Thursday, 26 December 2024

Candidates Emerge For President Trump’s Attorney General

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According to Fox News, four candidates have emerged to lead the U.S. Department of Justice in President Trump’s second administration.

“Early contenders for the post include sitting U.S. senators, former Justice Department personnel and at least one top White House adviser from Trump’s first term,” Fox News stated.

The rumored candidates include:

  • Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
  • Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe
  • Former White House attorney Mark Paoletta
  • Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey

    • “Mark Paoletta is far and away the best choice for Attorney General,” Trump’s attorney Mike Davis commented.

    WATCH:

    Fox News reports:

    Former White House attorney Mark Paoletta served during Trump’s first term as counsel to then-Vice President Mike Pence and to the Office of Management and Budget.

    Paoletta is also already working on the Trump transition team, including helping steer Justice Department policy in the next Trump administration, making him a potentially natural fit for the role.

    Paoletta also made clear Monday that if tapped to head up the Justice Department, he would not tolerate any resistance to Trump’s agenda by career prosecutors and other nonpolitical officials.

    “President Trump was elected by the American people to carry out his agenda,” Paoletta said in a lengthy X post.

    Paoletta writes:

    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 end widespread abuse of the asylum system, ending automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens, and taking federal actions to prevent sanctuary cities from obstructing federal immigration enforcement,

    Restoring law and order across our country, including rescuing our cities from mob violence and left-wing soft on crime prosecutors,

    Immediately stopping the lawfare and persecution of political opponents that is unprecedented in American history and destroying our democracy,

    Granting pardons or commutations to January 6th defendants and other defendants who have been subjected to politically-driven lawfare prosecutions and sentences,

    Abolishing DEI in government and taking action against those companies and universities that engage in racial discrimination,

    Protecting Americans’ right to speech, religion, and the Second Amendment,

    Protecting religious liberties, including investigating and prosecuting the horrific antisemitism ripping through this country,

    Protecting parents’ rights from irreparable transgender surgeries and procedures on minor children, and investigating those who have pushed this on minor children;

    Paving the way for an energy boom and American Energy Golden Age,

    And holding accountable those who weaponized their government authority to abuse Americans.

    These are all positions President Trump campaigned on and that career DOJ lawyers may be working on to accomplish President Trump’s lawful agenda that was approved by a landslide vote of the American People. DOJ career employees do not set the agenda. In fact, they are required to help implement this agenda.

    Hopefully, they will be as committed to helping President Trump implement his agenda as they did for President Biden. Of course, political leadership welcomes feedback to help improve a project. But once the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President’s plan.

    Of course, no one will push them to implement flagrantly illegal actions like President Biden did with his student loan plan, where he thumbed his nose at the Supreme Court’s ruling and then tried to implement another illegal plan which was struck down. (In fact, the media was cheering on his law-breaking). I don’t recall reading any stories about career attorneys being concerned about working on this blatantly illegal action.

    If these career DOJ employees won’t implement President Trump’s program in good faith, they should leave. Those employees who engage in so-called “resistance” against the duly-elected President’s lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy.

    Finally, those that take such actions would be subject to disciplinary measures, including termination.

    I look forward to President Trump’s team Making America Great Again, especially at the Department of Justice and the FBI.

    Per Forbes:

    Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, R-Mo., former administration lawyer Mark Paoletta and former Trump Director of National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe are some of the names commonly floated for AG in media reports. Federal Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed the DOJ’s classified documents case against Trump, is also on a proposed personnel roster Trump’s team has circulated, ABC News reported last month, citing unnamed sources. Speculation has swirled that Trump adviser, Kash Patel, could be appointed AG. Trump said previously that Patel would help craft a “blueprint” for his next administration and lauded his book “Government Gangsters” as a “roadmap to end the Deep State’s reign.”


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