Bondi fires Justice Department employee for gesturing at National Guard
By Jasper Ward
Washington (Reuters) -Uus Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi fired an official of the Ministry of Justice for the National Guard members deployed to the Washington DC on the way to work on the way to work.
Employee Elizabeth Baxter was an illegal in the Environmental Defense Department of the department, according to a note published by the New York Post, who first reported to dismiss.
“Based on your inappropriate behavior towards the members of the National Guard Service, your employment will be terminated and you will immediately remove the federal service.”
Doj spokesman Chad Gilmartin shared the story on X and confirmed the reporting. “Very simple: If you do not support law enforcement officers, @agpamboni’s doj may not be a good harmony.”
Reuters immediately did not contact the Baxter, who immediately said that the New York Post had lifted his middle finger and that he said swelling of the national guard members on August 18, and then underestimated the troops.
This month, President Donald Trump deployed hundreds of national guards to the streets of Washington, declared a crime emergency, and a temporary federal seized the city’s police department.
In June, the Republican Trump ordered Los Angeles to send troops and federal authorities to Chicago against the requests of the democratic governors of California and Illinois.
The President described the country’s capital as a city -shaking in a crime, but the Ministry of Justice’s data shows that it has reached the lowest level of 30 years in Washington, a self -governing federal region under the authority of the Congress.
The US government also sent agencies to patrol the streets of the capital from a large number of agents, including FBI.
Following a legal challenge by the Chief Public Prosecutor of the City, the Trump administration made an agreement with Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser to keep Police Chief Pamela Smith responsible for the operations of the department.
While some of the national guards, including the Democrats criticized the placement movement for the capital, Trump and allies pointed to the crime in the region to show the success of the deployment.
“DC will be much faster than planned in just 14 days, in just 14 days,” Trump on Thursday. “
(Reporting by Jasper Ward; Editing by William Mallard)
