It’s being reported by the AP that a group, funded by the Heritage Foundation, is actively investigating members of the Biden administration who could potentially stand in the way of implementing the policies of a future President Trump.
The group, American Accountability Foundation, will publish a list this summer of suspected individuals at the upper echelons of government who need to be scrutinized by a second-term Trump administration and possibly transferred or fired.
Here’s more from the AP:
From his home office in small-town Kentucky, a seasoned political operative is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the policies of Republican Donald Trump, a highly unusual and potentially chilling effort that dovetails with broader conservative preparations for a new White House.
Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homeland Security. They’re relying in part on tips from his network of conservative contacts, including workers. In a move that alarms some, they’re preparing to publish the findings online.
With a $100,000 grant from the Heritage Foundation, the goal is to post 100 names of government workers to a website this summer to show a potential new administration who might be standing in the way of a second-term Trump agenda — and ripe for scrutiny, reclassifications, reassignments or firings.
“We need to understand who these people are and what they do,” said Jones, a former Capitol Hill aide to Republican senators.
The concept of compiling and publicizing a list of government employees shows the lengths Trump’s allies are willing to go to ensure nothing or no one will block his plans in a potential second term. Jones’ Project Sovereignty 2025 comes as Heritage’s Project 2025 lays the groundwork, with policies, proposals and personnel ready for a possible new White House.
The effort, focused on top career government officials who aren’t appointees within the political structure, has stunned democracy experts and shocked the civil service community in what they compare with the red scare of McCarthyism.
Jacqueline Simon, policy director at the American Federation of Government Employees, said the language being used — the Heritage Foundation’s announcement praised the group for ferreting out “anti-American bad actors” — is “shocking.”
Civil servants are often ex-military personnel and are required to take an oath to the Constitution to work for the federal government, not a loyalty test to a president, she and others said.
“It just seems as though their goal is to try to menace federal employees and sow fear,” said Simon, whose union backs President Joe Biden, a Democrat, for reelection.
Shocking??? No, what’s shocking is how leftist groups have already been working behind the scenes to try and get officials in the Defense Department to disobey and mutiny against a future Trump presidency. It’s these groups who are trying to destroy democracy.
The actions of American Accountability Foundation to identify these leftist operatives is simply a response to what these leftist groups are doing. It’s a ‘self-defense’ measure against an authoritarian attack on Trump’s future administration and it must be done.
So kudos to Heritage for making this happen and I look forward to seeing the results of this investigation.