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Tom of Temecula

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Sun Jun 30, 2024, 10:34 PM Jun 30

Trump-aligned 'smear machine' ramping up plan to vilify government workers by name [View all]

With an announcement on X earlier this week, "WE ARE DECLARING WAR ON THE DEEP STATE,” a conservative project aligned with both Donald Trump and Project 2025 — which is creating a roadmap to gut the government if Trump is re-elected — is preparing to "name and shame" civil servants they believe won't be loyal to the now convicted felon ex-president.

According to a report from the Guardian, with financial assistance from the Heritage Foundation, "Project Sovereignty 2025" is going to make life miserable for government workers who will likely face threats of violence as accusations fly with their names attached.

"The group behind the list is the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), which was founded in 2020 and describes its mission as 'working non-stop to expose the left’s secrets and hold Biden accountable'" reports the Guardian's Tess Owen, while also noting a profile by the New Yorker labeled AFF a "slime machine”.

As Owen explained, AAF is moving past blocking President Joe Biden's political appointments to harass civil servants, with a "plan to publish dossiers on those non-public facing individuals, starting with the Department of Homeland Security, and expose them to scrutiny." The American Federation of Government Employees is waving red flags about the oncoming onslaught, calling it "an intimidation tactic to try to menace federal workers and sow fear”.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-project-2025-2668649429/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/30/trump-loyalists-deep-state-blacklist-american-accountability-foundation

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