After clashes with AG's top aide, a White House liaison pushing 'loyalty' to Trump at DOJ is reassigned: Sources

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Source: ABC News

February 24, 2025, 10:04 AM


As the Trump administration continues to vet potential candidates for top posts within the Justice Department, a powerful White House intermediary has been pushing to hire candidates that exhibit what he called "exceptional loyalty" to Trump, and his efforts sparked clashes with Attorney General Pam Bondi's top aide, Chad Mizelle, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

The White House intermediary, Paul Ingrassia, complained directly to Trump about Mizelle, the Justice Department's chief of staff, and suggested to the president that Mizelle is hurting Trump's political agenda, sources said. Ingrassia has since been reassigned to work with the Department of Homeland Security, a White House official familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Trump was reelected in November after promising to rid the Justice Department of what he alleged was political bias tainting federal law enforcement. Bondi has echoed that rhetoric, issuing a directive within hours of taking office to establish a "Weaponization Working Group" that she said would review all of the "politicized" investigations previously targeting Trump.

According to Ingrassia's LinkedIn page, he became "President Trump's White House Liaison for DOJ" in January. In private, to White House colleagues, he described himself as Trump's "eyes and ears" at the Justice Department, with significant authority to help interview and select candidates for senior and lower-level positions, sources said.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Zampolit Ingrassia.

[Leghorn21]

3. Ah, nothing like a nice hot cup of INTERNECINE WARFARE on a cold Monday afternoon!

KEEP IT UP, CRYBABIES!!

——— every little fracture counts, my friends ———-

[tanyev]

4. "Yes, that's a prosthetic backside. Yes, I need to assess how effective your kissing technique is."

“The fact that you are questioning me on this has just disqualified you from any White House job.”

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

5. Protecting her territory?

Pam Bondi seems to be one of his few appointees with actual relevant government experience for her job. Not saying she is good, just somewhat less unqualified than the others.

This means she has run an AG's office (in Florida) and has some clue as to how she should be setting it up as her own fiefdom at the DOJ. I would imagine while she would take whatever the president gave out personally, she might well be less accepting of micromanagement/interference by his other minions.

I would imagine she sees herself as near the top of the flunky pyramid and would be protective of her perceived prerogatives.

She might slowly move the DOJ back towards a sort of self-interested independence if she can help keep the president distracted elsewhere or mollified with sufficient instances of petty revenge.

I do not like her. But I see her as having the potential of being a minor drag on the Regime's desperate dive down the oubliette of malevolence and ignorance. If only because she does not want to see herself dragged down with it while she reaps whatever personal benefits she can as she circles the drain.

But that might just be me.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The "problem"

will inevitably end up within the U.S. Attorneys' offices, where apparently some are now (and probably in the future as new ones get nominated) carving out their OWN "fiefdoms, territories, and power structures" - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143403814