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Salon
Salon
Politics
Nicholas Liu

UNCOVERED: Trump ally compiling dc purge list | History Defined

Longtime GOP operative Tom Jones is investigating dozens of federal employees suspected of opposing Donald Trump's policies as part of a larger, coordinated project by MAGA-aligned groups to reshape the government into a tool for right-wing causes.

According to an Associated Press report, Jones and his American Accountability Foundation (AAF) are using a $100,000 grant from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to ferret through the backgrounds, social media activity and past political statements of high-ranking government workers, starting with the Department of Homeland Security. Once the operatives have collected a list of problematic employees, they plan to publish 100 names online to demonstrate who might stand in the way of a second-term Trump agenda, and expose them to scrutiny, harassment, reassignments, and firings.

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