“Are you struck by the velocity at which things are moving post-midterm election against the Trump administration, including the Department of Justice?”
Michael Popok posed that question to me about the cascade of high-level departures and defections following the Democratic Party’s blowout of Trump’s Republican Party during the midterm elections.
Indeed, I was.
Here are three of the most high-profile exits to date — save for ex-Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, whose ouster wasn’t announced at the time of our conversation:
Harmeet Dhillon, the ex-Trump election lawyer who gave the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division an Orwellian inversion, left after losing 27 consecutive voter roll cases and making “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” a target of her agency rather than its objective.
Ex-U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones, the architect of the so-called grand conspiracy investigation, had his office send out more than 130 subpoenas in pursuit of Trump’s enemies, only to see the probe in shambles as three other prosecutors quit. Now, he’s gone, too.
John Eisenberg was the former assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s national security division, which was part of John Bolton’s prosecution. He was also involved in the White House’s handling of Trump’s call with Volodymyr Zelensky during his first term’s Ukraine scandal, Politico reported.
Check out our conversation about the speed of these changes at the top of this newsletter.
For more of Popok’s solo analysis, you can watch the full video on the Legal AF website.
