A Moment Of Clarity: The DOJ’s Secret Purge: Why 200+ Fired Prosecutors Should Alarm Every American
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
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What happens when the Department of Justice stops representing you and starts representing only the White House? We are witnessing a systemic dismantling of the independence that once defined our legal institutions. For decades, the DOJ and FBI relied on "norms" rather than laws to remain non-partisan—but norms can be changed by whoever is in charge. Michael Steele dives into the mass firing of over 200 veteran federal prosecutors and the rise of "in-house counsel" loyalists within the halls of justice.
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| 0:00.0 | And now for a moment of clarity. |
| 0:05.0 | In the late 70s, when a lot of the FBI and DOJ's excesses came to light, and there were a series of congressional hearings, most famously in the Senate, but also a couple in the House, that led to massive reforms as to how the FBI and DOJ did its business. |
| 0:23.9 | But very few of those reforms, with the exceptions of some restraints on the intelligence |
| 0:30.0 | community and the activities that the FBI did in terms of national security, very few of |
| 0:36.1 | those reforms were written into law. |
| 0:38.1 | Most of them became matters of policy and departmental norms. And the problems with policies |
| 0:44.0 | and norms is that they could be changed by any incumbent who comes along. So we are quickly seeing |
| 0:50.4 | that when you have people like Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche and before them, Emil Bovey, |
| 0:56.7 | who view their job not as to represent the people of the United States as every federal prosecutor |
| 1:04.2 | states when they stand up in court, but rather to represent the White House, you no longer have a |
| 1:10.5 | building full of public servants. |
| 1:13.1 | You have a building of in-house counsel. |
| 1:15.4 | And that is not what the country needs, |
| 1:18.4 | and it is not what the executive branch's |
| 1:20.6 | oath to the Constitution requires. |
| 1:23.1 | Well, let's just talk about the fact that why we have |
| 1:26.9 | a building full of in-house counsel |
| 1:30.3 | is because the idiots that are running the department keep firing all of the public servants. |
| 1:36.3 | And this is Todd Blanche, bragging about firing 200 prosecutors at CPAC back just a week ago, March 26th. |
| 1:45.7 | Let's take a listen. |
| 1:48.2 | I represented President Trump in the Manhattan DA case and in Jack Smith's prosecutions. |
| 1:53.8 | There is not a single man or woman at the Department of Justice |
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