Big-time bureaucrats in the nation’s capital are sweating bullets. They know their time is coming to an end.
And now the D.C. Swamp is in hysterics over Trump’s latest legal victory.
President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House armed with a powerful legal precedent that allows him to clean house and fire every Biden appointee on day one.
Trump has none other than the Biden administration to thank for handing him this legal tool — and the irony isn’t lost on former Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
“They’ll have no one to blame but Biden himself,” Spicer told Secrets.
The story goes back to September 8, 2021, when President Joe Biden aggressively purged Trump allies from visitor boards at military academies, including the Navy, Air Force, and Army.
Among those unceremoniously ousted were Spicer, Russ Vought — recently tapped by Trump to lead the Office of Management and Budget — and former Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway.
Despite being in the middle of their congressionally mandated three-year terms, Biden tossed them out without hesitation.
Spicer and Vought fought back, taking their case to court. Their argument was simple: unlike at-will White House staff, appointees with fixed terms could not be arbitrarily removed by a new president.
The courts, however, ruled in Biden’s favor. A judge affirmed that the president has the absolute authority to fire any presidential appointee, term or no term. While Spicer and Vought lost the battle, they had their eyes on a much bigger prize: paving the way for a future Trump administration to fire Biden’s appointees without obstruction.
“What no one ever understood was this was not about actually getting back on the board, because my term had been expired for months,” Spicer explained.
“It was forcing them to argue in the affirmative that they had the ultimate authority to fire anybody at any time, which they did. And the court accepted that. So the Biden administration is now on record in court, and the court agreed that the president had absolute authority to fire anyone he wants.”
In other words, Spicer helped set the trap that Biden walked into — and now Trump will use it to his advantage.
“The whole point is now, on day one, President Trump can go in and fire everyone and say it was the Biden folks who told us that we could do this,” Spicer added.
For Trump and his incoming administration, this ruling is a game-changer.
Biden’s weaponized purge of Trump appointees has backfired spectacularly, leaving Trump with the legal upper hand to build a loyal team from the ground up and swiftly dismantle Biden’s bloated bureaucracy.
With the precedent set, President Trump will be fully equipped to clean house and bring accountability back to Washington — just as he’s promised the American people.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
