by WorldTribune Staff, November 11, 2024 Contract With Our Readers
In our nation's capital, aka "The Swamp" there are lots of power hubs, but one towers over all the rest.
On the awe-inspiring seventh floor of the building situated at 935 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., "shellshocked" feds are getting their resumes (and possibly passports) in order.
No one's job in the FBI at a GS-14 (General Schedule government jobs have 15 grades) level or higher is seen as safe after President Donald Trump begins his second term.
They fully expect Trump to “smash the place to pieces when he gets in,” and that it will be a “bloodbath,” Kerry Pickett reported for The Washington Times on Thursday, citing bureau sources.
FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Director Paul Abbate will probably be the first to go.
“It’s a countdown for Wray because [people here] don’t think he will stay to get fired after what Trump did to Comey,” an FBI source told Pickett. “Trump will say, 'Yeah, fire his ass. Don’t let him take the plane home,' ” a reference to Comey finding out about his termination while flying to California on the bureau’s airplane.
Other employees on the 7th floor at FBI headquarters, said to be "stunned" and "shellshocked" over Trump's landslide victory over Kamala Harris, "are so concerned about their own jobs that they are likely to flood the Washington, D.C., private security job market, sources say," Pickett wrote.
Then there are those on the 7th floor at FBI HQ who are likely quaking in their boots over Elon Musk being brought into the new Trump administration as head of a government efficiency commission.
“When he tries to do efficiency at headquarters, the place is going to have five people … if he’s talking about a lot of dead weight,” Pickett cited an FBI source as saying.
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“Try to find a person that’s actually working,” the source said. “That may be the biggest problem there—that there’s no efficiency. So that’s actually the bigger threat. If you’re going to try to make the government efficient, you would start with the FBI, because if you do politics all the time, you’re probably bloated.”
Since Jan. 20, 2021, FBI agents spent a large chunk of their time during the Biden-Harris administration tracking down and arresting Jan. 6 defendants.
A third FBI source told Pickett that some bureau personnel who are tired of the J6 investigations are amused “at the fact that Trump [likely] pardons everybody involved Jan. 6.”
So what will be the seen on the 7th floor at 935 Pennsylvania Ave. on Jan. 20, 2025?
“You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?” an FBI source said, referring to the agency’s physical fitness requirements. “Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door.”
