'So dumb': Ex-DOJ official says GOP's 'deep state' purge threatens Trump's own agenda
Raw StoryAmid reports that career Justice and State Department employees are already being fired as President Donald Trump's administration tries to appoint more political allies to serve in those positions, a former prosecutor lamented Wednesday on MSNBC that the right appears hellbent on chasing shadows — to the detriment of functioning government. Former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann described an administration so easily fooled by their own conspiracies that they're harming the law enforcement necessary for the Trump agenda. "On the one hand, I'm taking them at their word that they think there's a deep state and somebody and that these are people who somehow are not going to follow lawful orders because they have some political agenda," said Weissmann. The "big picture," he said, is that places like the DOJ and FBI have a necessary service to enforce the law, and those institutions will be made "dramatically less effective" even for those things that are in the Trump agenda.
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