Politico Panics: Trump Set to Unleash "Shock and Awe" Executive Orders

Hello, everyone. It's the last week of the Biden Usurpation.

Aww. Is this like Joe Biden tyrannically changing the actual law at his whim, or just rolling back Joe Biden's executive orders?

resident-elect Donald Trump will issue "a blizzard of executive orders" as soon as he inaugurated Jan. 20, Sen. John Barrasso predicted Sunday.

Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," the Wyoming Republican said: "When President Trump takes office next Monday, there is going to be shock and awe with executive orders. A blizzard of executive orders on the economy, as well as on the border."

Executive orders, for better or worse, allow a president to bypass Congress. But Barrasso, the new Senate majority whip, said that he expects Trump to also rely on the narrow Republican majority in the Senate and even more slender one in the House to get his agenda enacted.

"When we met with President Trump earlier this past week," he told host Margaret Brennan, "what President Trump said the No. 1 goal for the Senate needs to be to get his team in place. I've met with just about all of them. I support every one of these nominees. As the whip, my job is to make sure they get across the finish line. Get on the job, and President Trump deserves a team early."

Meanwhile, the incoming National Security Advisor wants the entire current staff to submit their resignations by 12 noon on January 20.

He wants them physically out of the offices by 12:01 PM, too.

Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Breitbart News exclusively that every intelligence official from the various departments and agencies across the federal government currently detailed to the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House under outgoing President Joe Biden will be expected to vacate the premises by 12:01 p.m. Eastern Time on Inauguration Day when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated again.

Waltz, in a phone interview earlier this week, told Breitbart News that he is making sure everyone understands that it's "crystal clear what the agenda is."

"Everybody is going to resign at 12:01 on January 20," Waltz said. "We're working through our process to get everybody their clearances and through the transition process now. Our folks know who we want out in the agencies, we're putting those requests in, and in terms of the detailees they're all going to go back."

The way the NSC works is the National Security Advisor oversees a team of political appointees from the president who oversee a wide range of what are called "detailees"--people who work at the various agencies and departments across the federal government who are assigned, or detailed, to work at the White House for a period of time on the NSC in a portfolio in which they demonstrate expertise. These career intelligence officials come from places as wide-ranging as the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Pentagon, and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and report up to the political appointees atop each major portfolio in the NSC. The NSC has various issue-specific portfolios like counterterrorism and cyber policy as well as regional portfolios focused on things like the western hemisphere or the Middle East or Europe or Asia. The detailees then help coordinate back to the various agencies and departments so the whole federal government executes on the decisions that the president makes.

One of the major problems Trump faced in his first term came from inside the NSC with some of these detailees, as the person who spearheaded the first impeachment of Trump--Alexander Vindman--was one such person. Waltz told Breitbart News that he is taking very serious steps to ensure that there are no more Vindmans. From this point forward, he said, anyone who gets a detailee position on the NSC will be on board with the president's agenda.

"The issue with Vindman wasn't during transition--the issue with Vindman was he was already slated to transfer but didn't come in until the summer or fall after," Waltz said. "So that's one, number two--the folks that we're bringing in are 100 percent aligned with the president's agenda. Hell, the entire world seems to be aligned with his agenda if you just look at the outreach from world leaders and everybody who wants to come to Mar-a-Lago. So, there's a little bit of a difference in that everybody was reflexively just against him [the first time] just for the sake of it and the Trump Derangement Syndrome was out of control in 2017. Now, after seeing and feeling four years of progressive governance under Biden and seeing the world come unglued, we're not even seeing the levels of resistance to his agenda--that's just a broader point. But also the folks we're bringing in, the key members of my team, have relationships out in these agencies and we know who is completely on board."

More from Breitbart's Matthew Boyle at the link. Interestingly, Waltz says he's considering a new way to combat Russian and Chinese hacker operations against the US: Going on offense and unleashing our own hackers against Russia and China until they are deterred from further cyber attacks.

The criminal Christopher Wray will be out before Trump's in office.

In somewhat-related news, lawyer and director of the Article III Project Mike Davis has a "dark warning" for the criminal prosecutors and judges who have unleashed lawfare on their political opponents:

posted by Ace at 12:15 PM

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