Oh, no. The Justice Department has thousands fewer lawyers now than it did when President Donald Trump began his second term. And of course, The New York Times – in its latest Trump-Deranged hit piece – says that should worry the heck out of you.
Supposedly the exodus is leaving the DOJ unprepared and understaffed – as if most Americans think fewer lawyers is a bad thing.
The Times piece doesn’t tell you that many of these loser left-wing legal eagles debased themselves during the Joe Biden/Merrick Garland weaponization of the DOJ. The fact that they’re gone now is a good thing.
Well….bye.
Here’s what should worry you, the Times supposes:
President Trump’s upheaval of the federal government has led to an exodus of more than 10,000 lawyers since the beginning of 2025, a striking loss of legal talent that has left some agencies pushing to find attorneys to carry out his agenda.
Roughly one in five lawyers who worked in the government at the end of 2024 had left by March of this year, according to a New York Times analysis of federal employment data.
Did you catch that? The lawyers are resigning because, Heaven’s sake, they don’t agree with Trump’s “agenda.” Why is their leaving a bad thing, then?
Well, Trump doesn’t think it is. In fact, he’s all for it, as he noted in a Truth Social post in response to the Times’ hit piece:
The New York Times wrote a story today entitled, “Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent,” as though that’s a bad thing, when actually, it’s very good. The people that are leaving are Radical Left Deep State Lunatics, who are destroying our Country, and Weaponizing Government. Many of them didn’t leave, but were fired! The Failing New York Times writes this, but makes it sound like it’s a terrible thing when actually, it’s just the opposite.
We want people that will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, not people that are trying to destroy our Country, that were put in by Obama and Biden and, in many cases, they shouldn’t have been representing the U.S.A. in the first place. Let them go on to “bigger, better, and brighter” things in the future — I fully support that, and wish them all well!
Now look. We do need lawyers, naturally. They are allegedly people, too. But we don’t need a bunch of deep-state, Trump-deranged leftists undermining the duly elected president’s agenda. We saw enough of that nonsense during Trump’s first term (why aren’t more people in prison over that, by the way?).
For the record, the Times tells us where these disaffected leftist ex-federal attorneys are going – to places where they can fight Trump:
Instead, many of those looking for such work are flocking to the offices of Democratic state attorneys general and nonprofits that are challenging administration policies in the courts, boosting Mr. Trump’s opponents with seasoned lawyers.
So, the geniuses who wrote the Times piece just proved the subjects of the story – the leftist lawyers – don’t have any business being in a Trump administration.
LOL — there is a CONTINUAL exit of "legal talent" from DOJ.
It's commonly called "lucrative private practice" and that option exists 24/7/365 for attorneys in their 30s and 40s in DOJ.
This is just dumb. https://t.co/PdkFvgcNli
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) May 31, 2026
Again, no real disrespect to lawyers reading this. We have to have you. I get it. But if you’re a left-wing legal hack working in Trump’s DOJ just waiting to sabotage him, get your stuff and get the hell out.
You’re not wanted.
