{"id":2398107,"date":"2025-02-03T07:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-presidents-cant-control-executive-agencies-elections-are-fake\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:30:13","slug":"if-presidents-cant-control-executive-agencies-elections-are-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-presidents-cant-control-executive-agencies-elections-are-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"If Presidents Can&#8217;t Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-presidents-cant-control-executive-agencies-elections-are-fake%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2398107&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In the first two weeks of President Donald Trump&#8217;s return to the White House, he\u200c has\u200c made numerous executive actions aimed primarily at \u2062dismantling federal bureaucracy. A important \u2063event during this period was the firing of staff in \u2063the Department of Justice (DOJ) overseeing\u200c January 6 \u200dprosecutions, a move termed a \u201cFriday night massacre\u201d by commentator Julie Kelly. Acting\u200c Deputy Attorney General\u200c Emil Bove and Acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed martin have taken on pivotal roles, \u200cpursuing the removal of senior personnel from the FBI and\u200c DOJ and\u2063 launching an\u2064 internal investigation into alleged abuses related to the treatment of Capitol protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Trump administration is \u200cfocusing on reforming the U.S. Agency \u2062for International Development (USAID) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), with discussions of integrating USAID into the State Department. This move has generated controversy, particularly regarding allegations that USAID has acted as \u2062a front for the CIA and engaged in funding activities criticized as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-backlash-most-americans-dont-want-businesses-to-take-public-stances-on-current-issues-poll-says\/\" title=\"Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose Businesses Taking Public Stances on Current Issues\">promoting leftist agendas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Recent actions included placing multiple \u2063USAID officials on administrative leave amid suspicions of circumvention of executive orders, sparking a conflict with Doge (Department of Government Efficiency) \u2064personnel, who sought access to investigate funding and personnel\u200d issues\u2062 at USAID. This confrontation led to accusations from\u200c officials that Doge personnel were not cleared for \u2062such actions.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, particularly Democrats, have raised concerns over the implications of these changes on national security and global humanitarian efforts, while supporters of Trump&#8217;s actions argue that he is reclaiming control over a politicized federal bureaucracy that has operated without proper oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Joy Pullmann, the article&#8217;s author, asserts that if the executive branch cannot manage its agencies and personnel effectively, it undermines the democratic process. She emphasizes the necessity for reform in a system \u2063perceived as a patronage network,arguing that Trump&#8217;s efforts are about \u200crestoring accountability rather than political retribution.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/28\/trumps-executive-actions-made-his-first-week-the-most-consequential-in-presidential-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hundreds of substantive<\/a> executive actions President Donald Trump has taken in his first two weeks back in the White House, perhaps none matter more than his efforts at bureaucracy-busting. That notably includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.declassified.live\/p\/video-summary-friday-night-massacre?publication_id=1666532&amp;post_id=156261348&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=b9vf5&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">what Julie Kelly calls<\/a> a &ldquo;Friday night massacre&rdquo; days ago of the Department of Justice&rsquo;s January 6 prosecutorial staff, which erased 30-40 temporary positions Biden&rsquo;s DOJ had attempted to make permanent.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, &ldquo;arguably, he has done more in two weeks than Trump&rsquo;s entire Department of Justice did during his first term,&rdquo; Kelly said in a Saturday video. So has acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, both while the Senate confirmation of U.S. attorney general nominee Pam Bondi remains pending.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they&rsquo;ve sought the firing or retirements of numerous top FBI and DOJ personnel, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/officer_Lew\/status\/1885707210862277085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an accounting<\/a> of all FBI personnel involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 prosecutions. Martin is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.declassified.live\/p\/new-dc-us-attorney-opens-inquiry?publication_id=1666532&amp;post_id=156126215&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=b9vf5&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directing an internal probe<\/a> into the DOJ&rsquo;s abuse of a post-Enron obstruction statute that the Supreme Court said the department used unlawfully to imprison right-leaning Capitol protesters with help from Constitution-hating federal judges. