The establishment media, desperate to shield the corrupt system, spins a narrative: the Trump administration must rely on so-called career public servants to govern effectively. These career public servants—government employees in non-elected, professional roles, often entrenched for decades—hold significant sway in agencies like the FBI and State Department, supposedly ensuring stability with their “institutional knowledge.”
Nicolle Wallace, the establishment’s loyal mouthpiece, pushes this predictable narrative on her two-hour MSNBC show. She claims the Trump administration’s removal of these career public servants makes America less safe and destabilizes government. To bolster her case, she reads from a New York Times article and brings on NBC News justice reporter Ryan Reilly, Democrat Claire McCaskill, and ex-CIA chief John Brennan to echo the narrative. Just days ago, Jen Psaki, on her own MSNBC show said, “Everywhere you look in the Trump administration, there is somebody learning the same lesson that real government and real governing requires…you to trust the dedicated career public servants who literally spend their lives making the government run smoothly…”
But these unelected employees are far from neutral stewards. Wielding massive influence in agencies like the State Department and FBI, they prioritize job security, power, institutional loyalty, and politics to keep the corrupt system in control. For decades, they’ve obstructed elected officials’ agendas, leaked sensitive information to undermine administrations they oppose, and perpetuated a self-serving system that resists reform. This is the swamp we voted to drain. Their removal brings accountability, upholds the voters’ mandate, and frees us from the corrupt machine—not chaos.
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Nicolle Wallace: Seems that the current leadership of the FBI is finding out that leading the nation’s top law enforcement agency requires 12 hour days and hard work, is something that requires institutional knowledge as well, and relying on experts and expertise from career public servants that fill the bureau. But FBI Director Cash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who you just saw in the interview there, are taking the opposite approach. New reporting in the New York Times reveals that their actions are intensifying the unease inside the FBI.
According to that reporting, quote, agents have been forced out, others have been demoted or put on leave, and with no explanation. In an effort to hunt down the sources of news leaks, Patel is forcing employees to take polygraph tests. It is leaving employees to, quote, wonder whether they too will be ousted, either because they worked on an investigation vilified by Trump supporters or had ties to the previous administration. All this could have enormous consequences for the agency tasked with keeping all Americans safe.
The New York Times reports that Patel and Bongino have quote obliterated decades of experience in national security and criminal matters at the FBI and raise questions about whether the agents taking over such critical posts have the institutional knowledge to pursue cornerstones of its work.
Joining our coverage, NBC News justice reporter Ryan Reilly, plus former CIA director, now MSNBC Senior National Security Analyst John Brennan, and former democratic senator, MSNBC political analyst Claire McCaskill is here, um, Ryan Reilly, add your reporting to what we’re learning from this New York Times piece….
Wallace and her fake news allies fiercely defend the establishment—it is literally their job. They obstruct reform and the people’s will, cashing checks to push the lie that removing career public servants threatens America’s security and stops the system from running smoothly.
#DrainTheSwamp