Employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are reportedly terrified that there will be a “bloodbath” of layoffs once President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.
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Which is odd, since our friends in the mainstream media have previously indicated the term “bloodbath” is a secret siren call for violence.
Kerry Picket of the Washington Times spoke to several inside sources who claim top officials at the bureau are “stunned” and “shellshocked” at the overwhelming victory for Trump in Tuesday’s election.
Trump didn’t just win — he received an overwhelming mandate from the American people, along with solid Republican control of the Senate and very likely retaining control of the House.
There will be very little standing in the way of Trump’s policies and platforms being implemented.
Who Will be First to Go at the FBI?
With that knowledge, it seems employees at the FBI are fraught with concern for their livelihoods. That starts at the top, with Director Christopher Wray, according to the insiders.
“It’s a countdown for Wray because [people here] don’t think he will stay to get fired after what Trump did to Comey,” the first source said. “Trump will say, Yeah, ‘fire his ass. Don’t let him take the plane home.'”
Wray, who has overseen the malicious prosecution of Trump supporters involved in the mostly peaceful protest known as January 6th, even as his own bureau had laced the grounds with an unknown number of informants (former Capitol police chief Steven Sund has estimated the number – combined with DHS informants – to be in the dozens), should be the first to receive a pink slip.
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Trump has previously called on Wray to resign for covering up President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline in Congressional testimony. He needn’t be given the opportunity to resign. Fire him. Day one.
FBI brass ‘stunned’ and ‘shell shocked’ over Trump reelectionhttps://t.co/njYBOBXNAM pic.twitter.com/HbhADoBzl9
— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) November 8, 2024
It Isn’t Just Wray
Beyond Wray, however, other senior management or executive-level officials at the FBI are equally concerned that their jobs may be in peril.
“Others on the 7th floor of the FBI are so concerned about their own jobs that they are likely to flood the Washington, D.C., private security job market,” the report says.
Their sources indicate nobody feels safe from being let go, fully expecting Trump to “smash the place to pieces when he gets in,” ushering in a spectacular “bloodbath.”
From an HR standpoint, of course. From their lips to Trump’s ears.
FBI afraid of @ElonMusk DOGE:
“When he tries to do efficiency at headquarters, the place is going to have five people … if he’s talking about a lot of dead weight,” a second FBI source said.
“Try to find a person that’s actually working,” the source said. “That may be the… https://t.co/Fry1LKLEDu
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) November 8, 2024
They’re Terrified of Elon Musk Too
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this new report involves the FBI sources who admit that they’re worried about Elon Musk coming in and cleaning house as well.
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Trump made a campaign promise vowing to create a government efficiency commission to audit the entire federal government. Musk would reportedly lead the effort.
One source tells the Times that cutting waste at the FBI will naturally lead to a massive reduction in staff, because the waste is everywhere in this partisan cesspool.
“When he tries to do efficiency at headquarters, the place is going to have five people … if he’s talking about a lot of dead weight,” they said, according to Picket.
“Try to find a person that’s actually working,” they continued, suggesting the FBI is clearly “bloated.”
Well, we know somebody is working there. Overtime. Because they’ve charged over 1,265 individuals in relation to the J6 cases.
Speaking of which, the Times notes that some employees who didn’t appreciate being forced to work the J6 beat are amused “that Trump [likely] pardons everybody involved” in those cases.
Other Federal Employees Worried About Being Fired
It isn’t just the folks at the FBI who are worried that President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance, and efficiency czar Elon Musk are going to clean house.
Within weeks of the election, a report surfaced covering various government agencies as they came to terms with the fact that their jobs might be on the line if Trump were to defeat Kamala Harris.
A large portion of these federal workers seeking to jump ship were with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They wanted out of a department they felt would be target-rich for a Trump administration eager to eliminate waste and overspending.
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One couple complained that they were being forced to put off buying a new car and making home renovations because they were worried about their jobs.
Oh, the humanity.
Early on in his campaign, Trump announced a plan to clean up the federal government and take on the entrenched federal bureaucracy by requiring all federal employees to pass a Civil Service test to prove their understanding of the United States Constitution.
Requiring federal employees, especially those at the FBI, to prove they understand the Constitution will eliminate a substantial percentage of the bloat in and of itself.
The Biden-Harris administration has weaponized every facet of the Justice Department to jail their political opponents. They’ve used every facet of other government agencies to intrude on your personal lives through regulations and economic policies that cause hardships.
Come January 20th, let the cleanup commence. Mr. Trump, go ahead and “smash the place to pieces.”