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2014\/09\/ken-dilanian-sent-cia-drafts-of-stories-194906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CIA mouthpiece<\/a> Ken Dilanian <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1885689501483245788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complained <\/a>on NBC, &ldquo;This is probably the biggest purge in the modern history of the FBI, and we&rsquo;re talking about most of the senior leadership at the bureau.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Office of Personnel Management<\/a> and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are also posing prominent test cases for how the Trump administration can reform a federal bureaucracy that has, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/political-process\/report\/the-birth-the-administrative-state-where-it-came-and-what-it-means-limited\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by design<\/a>, resisted elected control since its inception. The administration is considering folding USAID into the State Department, and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) doge Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/02\/politics\/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed early Monday morning<\/a> Trump supports doing so. The two agencies have long engaged in power struggles.<\/p>\n<p>USAID is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/1886126881889755557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">widely perceived<\/a> as a CIA front organization. Former State Department official Mike Benz says USAID <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeBenzCyber\/status\/1885897640992252240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has funded<\/a> international censorship and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeBenzCyber\/status\/1885861960291381752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regime change operations<\/a>. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Thread-Ideological-Anti-Trump-Conspiracy-ebook\/dp\/B07TQDQ2TV\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demonstrated <\/a>by journalists Diana West and M. Stanton Evans, the State Department has embedded Communist subversives from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stalins-Secret-Agents-Subversion-Roosevelts-ebook\/dp\/B0043RSJUO\/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">well before<\/a> Whittaker Chambers all the way through secretaries Hillary Clinton and Antony Blinken, making it another top strategic threat to American self-governance.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday, acting agency administrator Jason Gray placed 50-60 USAID employees on paid administrative leave while he investigates &ldquo;information that they may have been conspiring to circumvent Trump&rsquo;s executive orders requiring the halting of federal aid funds to overseas programs and all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs within the agency,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2025\/01\/28\/trump_places_more_than_50_usaid_officials_on_leave__152266.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> RealClearPolitics&rsquo; Susan Crabtree.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8252;&#65039;Nicholas Gottlieb, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAID?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USAID<\/a> official who tried to cancel the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to put 60 career officials on admin leave (and by doing so also was placed on leave), repeatedly clashed with Trump appointees during the first term, knowledgable sources tell&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3y7kgwT02X\">https:\/\/t.co\/3y7kgwT02X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/susancrabtree\/status\/1885357345620086995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Saturday night, officials from DOGE attempted to enter USAID to begin accounting for its personnel and funding. Security Director Jack Voorhees and deputy Brian McGill physically barred them, and were subsequently placed on leave, CNN and Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/02\/politics\/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/musks-doge-takes-aim-vipers-nest-federal-agency-global-footprint\">Sunday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/katierosemiller\/status\/1886110659097637367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">administration says<\/a> claims that DOGE personnel didn&rsquo;t have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-suddenly-realize-karine-jean-pierre-is-terrible-at-her-job\/\" title=\"Dems Suddenly Realize Karine Jean-Pierre Is Terrible at Her Job\">proper security clearances<\/a> to access USAID information are false. According to a 2024 book by former Trump administration USAID official Mark Moyar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encounterbooks.com\/books\/masters-of-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Masters of Corruption<\/em><\/a>, Vorhees routinely weaponized security clearances to stymie the policies of elected officials.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>&#128680; BREAKING: USAID Senior Officials put on Leave after Physically Trying to stop DOGE from accessing Agency Systems<\/p>\n<p>Two USAID officials, John Voorhees and his deputy, were put on leave late Saturday night after refusing to allow DOGE members access to USAID systems. The DOGE&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Qru47Wcjh\">pic.twitter.com\/1Qru47Wcjh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Autism Capital &#129513; (@AutismCapital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AutismCapital\/status\/1886100939175817596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/02\/politics\/usaid-officials-leave-musk-doge\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent a letter<\/a> to Secretary of State Marco Rubio Sunday complaining about the incident and insisting that &ldquo;by law&rdquo; Congress must determine whether the president can revise a president-created agency.