Stephen Miller’s Promotion Has Trump Goons Scrambling for Exits

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Miller was promoted last week to White House chief of staff to replace the fired Susie Wiles, who was widely viewed as a stabilizing force in Trump’s inner circle. Since then,…

DOJ officials are scrambling to leave the Trump administration in the wake of Republicans’ midterms shellacking and the promotion of Stephen Miller as chief of staff, a new report alleges.

Current and former DOJ officials tell Bloomberg Law that political appointees in the department are shopping around the private sector for career help, fearing for their future prospects in a post-Donald Trump job market.

Miller was promoted last week to White House chief of staff to replace the fired Susie Wiles, who was widely viewed as a stabilizing force in Trump’s inner circle. Since then, political appointees have begun mulling whether they should go down with a potentially sinking ship.

Miller’s “demands on day-to-day operations” have led individuals in the DOJ to seriously consider an exit route–even among staffers and officials who share his ideological aspirations, according to the Bloomberg Law report.

Reached for comment, DOJ spokeswoman Kiersten Pels told the site that a “vast majority” of appointees are proud of their work.

“The resounding truth is that the vast majority of political appointees at the Department are proud to work here,” Pels wrote. “[Appointees] have been proud to be a part of a team that has achieved the lowest crime rates across the country in generations and has delivered a record number of prosecutions on fraud, sex trafficking, violent crime, drug trafficking, and the list goes on... It may be less exciting than a clickbait headline, but it is the truth.”

Reports from last year indicate that Miller’s expectations for agenda items including immigration enforcement and “lawfare” against DEI and other initiatives were already incredibly demanding even as a deputy chief of staff.

The DOJ has already experienced an exodus of high-level officials across the country since the beginning of this month. On Monday, Brette Shumate, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Division, voluntarily resigned as his division is inundated with lawsuits against…

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