{"id":15287,"date":"2025-01-27T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T02:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15287"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T02:47:31","slug":"the-trump-firing-massacres-begin-at-doj-inspectors-general-offices-1272025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15287","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Firing Massacres Begin at DOJ, Inspectors General Offices: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 1\/27\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_DoJ-Flag_012725.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Well, he did vow retribution against his &#8220;enemies&#8221;. Today on  <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we cover, among other things, <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s unlawful &#8220;Friday Night Massacre&#8221; of independent Inspectors General at Executive Branch agencies, his &#8220;Monday Massacre&#8221; of dozens of prosecutors this afternoon at the Dept. of Justice, and as much of note that happened in between that we find time for, along with speaking to callers on the back end. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the <i>many<\/i> stories covered today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/27\/middleeast\/trump-clean-out-gaza-middle-east-intl\/index.html\">calls for<\/a> ethnic cleansing in the Middle East, telling reporters on Air Force One over the weekend that he would favor &#8220;cleaning out&#8221; <b>Gaza<\/b> by sending Palestinians from there to other Middle Eastern countries. All the better to build sea side golf resorts in the strip of land that was previously home to more than two million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In case you didn&#8217;t notice last week (I wouldn&#8217;t blame you) Trump, with a stroke of his Executive Order pen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/22\/trump-dei-lbj-rollback\">ended<\/a> anti-discrimination programs across pretty much the entirety of the federal government, as originally (and successfully) instituted via Executive Order by <b>Lyndon B. Johnson<\/b> back in the <b>Civil Rights<\/b> era. Calling it &#8220;a reversal of 60 years of progress&#8221; and &#8220;a blatant step backwards,&#8221; Rep. <b>Hank Johnson<\/b> (D-GA) said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/hankjohnson.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/congressman-hank-johnsons-statement-following-president-trumps\">statement<\/a>, charging Trump&#8217;s order &#8220;gives federal government officials and complicit federal contractors a green light to engage in discriminatory practices that exclude minorities and women from employment and contracting opportunities.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The laughably unqualified Fox &#8220;News&#8221; weekend co-host, accused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/01\/pete-hegseth-accused-drunkenness-sexual-assault-financial-mismanagement-dod-confirmed\/\">sexual assaulter and public drunkard<\/a> <b>Pete Hegseth<\/b> was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pete-hegseth-defense-secretary-trump-cabinet-confirmation-12491935023692bce0a04d149663e784\">confirmed<\/a> as Sec. of Defense by Senate Republicans late on Friday night. All Dems voted against, and there were only 3 Republican defectors (<b>Murkowsky<\/b>, <b>Collins<\/b> and <b>McConnell<\/b>). That resulted in a tie vote which broken in Hegseth&#8217;s favor by Vice President <b>J.D. Vance<\/b>. It was only the second time in U.S. history that a Presidential cabinet member faced a tie vote. (The first was <b>Betsy DeVos<\/b>&#8216; nomination for Education Secretary during the first Trump Administration.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>South Dakota<\/b> Governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/apr\/26\/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book\">puppy killer<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kristi-noem-book-north-korea-90e61965e9ac486e52cec5b35da41f47\">ridiculous liar<\/a> <b>Kristi Noem<\/b> was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kristi-noem-border-trump-44925ad8670cd4ad57427513915bb140\">confirmed<\/a> by the U.S. Senate as Sec. of Homeland Security over the weekend. As DHS chief, she will oversee U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); the Transportation Security Administration (TSA); U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the United States Secret Service (USSS); the  U.S. Coast Guard (USCG); and the   Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), among others. I&#8217;m sure it will go well. All Republicans voted for her. Six Democrats (<b>Fetterman<\/b>, <b>Kaine<\/b>, <b>Kim<\/b>, <b>Peters<\/b>, <b>Slotkin<\/b> and <b>Shaheen<\/b>) shamefully voted in support of this corrupt, inexperienced Trump stooge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Friday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-inspectors-general-fired-congress-unlawful-4e8bc57e132c3f9a7f1c2a3754359993\">news broke<\/a> that Trump had fired about 17 independent <b>Inspectors General<\/b> at agencies across the federal government in violation of the law (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/5\/403\">U.S. Code, Title 5, Section 403(b)<\/a>) mandating that, while Presidents can fire Inspectors General, they must notify Congress in writing 30 days in advance before doing so, along with &#8220;substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons&#8221; for such removals. But, of course, who is going to enforce the law against the lawless Trump? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of which, on Monday, just before airtime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/27\/politics\/trump-special-project-january-6-prosecutors?cid=ios_app\">news broke<\/a> that Trump&#8217;s interim apparatchiks heading up the <b>Dept. of Justice<\/b> were sending out firing notices to more than a dozen prosecutors who worked with Special Counsel <b>Jack Smith<\/b> and those who prosecuted hundreds of <b>January 6<\/b> cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a whole bunch of related news and background in between and amongst all of those stories, before callers weigh in today on all of the above and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-HegsethNoemConfirmed-IGsFired-DoJMassacre_Callers_012725.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, he did vow retribution against his &#8220;enemies&#8221;. Today on The BradCast, we cover, among other things, Donald Trump&#8216;s unlawful &#8220;Friday Night Massacre&#8221; of independent Inspectors General at Executive Branch agencies, his &#8220;Monday Massacre&#8221; of dozens of prosecutors this afternoon at the Dept. of Justice, and as much of note that happened in between that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,89,675,272,513,479,1943,476,1590,428,1833,477,2037,332,2039,771,126],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-dept-of-defense","category-dhs","category-donald-trump","category-gaza","category-hank-johnson","category-insurrection","category-israel","category-jack-smith","category-kpfk","category-kristi-noem","category-lgbt","category-pete-hegseth","category-race","category-rights-and-freedoms","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=15287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}