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>USAID officials placed on leave include Voorhees, Employee and Labor Relations Director Nicholas Gottlieb, and Assistant General Counsel for Ethics Jack Ohlweiler. Moyar&rsquo;s book says Ohlweiler and Voorhees are some of the agency&rsquo;s most politicized employees. <\/p>\n<p><em>Masters of Corruption<\/em> says Voorhees intentionally delayed Moyar&rsquo;s security clearance so he could not enact Trump&rsquo;s policies and in alleged retaliation for Moyar reporting entrenched corruption and criminal activity at the agency.  It says Voorhees lied to Moyar and others about delaying the clearance. It alleges Ohlweiler helped deny Moyar a security clearance on partisan grounds, with no due process.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finance.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/2020-12-23%20CEG%20to%20USAID%20re%20Moyar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent letters<\/a> to USAID about the alleged whistleblower retaliation, naming Voorhees. He received non-answers.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">USAID grantee NGOs literally take their USAID money then turn around and lobby all key members of Congress to give more and more US taxpayer money to USAID each year in the budget. USAID buys an army of lobbyists with your tax dollars to give it more of your money<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBenzCyber\/status\/1886105727300710505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Moyar also demonstrates that many agency inspectors general work to cover up corruption rather than reduce it. That was certainly the case for the inspectors general who closed their books on Spygate-related power abuses, whose work led to no significant prosecutions and elicited noncooperation from numerous key players. The Trump administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-inspectors-general-fired-congress-unlawful-4e8bc57e132c3f9a7f1c2a3754359993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also already fired<\/a> some 17 agency inspectors general.<\/p>\n<p>In his book, Moyar says he was harassed by the national security state for disclosing evidence about USAID that included: &ldquo;unauthorized personnel actions, most notably the creation of a new civil service deputy; bullying of employees; allocation of nearly all CMC travel money to two individuals; maintenance of a small inner circle of favorites that dominates hiring panels and receives most of the perks, such as bonuses and slots at war college courses; marginalization of senior foreign service officers and elevation of pliant junior foreign service officers&hellip;[and] conflicts of interest.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why did USAID pay $20 million to hit piece journalists to dig up dirt on Rudy Giuliani and use that dirt as the basis to impeach the sitting US President in 2019? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ab8aQvJuF3\">pic.twitter.com\/Ab8aQvJuF3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBenzCyber\/status\/1886147244874674394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>USAID has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-02\/Fact%20Sheet%20Integrated%20Responses%20on%20Migration%20in%20Central%20America%202022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funded<\/a> organizations facilitating illegal migration into the United States, foreign abortions, climate change hysteria, transgender ideology, international Marxism, and anti-white racism, according to a 2022 Heritage Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-05\/BG3706.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>. The report also says USAID has funded organizations that fund leftist district attorneys who encourage crime and use their offices to prosecute Americans for disagreeing with Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Former Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/1886126884108554352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">testified before Congress<\/a> that USAID helped fund the development of the Covid-19 virus. A 2018 inspector general report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/06\/21\/feds-u-s-taxpayer-funds-helping-irrigate-fertilize-afghan-opium-funding-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> USAID funding had fueled opium farming in Afghanistan, which funds terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring all this, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CoryBooker\/status\/1886238036763021672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats <\/a>and corporate media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/397399\/usaid-omb-purge-government-agency-spending-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insist<\/a> Trump&rsquo;s aid funding freeze is risking &ldquo;millions of lives&rdquo; via suspending food, medicine, and other humanitarian assistance. But such assistance is a front for a malignant agency threatening American lives and sovereignty and pumping leftist priorities across the globe.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Most governments don&rsquo;t want USAID funds flowing into their countries because they understand where much of that money actually ends up.