Attorney. The court's decision that the appointment was illegal negated any role Halligan ever had inside the DOJ.

The action by the judge queues up disciplinary proceedings, up to and including disbarment for Halligan.

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/lindsey-halligan-virginia-trump-judge-justice-department

A federal judge ordered Trump ally Lindsey Halligan to explain why she's identifying herself as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia despite a court ruling that she was unlawfully appointed to the role.

Why it matters: U.S. District Judge David Novak in his order giving Halligan seven days to respond asked her to explain why her actions do not constitute "a false or misleading statement," which the Trump-appointed Richmond judge suggested could potentially result in disciplinary proceedings.

• The order comes weeks after another federal judge dismissed the Department of Justice case against New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and former FBI Director James Comey, which found that Halligan's appointment was "defective."
• Novak noted that the order came at his own initiative, rather than from an outside party, like defense attorneys.

 

[rareboy]

This is TrumpCo. toughing it out and doubling down.

Unless the courts actually start to prefer serious charges and consequences, this is all just theatre.

TrumpCo. is counting on the overthrow of the entire judicial system as part of seizing total control of government.

 

[rareboy]

Well at least the lawsuit is now filed. This is yet another litmus test for the US.

Prima facie, there is no case for Hegseth, but I doubt if the DoD or it's 'spirited' leader care.

This was just another headline action designed to hit the news and then to die.

If Kelly isn't successful, then all military personnel are neutered and rendered dumb.

 

[KaraBulut]

A Federal Judge is fed up with the DOJ still listing Lindsey Halligan as the US Attorney for Eastern Virginia after the Federal Judiciary determined that Halligan's appointment was illegal and all filings by Halligan were invalid. In the decision against Halligan, the courts did NOT stay the decision, so Halligan should have been taken off the payroll and removed from all DOJ documents listing her as the US Attorney. The court's decision that the appointment was illegal negated any role Halligan ever had inside the DOJ.

The action by the judge queues up disciplinary proceedings, up to and including disbarment for Halligan.

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/lindsey-halligan-virginia-trump-judge-justice-department

More trouble in the not-actually-the-US-Attorney-Halligan's office...

The lead prosecutor and the #2 in the office has been removed. No valid US Attorney and no #2.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/politics/justice-department-virginia-fires-prosecutor-robert-mcbride

The top career prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Eastern District of Virginia office has been fired, according to three people familiar with the development Monday.

It is the latest dramatic change to the powerful prosecutors’ office that previously brought cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The prosecutor, Robert McBride, was in the US Attorney’s Office for only a handful of weeks, working as No. 2 to Lindsey Halligan, who is President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the office as US Attorney but whose authority has been undercut in court.

 

[KaraBulut]

Pam Bondi's management of the DOJ is going to go down in the history books as one of the most incompetent, destructive administrations, if not the most incompetent, ever.

Yesterday, the DOJ had several members of their leadership resign in protest over DOJ's refusal to investigate the shooting of Renee Good. Reports on the resignation indicated that the decision of the department to not investigate was the last straw in a year full of frustration for DOJ employees who believe in the rule of law.

Top DOJ leaders quit in protest as Trump official refuses to probe deadly ICE shooting

At least four senior officials have resigned from the Department of Justice in protest over the Trump administration's response to the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.Three sources briefed on the departures told MS NOW that top leaders...

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Top DOJ leaders quit in protest as Trump official refuses to probe deadly ICE shooting

At least four senior officials have resigned from the Department of Justice in protest over the Trump administration's response to the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Three sources briefed on the departures told MS NOW that top leaders in the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division left their jobs to indicate their frustration that Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, decided not to investigate the ICE officer's killing of 37-year-old Renee Good.