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Trump ‘Reassigns’ DOJ Official Who Pushed for Mar-a-Lago Raid

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President Donald Trump has “reassigned” several career Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to less influential positions, according to a new report.

Among those DOJ operatives is one high-ranking official who pushed for the shocking FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

The Washington Post reported that at least 15 high-ranking DOJ officials have been “reassigned” to low-profile roles.

The shuffle is part of Trump’s promised overhaul of the DOJ and his effort to end the weaponization of government.

To work around legal protections for career employees, the officials were reassigned, rather than fired, the Post reported.

These individuals could decide to resign rather than accept being moved to less desirable posts.

The reassignments reflect Trump’s desire to shift the DOJ’s focus away from politics and toward national priorities, like immigration enforcement.

As an example of that, Deputy Assistant Attorney General George Toscas was moved to Trump’s newly created Office of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement.

Toscas, a veteran of the DOJ’s national security division, played a crucial role in orchestrating the FBI’s controversial raid of Trump’s home in 2022.

At the time, there was initial disagreement between the FBI and DOJ about whether a raid was justified.

Toscas chewed out FBI officials who supported a voluntary search, telling them he did not “give a damn about the optics” of raiding a former president’s home.

“You and your leadership seem to have gone from cautious to fearful,” Toscas reportedly wrote in an email to the former head of the FBI Washington Field Office, Steven D’Antuono.

Toscas also told D’Antuono that he was “way out of line on substance and form” for opposing the raid.

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