<\/p>\n<p>While marketed as support for development, democracy, and human rights, the majority of these funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bXpdK29zH5\">pic.twitter.com\/bXpdK29zH5<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1886059275174506850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Other incoherent responses from Democrat media include that a president can&rsquo;t erase an agency another president created (USAID) but also can&rsquo;t create an agency (DOGE). It&rsquo;s not about logic, it&rsquo;s about maintaining power by any means possible. As Chris Bray <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/in-which-chris-bray-fails-to-hit?publication_id=484195&amp;post_id=156265310&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNjE5NDc1MSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTU2MjY1MzEwLCJpYXQiOjE3Mzg0NDgzODIsImV4cCI6MTc0MTA0MDM4MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQ4NDE5NSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.TMAKU1kcGMKTcLHjbrhqd90LtZ3_coWuAPK-3C1j2io&amp;r=flfzz&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">points out<\/a>, Democrats today are filing lawsuits claiming every executive action is literally Orange Hitler, while just about five years ago they were the ones demanding everyone obey illegal Covid executive orders or we were killing grandma and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/partner_surveys\/jan_2022\/covid_19_democratic_voters_support_harsh_measures_against_unvaccinated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deserving of jail time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/julie_kelly2\/status\/1885332524710211918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claiming <\/a>Trump will &ldquo;politicize&rdquo; agencies by installing &ldquo;loyalists&rdquo; are only expressing rage that Republicans are attempting to take the keys to the unconstitutional power structure Democrats have controlled for more than a century. Besides creating an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">illegitimate shadow government erasing constitutional government<\/a>. the bureaucracy is itself a politicized patronage system.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Trump and Musk are recklessly and illegally dismantling USAID, an essential national security agency that saves lives, advances U.S. interests, and promotes peace.<\/p>\n<p>Their malicious actions are putting the health of people, especially children, at grave risk, and will surely lead&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoryBooker\/status\/1886238036763021672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The bureaucracy also distributes patronage by doling out favors and finances: favorable decisions and contracts. It&rsquo;s unseemly &mdash; and wrong &mdash; for public employees to have privileges unattainable for most of the Americans paying their salaries. That includes effectively being protected from ever being fired, even for rank insubordination or incompetence. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p>&mdash; Gunther Eagleman&trade; (@GuntherEagleman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuntherEagleman\/status\/1885442494076269015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>If the executive cannot control his own personnel, agencies, and funding lawfully given to him by a duly elected Congress, elections mean nothing. If the executive is not actually an executor, then the entire bureaucracy is an autocratic, self-licking ice cream cone. It runs the country, not any elected official. And Congress is complicit, because it allows the distribution of opium funds to Afghanistan and queer &ldquo;safe spaces&rdquo; in Kenya without ever having to take a public vote on any of this garbage, so long as these taxpayer-provided slush funds slather their retirements and relatives with &ldquo;nonprofit&rdquo; and &ldquo;contractor&rdquo; lard.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you want to call unelected bureaucrats and &ldquo;nonprofit&rdquo; grifters distributing funds obtained from American citizens against our consent as expressed in elections and line-item votes, it is not a republic, nor a democracy. If Trump can&rsquo;t fire his own employees and redistribute public funds the executive branch has been given by law, he&rsquo;s not really the president, and elections are fake.<\/p>\n<p>All this means Trump isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;weaponizing&rdquo;  or &ldquo;politicizing&rdquo; these agencies. He&rsquo;s fighting their inherent weaponization. Firing and investigating people who abuse public power, and ending the theft of American labor to fund evil international patronage schemes &mdash; that isn&rsquo;t retribution, it&rsquo;s justice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist. Her latest book with Regnery is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a>.&#8221;  A happy wife and the mother of six children, her ebooks include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books For Young Children<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/a2Jzp\">101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation<\/a>.&#8221;      An 18-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media including Tucker Carlson, CNN, Fox News, OANN, NewsMax, Ben Shapiro, and Dennis Prager. Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs who identifies as native American and gender natural.  Joy is also the cofounder of a high-performing Christian classical school and the author and coauthor of classical curricula.    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