Deep State Sounds the ALARM as Trump Gears Up to AXE Several White House Leakers
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Heads are going to roll in D.C. and the Deep State is panicking!
Reports are circulating that President Trump is gearing up to fire several people in the administration suspected of leaking.
President Donald Trump is prepared to fire several people in the administration due to past leaks to the media, according to one source within the administration and another source very familiar with the matter who both spoke with IJR.
While neither source could pinpoint a time frame for when the decision would be made due to Trump ultimately being the deciding factor, they were both confident that a cleansing was coming.
“There is a lot of chatter that people are going to get axed,” the source familiar with the matter said.
IJR reached out to the White House on the matter but had not heard back at the time of publication.
The news comes just after Trump signed an executive order on Friday to roll back civil service protections, making it easier to fire federal employees. The order instructs the Office of Personnel Management to change the length of performance improvement time periods from between 60 and 120 days to just 30 days. During performance improvement periods, workers are protected from being fired.
The administration under Trump has had consistent issues with leakers. Earlier in May, The Hill released a report detailing an internal meeting with two dozen communications staffers where communications aide Kelly Sadler made a joke about Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) “dying.”
ABC News reported shortly after that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told her staff that Sadler’s comment was “unacceptable” but appeared to be more upset by the fact that details of the meeting were leaked.
Trump took aim at the leakers on Twitter, calling them “traitors and cowards” just after the report on Sadler was released.
“We will find out who they are!” he added.
Axios dove into the minds of the “most prolific leakers” and released a report titled, “White House leakers leak about leaking.” One source explained that leaks are most often due to “the result of someone losing an internal policy debate,” while another prominent leaker explained that there are two categories of leakers — those who have “personal vendettas” and those aiming to provide “an accurate record of what’s really going on in the White House.”