Trump to fire Biden appointees

 DC Daily Journal:

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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.

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I don't think did that in his first term, but it makes sense that he would not want Biden appointees attempting to throttle his agenda.  Biden has been one of the worst presidents in US history  and Trump likely has a team that is ready to take over this go round.

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